2012 Pushcart Prize Nominee Examines Womanhood in Changing Times
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Portage, MI, July 13, 2013 --( ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-26-8, 6X9″, LCCN#: 2012939912, 90pp) “Folk Concert: Changing Times, by Janet Ruth Heller, captures small everyday moments with matter-of-fact grace and humor.Her family and nature poems are particularly moving.” –Marge Piercy, author of The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2010, Circles on the Water: New and Selected Poems 1960-1980, and The Moon is Always Female Janet Ruth Heller has published the poetry chapbook Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011), the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990), and the award-winning children’s picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Sylvan Dell, 2006).Themes include feminism, love, relationships, teaching college, nature, psychotherapy, travel, the anti-Vietnam War movement, family, the life of an artist/entertainer/writer, and music.A nominee for the 2012 Pushcart Prize, this collection of poetry was also used as a textbook in Penelope Stickney’s “Introduction to Poetry” course for the Kankakee Community College Fall 2012 semester.($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-26-8, 6X9″, LCCN#: 2012939912, 90pp)“Folk Concert: Changing Times, by Janet Ruth Heller, captures small everyday moments with matter-of-fact grace and humor.