Jane Springer
{{short description|American poet}}
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|name=Jane Springer
|birth_place=Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, U.S.
|occupation=Poet
|education=Florida State University (PhD)
|awards=Whiting Award (2010)
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Jane Springer (born Lawrenceburg, Tennessee) is an American poet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/jane_springer_0|title = Jane Springer| date=10 July 2011 }} Her honors include a 2010 Whiting Award,{{Cite web|url=http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jane-springer#/|title = Jane Springer}} the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer|title = Jane Springer|date = 24 July 2021}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/jane-springer-si-recipient-of-2010-whiting-writers-award|title = Jane Springer Receives 2010 Whiting Writers' Award}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/faculty?dept=English|title=Academics - Areas of Study}}
She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow {{Cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=09_15 |title=NEA Writers' Corner: Jane Springer |access-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016022455/http://nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=09_15 |archive-date=2011-10-16 |url-status=dead }} and her first book, Dear Blackbird, won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/upcat&CISOPTR=1189|title = J. Willard Marriott Digital Library}} Her work appeared in AGNI,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2006/springer.html|title = Agni Online| date=15 April 2023 }} Sycamore Review,{{Cite web |url=http://www.sycamorereview.com/jane-springer/ |title=Jane Springer | Sycamore Review |access-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615134231/http://www.sycamorereview.com/jane-springer/ |archive-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead }} and Poetry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer|title = Jane Springer|date = 24 July 2021}}
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."{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer|title = Jane Springer|date = 24 July 2021}}
Works
- Dear Blackbird, University of Utah Press, 2007
- Murder Ballad, Alice James Books, May 2012
References
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External links
- [http://janespringer.blogspot.com/ Poet's blog]
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jane-springer#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
- [http://www.cincinnatireview.com/blog/uncategorized/interview-with-jane-springer/ "Interview with Jane Springer"], The Cincinnati Review, Don Bogen, December 19, 2010
- http://www.versedaily.org/2007/aboutjanespringerdb.shtml
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:Florida State University alumni
Category:Hamilton College (New York) faculty
Category:People from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
Category:21st-century American women writers