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 Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing 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
  • Dear Blackbird, University of Utah Press, 2007
  • Murder Ballad, Alice James Books, May 2012
gollark: If you think about it, maybe OTHER people want to keep living.
gollark: You can't reasonably ascribe rights to people who never existed/*might* exist because that is very very problematic.
gollark: The child you talk about never existed.
gollark: > I mind if someone kills me, but in theory they shouldn't*Why* do you mind?
gollark: > there's no difference ultimately in choosing to have one less child and in killing an adultYes there is...

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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2011-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer
  11. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer
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