# Jane Springer

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

## Life

She graduated from [Florida State University](/source/Florida_State_University) with a PhD in creative writing. She is associate professor of Literature and Creative Writing at [Hamilton College](/source/Hamilton_College_(New_York)).[4][5]

She was a [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/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

## References

1. ["Jane Springer"](http://www.pw.org/content/jane_springer_0). 10 July 2011.

1. ["Jane Springer"](http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jane-springer#/)

1. ["Jane Springer"](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer). 24 July 2021.

1. ["Jane Springer Receives 2010 Whiting Writers' Award"](http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/jane-springer-si-recipient-of-2010-whiting-writers-award)

1. ["Academics - Areas of Study"](http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/faculty?dept=English)

1. ["NEA Writers' Corner: Jane Springer"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111016022455/http://nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=09_15). Archived from [the original](http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=09_15) on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

1. ["J. Willard Marriott Digital Library"](http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/upcat&CISOPTR=1189)

1. ["Agni Online"](http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2006/springer.html). 15 April 2023.

1. ["Jane Springer | Sycamore Review"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120615134231/http://www.sycamorereview.com/jane-springer/). Archived from [the original](http://www.sycamorereview.com/jane-springer/) on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2011-09-27.

1. ["Jane Springer"](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer). 24 July 2021.

1. ["Jane Springer"](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jane-springer). 24 July 2021.

## External links

- [Poet's blog](https://janespringer.blogspot.com/)
- [Profile at The Whiting Foundation](http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jane-springer#/)
- ["Interview with Jane Springer"](http://www.cincinnatireview.com/blog/uncategorized/interview-with-jane-springer/), *The Cincinnati Review*, Don Bogen, December 19, 2010
- [http://www.versedaily.org/2007/aboutjanespringerdb.shtml](http://www.versedaily.org/2007/aboutjanespringerdb.shtml)

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