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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.
Janet Ruth Heller (How the Moon Regained Her Shape) is the President of the Michigan College English Association. She has her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Janet has taught creative writing, British and American literature, composition, literature for children, and women's studies for 40 years at various colleges and universities, including Western Michigan University, Northern Illinois University, Michigan State University, and the University of Chicago. Janet has published poems and stories in many magazines and anthologies. She is a founding mother of Primavera, a literary magazine. Her book of literary criticism, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. She has also published two books of poetry, Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012). Visit her website: http: //www.janetruthheller.com/
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