Justin Spring

Justin Spring is a prizewinning poet, video artist, and writer. 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 the sole originator of an allied video form called SOULSPEAK DREAMSTORIES. He considers his work in the oral and audio/visual area to be pioneering. Mr. Spring is 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 highly successful children and lives in Mexico and the United States.Mr. 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 six collections of poems, Polaroid Poems, Other Dancers, Nursery Raps, Talkies, Poems for Family and Friends and Poems of Sarasota and Florida. Mr. Spring is one of a handful of poets in the country who compose in the ancient oral mode. His seven SOULSPEAK oral poetry CDs are: Gathering, Smoke, Nursery Raps, Speakings, In Your Mind, Witnesses Log, I’m Talking to You Oprah. Mr. Spring is also the author of three prose works:SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey: a ground breaking CD/book combination intended for anyone interested in attaining the deep spiritual expression possible through SOULSPEAK. Alice Hickey: Between Worlds: a mysterious, sometimes troubling story about two strangers flung together by inexplicable psychic forces that lead them on a dizzying journey into the roots of human consciousness, the psychic roots of poetry and the mysterious Mother Goddess cultures.Mirrors: a short memoir of Mr. Spring’s fascinating encounter with the pidgin poetry of the Australian aborigine, Eldred Van-Ooy. Mr. Spring describes the encounter as one that left him in a mysterious garden, wondering, looking up at the leaves