Midrash/Exegesis – Janet Ruth Heller

Published Senryu Poem and Interview in Grand Rapids Magazine

Author: Janet Ruth Heller March 27, 2025 0 Comments

Recently, I published a poem and got interviewed by Ann Byle for Grand Rapids Magazine. Editor Kelly Moyer published my senryu “Quilting” in failed haiku 9, #108 (February 2025) on page 152. The link is https://failedhaiku.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/failedhaikuissue108-final-1.pdf The title of this…
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Creative Writing, Interviews, Jewish Poetry, Midrash/Exegesis, Poetry, Published Poetry, Religious Poetry, Senryu

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Interview about Nature’s Olympics in the Detroit Jewish News

Author: Janet Ruth Heller May 25, 2022

Suzanne Chessler of the Detroit Jewish News interviewed me about my new poetry book Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). She also asked about my other books. The interview appears in the current issue of the Detroit Jewish News on…
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Interviews, Midrash/Exegesis, Nature, Poetry, Published Poetry

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Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Author: Janet Ruth Heller February 3, 2020

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems “Leah,” “Lot’s Wife,” and “Yiftach’s Daughter.” Her article “Modernizing Leah” discusses many…
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