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The Lothlorien Poetry Journal has published ten tanka poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Author: Janet Ruth Heller November 9, 2024 0 Comments

The Lothlorien Poetry Journal edited by Strider Marcus Jones just published ten of my tanka poems. The link is https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/11/ten-tanka-poems-by-janet-ruth-heller.html Tanka resemble haiku, but tanka are five lines long, so there is more room to develop ideas. I have been…
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Gargoyle Magazine published “Communication”

Author: Janet Ruth Heller October 21, 2024

My poem “Communication” just got published in Gargoyle Magazine‘s online issue #9. I wrote this poem in 1972 and am glad to have found an editor who likes it: Richard Peabody. I am grateful to the people in my writing…
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“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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