Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
My senryu “Zoom Chat” appears in the fifth issue of the journal Leaf, edited by Ravi Kiran, on page 81. This issue got published on November 30, 2024. The poem is about accidentally frightening my great-niece when I wore my…
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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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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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