ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Justin Spring’s poems have been published in American Poetry Review, as well as numerous anthologies such as Florida in Poetry. He is the recipient of many prizes and honors and is the author of seven collections of poems, Polaroid Poems, Other Dancers, Talkies, Nursery Raps, Poems for Family and Friends, Poems of Sarasota and Florida and Collected Poems 1985-2014.
Mr. Spring is also one of a handful of poets in the country who compose in the ancient oral mode. His SOULSPEAK oral poetry can be found on the following MANY VOICES/SOULSPEAK Studio CDs: Gathering, Smoke, Nursery Raps, Speakings, In Your Mind, Witnesses Log, I’m Talking to You Oprah. He has also created over one hundred video Dreamstories—his pioneering video versions of SOULSPEAK oral poetry.
Mr. Spring is also the author of four prose works: SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul; ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds; Mirrors: the Aborigine Poetry of Eldred Vannoy, and RIVER MOTHER: The Face of the Sphinx.
Mr. Spring was educated at Columbia College. He has three children and lives in Mexico and the United States.