Published Poetry – Page 4 – Janet Ruth Heller

Poem about Pamela Brown Thomas of Michigan’s Underground Railroad

Author: Janet Ruth Heller September 28, 2023

Panoply literary magazine recently published my poem “Pamela Brown Thomas” in its issue 25 of September 8, 2023. My poem concerns a real woman in the 1800s who helped the Underground Railroad in Schoolcraft, Michigan, and hid African Americans trying…
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Anti-Slavery, Dramatic Monologue, literature, poetry, Underground Railroad

“Cottonwood Seeds” published in Ribbons

Author: Janet Ruth Heller July 26, 2023

My tanka poem “Cottonwood Seeds” recently appeared in Ribbons 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2023) on page 42. The Tanka Society of America publishes Ribbons, and the editor is Susan Weaver. Tanka resemble haiku, but tanka are five lines long, so this format…
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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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