Poetry Available Online

After 60 years - page 1

An Entire Life

Blessing

Box of Rocks - page 2

Boy - page 6

Button Jar - page 5

Castle Rock, Kansas

Front Windows

I won't knock on your door

Inches

Kansas August Evening

Kansas Rides

My Good Intention - page 4

On a Chilled Wind

One More Thing

Slipped Under Your Door

thawing

The Family Farmhouse

there is a place

To the Stars Through Difficulty - Section 80

What I meant when I said, "I'll remember you"

What Once Was

What You Left Behind

When the Words Come They Feel Like a Blessing

Wombs

Poetry Jam 2023

 Had a great time participating, listening, and presenting the Poetry Jam this year!  

I got to talk about line breaks in free verse poetry.  It's one of my favorite topics because wielding line breaks with intent can have such a strong effect in a piece of writing.  

I met many new poets in the area from all different levels of experience and even got the chance to exchange books!  I am looking forward to next year's event.

Publications 2022-2024

Chiron Review - March 2025

• As Untouchable as Tuesday
• Doubling

Johnson Country Library Writer's Conference Notebook Vol 7 - 2024

• Book Lover 

To Be Completely Honest, Anthology - 2024

• Body
• My Body Is A Temple
• When I Dyed My Hair

Kansas City Voices Literary Magazine - 2024

• I Eat
• When I Say

Johnson County Public Library Poetry Walk - April 2024

• Changing Seasons 

Johnson County Public Library Monthly Contest Winner  - February 2024

• What I meant when I said "I'll remember you"

eMerge Magazine:  https://emerge-writerscolony.org/ 

• Winter 2022: One More Thing
• Spring 2022: The Family Farmhouse, Blessing
• Summer 2022: Slipped Under Your Door, What You Left Behind, Wombs

The Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow - Eureka Springs, Arkansas

 A friend of mine made it possible for me to spend a week in this truly magical place!  I am very lucky and blessed and in case you didn't know about The Writer's Colony, I wanted to spread the word!

https://www.writerscolony.org/ 

Publications 2019-2021

I-70 Review

Witness Marks

Fall 2021

Interpretations.  Columbia Art League Sponsor

Seashell

What I'm trying to say is that when you come into the room

August 2021

MockingHeart Review

I Won't Knock on Your Door

https://mockingheartreview.com/volume-6-issue-2/poetry/jamie-lynn-heller/

June 2021

Life in My Lane: April is National Poetry Month - Will You Give Poetry a Chance? by Annie Newcomer

When the Words Come, They Feel Like a Blessing

https://www.flapperpress.com/post/life-in-my-lane-april-national-poetry-month-will-you-give-poetry-a-chance

April 2021

Johnson Country Public Library Poetry Walk and Writer's Blog

Front Windows

April 2021

Johnson Country Library Writer's Conference Notebook

I Turned My Father into a Puppet

November 2021

Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from around the World

Seashell

https://poetvjha.wordpress.com/2019/06/21/universal-oneness-an-anthology-of-magnum-opus-poems-from-around-the-world/

June 2019

Blue City Poets

Controlled Burn 

Flying Ketchup Press  https://www.flyingketchuppress.com/

April 2019

 "When the Words Come, They Feel Like a Blessing"  April 2021 Flapper Press

https://www.flapperpress.com/post/life-in-my-lane-april-national-poetry-month-will-you-give-poetry-a-chance

Thank you to Annie Newcomer for giving me the chance to contribute to this project!

 It has been awhile since I've had a chance to "get out there" and share my writing, but I've been invited to an online FB reading May 4th with SpoFest.  I'm very excited to join this community and listen to other poets.  I've found, when my writing has slowed, listening to others seems to call my own words up again.  It's always a gift to listen.

Feel free to join us May 4th 2020 at 7:00 on Facebook Live at:  FB event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/217588603460580/  

"See" you then!

J