Thank you, Robert. 💚
This is some heady company to keep.

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

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Harvest in the Dark | Amsterdam Review Jane Zwart joins W.J. Herbert to discuss her debut collection Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, a book of poems shaped by wonder, doubt, and faith.

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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.

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.

So grateful, Rick, for this generosity. And also so tickled to have the half-truth "I always write about life" in common.

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)

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.

Thank you, dear Mitch.🧡

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

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.

I love that. 💚

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!

Seth, this is such a beautiful poem, and that "good riddance," a renunciation the rest of the poem quietly renounces, is magic.

Also that: thank you for spending time with Oddest. 💚

Thank you, Alastair. 💚

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

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

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

Thanks, dear ones. 🧡

Happy to see this one take another little lap. 💚

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."

Text of poem titled "The Middle Part."

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

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.

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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.

Samuel, thank you--such words from writing kin mean the most. 💚

Thank you, dear Ronita. 💚

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.

Jane Zwart from Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best

#smallpoemsunday
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Thank you, Samuel, for blessing this one on its way. 🧡

Such good poems in this one

Thank you, Grant, for giving this one a little more flight.

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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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

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.