MAKING GOOD POEMS

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Location SARASOTA, FLORIDA, United States
Introduction Justin Spring was educated at Columbia College. He is a prize-winning poet, writer, and video maker. He is the founder of SOULSPEAK, an organization dedicated to bringing poetry in all its forms back into the everyday lives of everyday people. Mr. Spring’s written poetry has been published in such distinguished periodicals as American Poetry Review as well as in numerous quarterlies and anthologies. He is one of a handful of poets who work not only in the written mode of composition but also in the ancient mode of spontaneous oral composition. He is the author of six collections of written poetry and seven recorded collections (CDs) of oral poetry. Mr. Spring is also the author of three non-poetry books, SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul, Alice Hickey: Between Worlds and Mirrors. Mr. Spring is an eclectic video maker of groundbreaking art videos that combine oral, written and musical poetry in a new, fluid form he calls Dreamstories. He currently divides his time between Florida and Mexico. All, or portions, of his Books, CDs, DVDs, Videos and Visual Art are available for free downloading at WWW.SOULSPEAK.ORG.