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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grateful to have this little poem (and one other) in Waltz today, in the company of other poets whose work I love.

The cover of Birds of North America, featuring a painted bunting and indigo bunting and maybe an Eastern bluebird.

See a more accessible version here: Birds of North America - Waltz https://share.google/vYScMCx0mdsVa4z3x

Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grateful to have two poems in @theshorepoetry.bsky.social with splendid company. This little guy's about those fraught days just before the school year revs up again. Link to the whole issue in the comments.

More accessible version here: Jane Zwart "The Circus of Sons and of August" — THE SHORE https://share.google/n0SGzThPDyqm9Y4Yw

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates..." Two poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 @janezwart.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Market Forces
When there was less, it was easier to tell
a story about why there wasn’t enough.
Inside the lion’s emptiness, the zebra’s;
inside the zebra’s, the field’s; inside that,
the sky’s. In the age of sieges, you could
draw a circle around a city and, just like that,
boost the cost of flour. And doors’ futures.

In the age of abstractions, a market force
can not be demoed in dominoes. Instead
the tongues of our sneakers tell tales.
In all of them, the capital of capital
is a city impossible to besiege. It moves,
after all, all the barons and pirates
setting up shop over and over, halfway
between a zeitgeist and the latest fad.

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@janezwart.bsky.social gives us this deeply moving poem about connection, disconnection, and loss in Issue 7 with "On my 49th birthday, my dad calls me a fledging." www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-zwart-de...

because in my version of the past, impossible things: trains pulls up to porches every time we set suitcases down.

Curving train tracks intersecting over a blurred backgroun of foliage and street.

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@janezwart.bsky.social from Rattle 29, Summer 2008 Read the full poem: Rattle.com/the-perishable-by-jane-zwart #poetry

"'grief being a lozenge that sticks in the throat/and tastes like earth and does not melt' Jane Zwart from 'The Perishable'"

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Grateful, as always, to have a book review in Plume--this time of @kathyfagan.bsky.social's latest beauty, The Unbecoming. (Link in first comment.)

Cover of Kathy Fagan's poetry collection, The Unbecoming.
Mostly black, with a window, a woman at its left edge, looking out at a street that's also reflected in the glass.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thank you to the lovelies at Painted Bride Quarterly for making a spot for two of my poems in the latest issue (link to the whole thing in comments). Here's one:

Byt in elementary school classroom, intent on a bluesheet but also wearing a puffy red wig with horns protruding from both sides.

For a more accessible version: https://pbqmag.org/jane-zwart-i-steal-from-children/

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thank you to the dear ones at Rattle for giving this poem another turn around the room.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so full of gratitude to Emily Updegraff & Great Lakes Review for making space for this interview about Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best (see first link). And here's a photo of a small treasure from this weekend, which I spent near Lake Michigan:

A very small Petoskey stone in a woman's hand. The cover of her book is almost (?) maybe (?) recognizable in the background.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thank you to @erinmurphy.bsky.social and Summerset Review for giving my book a little more flight.

For an accessible version: https://www.summersetreview.org/26summer/reviews.html

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Update: We pushed publication to Feb. 2027. While you wait, I recommend the new books from @ralpheeboi.bsky.social, @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @clairemtaylor.com, @mrdecember.bsky.social, and soooo many more but those 5 are in a stack right in front of me.

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Next to my favorite reading chair this week: Severalty by Laura Da’ and Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best by Jane Zwart. These gorgeous collections concern different kinds of grief in wildly, powerfully metamorphic language. @janezwart.bsky.social

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This site is one of the most beautiful things on the internet. Every time you load it, it loads a new letter written by someone who cares and who wants you to stick around. Please share, and please write a letter if you feel called to do so. www.reasonstostay.co.uk?utm_source=i...

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Reasons to Stay - Mental Health

Reasons to Stay is a suicide prevention project reaching people at difficult moments through anonymous letters written by volunteers. Each letter on this site was written by a real person and delivere...

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thank you to the folks who make @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for giving this one a little extra flight. Head over to the site (first link) if you want me to read it to you.

More accessible version here: https://www.rattle.com/the-island-of-the-day-before-by-jane-zwart

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Writing about Holy the Body by @donovanmcabee.bsky.social for Plume Poetry was all gift: plumepoetry.com/jane-zwart-r...

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Read 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘, an in-depth #interview with 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 @janezwart.bsky.social. Jane is speaking to 𝐖.𝐉. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 @wjherbertpoet.bsky.social about her new poetry collection 𝑂𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 & 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 & 𝑆𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 & 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #writingcommunity

Amsterdam Review Spring 2026 Interview

Jane Zwart: Harvest in the Dark. An interview by W.J. Herbert.

"As for poems, they keep me tender. Because it makes me less lonely, across all the particulars of love as it manifests in the world and in words, poetry makes me trust my heart enough to open it."

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Beautiful poem from @janezwart.bsky.social

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think Ecotone is a beauty, which makes having this poem featured there all the sweeter. 🌖

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm wildly lucky in my poetry kin, and I feel so grateful to have this interview with the amazing @amitmajmudar.bsky.social in The Marginalia Review. Thank you to the editors & to any of your dear ones who opt to read this conversation. Link in first comment.

For a more accessible version of this quote & the interview as a whole:
https://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/poems-as-children-of-the-moment-jane-zwart-interviewed-by-amit-majmudar

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Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today, to honour National Caregivers Month in Canada, a poem by @janezwart.bsky.social honouring all the ways we are cared for by people who become close for just a brief moment. This is from Jane's first book--Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best. www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Every once in a while, I hear a phrase that grows a whole poem. This one was like that. Thank you to @swwim.bsky.social's generous team for giving it a spot. open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Look what came in the mail 😍 And now the challenge is to finish grading before wading in...

Cover of Joanne Diaz's Electric Dress, featuring a white beautiful cog-like, tangle-like series of circles

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sheesh, sorry about that! Copying the wrong link is SO NAWPstrich, y'know? To be clear, these are both amazing poets with amazing new books! @djvorreyer.bsky.social: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri... @janezwart.bsky.social: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

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Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart Orison Bookspaper / 74 pp. / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: February 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title hints, Odde...

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Our Spring 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Jane Zwart, as well as works by Raúl Zurita, Jane Clarke, Khadijah Queen, Tom Laichas, Dian Parker, Susan Irvine, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Overwhelmed with gratitude for @wjherbertpoet.bsky.social, who asked me such brilliant, generous questions about my poems for this interview in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors there for publishing it, and for giving a couple of my poems their first homes, too. Link in comments.

Cover of Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best by Jane Zwart. In a wooden frame, with 16 nooks, a curio of strange things: glass, a marble, a nutshell, etc. Art by Joseph Cornell.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hey writing kin, I'm mailing out a short stack of signed Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bests on Friday. If you'd like one (and live in the states), I'd be honored to join your library. Message me? $22 (covers shipping, Venmo or PayPal)

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here, quick before day 1 ends, let's share one by @janezwart.bsky.social whose new book Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best is utterly incredible. I also love basketball (as you may have noticed), so here's a Jane hoops poem.

Jumper

Mostly I applaud and jealousy
is a splinter in my hand. Not
that I would call it an affliction.

Not that, if pressed, I wouldn’t
admit the words jealousy and
splinter both run wide. Nothing

stings, after all. During the ovation
for the actor who makes me wipe
my eyes, an eyelash-sized envy;

for the painter, a green bristle
from a horsehair brush. Maybe
this, too, can be explained: maybe

the whisker of our own talent
is what itches when we clap. Never,
after all, have my palms tingled

cheering the jumper. The girls
who make high dives lamellophones,
the shooting guard pedaling thin air

over the key—I laud them empty-
handed and flat-footed, the same
as any witness to unattainable grace.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's not quite Easter, but we're getting there. So with gratitude to the folks at @christiancentury.bsky.social, here's a little psalm.

In the upstairs windows of a house, posterboard with colored-in letters spelling "Hallelujah, anyway."

For a more accessible version: https://www.christiancentury.org/poetry/any-old-how

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Grist has such beautiful issues. Cool to be in it with other writers I admire like @janezwart.bsky.social (whose book just arrived yesterday) feels like ages ago I wrote this but thanks to the journal for selecting it!

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

With gratitude in abundance to the folks at North American Review:

For a more accessible version: https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/2026/jane-zwart/turn-yourself

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

(Sing in your best Phil Collins or Billy Corgan voice, you choose) Tonight, Tonight, Tonight! @dlassell.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social and Robbi Nester at 6:30 PM Central/7:30 Eastern. All killer, no filler. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Issue 3 contrib Jane Zwart has a poem on the Slowdown!

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy to see this one take another little lap. 💚

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Grateful to Lauren Goodwin Slaughter and the folks who make Nelle for giving this poem (and one other) a spot.

On the cover of the journal Nelle, a painting by Melissa Schultz-Jones. The title gives a good idea of the image, which has a pink background: "Red Prayer Flag for Alabama: Long Leaf Pine, Cockaded Woodpecker, Eastern Indigo Snake, Monarch, Pinewoods Milkweed, Gopher Tortoise, Canebreak Pitcher Plant."

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

One week from today! Register for these five incredible writers! @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social @dlassell.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social and Robbi Nester. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Poetry buddies, I'm so looking forward to hearing @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @hollicarrell.bsky.social, Daniel Lassell, & @robbienestor.bsky.social read--and I'm grateful to be the caboose on March 26's episode of 100 Pitchers of Honey. With thanks to Donna Vorreyer, link in 1st comment.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Jane Zwart from Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Waiting Room

It

is possible to pass a whole life
like this, half-harkening.

perusing a backlog of Vanity Fair

It is possible to hang on the turn
of a knob without wanting
the thing on the door's other side.

You could grow old here, your sight
skating the eights that ivy up
the wallpaper while reruns run

It is possible to pass years waiting,
unyearning, and still to start
at a voice announcing your name.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Such good poems in this one

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Dear poetry buddies, you're invited: this Saturday afternoon, I'm doing a workshop on metaphor (and its cousins), and I'd love to study & write some poems with you if you can swing it. Registration link in first comment.

A more accessible version of this image (a flyer for a poetry workshop) is available here: https://www.orisonbooks.com/product-page/going-for-broke-a-class-with-jane-zwart

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thank you, @timothygreen.bsky.social. As your fan--and @rattlepoetry.bsky.social's fan--it meant the world to me to be the guest for episode 333 of Rattlecast. If any of y'all are interested, link to the episode in the first comment:

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Good poem about the future we maybe all want:

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Grateful to have a poem (with its title lifted from an Umberto Eco novel) in the newest issue of @rattlepoetry.bsky.social, a Magazine--and community--I've loved for a long, long time. Thank you, @timothygreen.bsky.social.

Cover the newest issue of Rattle, with cover art by Nicky O'Connell.
In the image, a stone path through a gloomy forest (all trunks, no leaves) navigated by a school of gentle blue butterflies, each carrying a lantern.

Text of a poem called "Island of the Day Before" by Jane Zwart, too long to reproduce here.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hey, writing & reading Kin, I know that some of y'all were in Baltimore & might be poetryed out. But if you still have room for a morsel, maybe you'll tune in to Rattlecast tonight at 8pm EST? youtube.com/live/XNhMYKf...

youtube.com

Jane Zwart | Rattlecast 333

YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"subpoenaed by grief" @janezwart.bsky.social from Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best Orison Books, 2026

Bad news finds you where it finds you,

Sarah says. She is not wrong. Every day diagnoses steal through routine's transoms. Every day people weep unwillingly

in elevated trains, in classrooms, in a surfeit of natural light. My grandma died, and my phone rang in an arcade.

I made my mom repeat herself. I made my son loose, on his birthday, my hand. Once, bad news had to strive more.

It used a solemn buddy system and landlines; it had to find us home. Not anymore. It finds us wherever it finds us,

Sarah says. She is not appalled. She knows: it wouldn't do a lick of good for us, subpoenaed by grief, to juke its messenger.

She knows chances are we'll run, unsuspecting, toward the ones who tell us it's now: the end of the world. And how could it be

otherwise? Bad news, our dear ones will say, in the same voices that have said See you and Remember. Bad news, giving the words

to the only air there is, ambered by kisses and smudged by fire and reserved, in equal measure, for first and last breaths.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hey writing kin, if you're going to be in Baltimore, I'd love to say hello. I'm also up for signing books if you're into that kind of thing. But mostly I'd love to say hello.

Events for Jane Zwart and Haley Hodges at AWP.

JANE: off-site reading, Friday at 7pm, Max's Taphouse, 737 S. Broadway.
"Poet of the Hour," Saturday at 2pm, Only Poems, booth 446

HALEY: signing, Thursday 2 to 4, Whitworth University, booth 515
"One Poet, One Poem" reading and open mic, Vino, 1636 Thames St

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A poem with a repurposed title, with gratitude to Oscar Wilde & to Zone 3.

For a more accessible version: The Importance of Being Earnest - Zone 3 https://share.google/pVVedNulgNtXXJFu8

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm feeling very lucky about to be part of a triptych like this. Congrats, Matt & Sarah. And thank you to the dear ones at South Carolina Review. 🧡 blogs.clemson.edu/southcarolin...

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Three SCR Contributors Publish – The South Carolina Review

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'm finally giving up my (perfect!) NAWP streak this year, but I think this is such a wonderful thing Mitch & Jared do, and if you can, you should join them.

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