2012 Pushcart Prize Nominee Examines Womanhood in Changing Times

Portage, MI, July 13, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Folk Concert: Changing Times concerns the journey of becoming a woman during difficult times. 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. The powerful understatement of these rich, precise poems swells and reverberates. They sing with political commitment, emotional commitment, and a lifetime of paying attention.” –Jim Daniels, author of Trigger Man and Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry

“Janet Ruth Heller’s poems in Folk Concert: Changing Times work hard for clarity. They feel like clear water, but they have the cumulative power of a summer storm. 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). She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Janet is a former president of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the current president of the Michigan College English Association. Janet lives in Portage, Michigan, with her husband, and her hobbies include hiking, singing, and bird-watching.

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Anaphora Literary Press is an independent publisher that has published dozens of creative and non-fiction books. Among these publications is the tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal, which has published such best-selling authors as Cinda Williams Chima and Carrie Ryan. The Press is a member of The Independent Book Publishers Association and The Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Anapahora Literary Press authors have done readings at major venues, while several titles have been assigned in college courses and reviewed in major academic, trade, and news publications. The Press’ Director, Dr. Anna Faktorovich, is an English professor.