by Janet Ruth Heller (Author)
Nature's Olympics offers concise poems about the natural world, including plants, animals, and birds. This book focuses on the flora and fauna of the Midwest. Nature's Olympics has four sections dedicated to the different seasons: summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Poetic forms include haiku, tanka, sonnets, and free verse. The poems in Nature's Olympics concern both wilderness areas and cities and show that the natural world inspires insight into human life. Readers will find the poems accessible.
Author Biography
Janet Ruth Heller is president of the Michigan College English Association and has taught literature, creative writing, linguistics, and women's studies. She wrote the poetry books Exodus, Folk Concert: Changing Times, and Traffic Stop and the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama. Fictive Press published Heller's middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry, The Passover Surprise. Her children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, has won four national awards.