Psychological Issues – Janet Ruth Heller

Frameless Sky issue on the theme of family

Author: Janet Ruth Heller July 12, 2023

Frameless Sky 18 published my senryu poem “Black Sheep” online in late June, 2023. This is a special issue on the theme of family. The guest editor is Vandana Parashar. Senryu differ from haiku because senryu poems are about people, while haiku…
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Family, Literary Magazines, Poetry, Psychological Issues, Published Poetry, Senryu

Family, literary journals, poetry, senryu

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Author: Janet Ruth Heller October 20, 2022

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with…
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Creative Writing, Heaven's Gate Cult, Literary Magazines, Literature, Love, mental health, Poetry, Psychological Issues, Published Poetry, Senryu, Suicide

Heaven's Gate Cult, Literary Magazines, love, poetry, senryu, suicide

How the Moon Regained Her Shape on SCBWI’s Reading List for books for children about mental health

Author: Janet Ruth Heller May 7, 2022

My award-winning fiction picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018), is on the May 2022 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Reading List on the theme of Mental Health Awareness. See…
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Bullying, Children's Literature, Listings in Encyclopedias and Other Platforms, Literature, mental health, Picture Book, Psychological Issues, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

bullying, children's literature, mental health, picture book, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators