They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku is a new anthology of poems in English about parents. The editor is Robert Epstein, and the publisher is Middle Island Press of West Union, West Virginia.  They Gave Us Life includes three poems by Janet Ruth Heller:  “Dad’s Yahrzeit,” “Bald Eagle,” and “Bird Bingo.”  The first two poems are haiku about my father, and the third poem is a double tanka about my mother.

They Gave Us Life is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/They-Gave-Us-Life-Celebrating/dp/0998073296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509294891&sr=8-1&keywords=epstein+they+gave+us+life