October 1, 2023
Jane Zwart
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. In addition, she is the co-editor of book reviews for Plume; her own reviews have been published there and in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“The poem is a jar of raspberries no one
means to preserve, a palm to its rim
to keep off flies.”
“…how versatile laughter is: how it suits disbelief, for instance, whether at some awful blow or some great good luck; how quickly it follows embarrassment; how even grief can't keep it out of the house.”