Jane Springer

Jane Springer (born Lawrenceburg, Tennessee) is an American poet.[1] Her honors include a 2010 Whiting Award,[2] the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books.[3]

Life

She graduated from Florida State University with a PhD in creative writing. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College.[4][5]

She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow [6] and her first book, Dear Blackbird, won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize.[7] Her work appeared in AGNI,[8] Sycamore Review,[9] and Poetry.[10]

Poet Lynnell Edwards, reviewing her second collection, Murder Ballad, noted, "Springer's long line is fearless in its music, indulging luscious sounds and pounding measures. Traversing the despair of the rural south, [she] exploits the urgency and dread of every keening murder ballad, showing how that cleaving is both our undoing and our salvation."[11]

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/jane_springer_0
  2. ↑ http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jane-springer#/
  3. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer
  4. ↑ http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/jane-springer-si-recipient-of-2010-whiting-writers-award
  5. ↑ http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/faculty?dept=English
  6. ↑ http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=09_15
  7. ↑ http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/upcat&CISOPTR=1189
  8. ↑ http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2006/springer.html
  9. ↑ http://www.sycamorereview.com/jane-springer/
  10. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer
  11. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer

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