Biography
Jane Ozkowski was the winner of the Broken Social Scene Story Contest. Her work has appeared on The Walrus Blog, in Poetry is Dead, as well as in a variety of online magazines. She can be found online at www.janeozkowski.com and in real life in Toronto.
Samples
Sometimes We Try Sometimes we try not to think about how scared we are of ourselves, how our rooms smell after a night out and the taste of the bean burrito we had for breakfast. We try to be nice to each other and buy each other americanos and listen. We are trying to remember what it was like to hold hands and kiss like we did before this mania overtook us. We try to say the things that seem true to us and to listen. We try to listen. We are trying to be sincere and have feelings and say things and buy each other americanos. We are trying to listen.
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Blog entries by Jane Ozkowski
Fire Escape (04/10/2014)
Alarm (10/06/2014)
Gladiolus (27/05/2014)
After Everyone is Dead (19/05/2014)
Diner (16/05/2014)
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Comments
I love the way your sample piece tumbles over itself: trying to listen as the self-observant stuff worries us, despite ourselves. Whether reporting a romance or just, trying to listen, the poem has a good hold on that fractured quality that can invade our thoughts, this mania. I think it is a very good poem.
Dom.
Hello Jane
Welcome to Write Out Loud.
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Tommy Carroll
Sun 5th Oct 2014 15:55
re ''In bits'' like Barney at Mo's? Tommy
'Barney is a character in 'The Simpsons' and 'Mo's' is a bar.
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