Jane Zwart (she/her)

Going for Broke - A Poetry Class with Jane Zwart | Orison Books In this workshop, we’ll look at poems crammed with comparative language. We’ll talk about metaphor, simile, and associative thinking, as well as considering how we can tell how much comparison a poem ...

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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.

Jane Zwart | Rattlecast 333 YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

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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:

Thank you. 🧡🩷❤️

Good poem about the future we maybe all want:

Let's let ch'others know if either of us finds it. 🩵

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.

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

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.

Oops. Sorry about the capital K. Reading (& proselytizing about) Tayari Jones's new novel a bit lately, and my phone thinks it knows me. 😉

Jane Zwart | Rattlecast 333 YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

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?

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Thank you, Roger--both for listening & for this generous note.

So excited to meet you! 🩵

Thank you, Haley. 💚

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.

"subpoenaed by grief"

@janezwart.bsky.social
from Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best
Orison Books, 2026

Darby, thank you for this borrowed bit of flight. 🩵

Oh! I will look!
And look forward to saying hello in person!

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

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.

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

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

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

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. 🧡

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Lucky book!

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.

Oh, Eric--what an honor to have my book in your hands & what generosity for you to give it your blessing here.

I’m reading @janezwart.bsky.social’s excellent new book, and finding wisdom and wit and beauty on every page—and I love the Cornell box cover!

Thank you for making time to join! 🩵

THERE IT IS! Sign up and register, and we'll see ya March 5th!

Excerpt from poem Vultures by Jane Zwart, from Variant issue 22: "When my favorite aunt died, her daughter went through her jewelry. It was not precious as rubies are precious. It was precious as strangeness is precious. Or time."

From issue 22, "Vultures," a new poem by @janezwart.bsky.social on grief, precious finds, and what we inherit or borrow

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Thank you, dear ones, for making space for this one. 🩵

Going for Broke - A Poetry Class with Jane Zwart | Orison Books In this workshop, we’ll look at poems crammed with comparative language. We’ll talk about metaphor, simile, and associative thinking, as well as considering how we can tell how much comparison a poem ...

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Ad for workshop on metaphor and simile with Jane Zwart--all info available through registration link in first comment.

Hey, poetry kin.
If you want to work on your metaphor & simile game, you're invited to this workshop. Grateful to Orison Books for dreaming it up. Registration link in the first comment.

ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST by Jane Zwart @janezwart.bsky.social
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