Author Biography

Justin Spring is a prize-winning poet, video artist, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is one of the few poets who works not only in the written mode of composition but also in a contemporary version of preliterate oral poetry called SOULSPEAK-of which he and fellow poet Scylla Liscombe are the originators. He is also the sole originator of an allied video form called DREAMSTORIES. Many consider his work in the oral and audio/visual area to be both original and pioneering. Mr. Spring is also the founder of SOULSPEAK, an organization dedicated to bringing poetry back into the everyday lives of everyday people. He was educated at Columbia College, has three children, and lives in Mexico and the United States. Mr. Spring's written 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, Nursery Raps, Talkies, Poems for Family and Friends, Poems of Sarasota and Florida, Collected Poems 1985-2014 Mr. Spring's seven SOULSPEAK oral poetry CDs are: Gathering, Smoke, Nursery Raps, Speakings, In Your Mind, Witnesses Log, I'm Talking to You Oprah. Mr. Spring has published over 200 video Dreamstories on the web. They can be viewed at: Mr. Spring is also the author of four prose works: SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul, ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds, MIRROIRS: The Aborigine Poetry of Eldred Van-Ooy, and RIVER MOTHER: The Face of the Sphinx. There is a companion web site to RIVER MOTHER: When Was the Sphinx Really Built and Why at:

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