About the Author
Justin Spring was educated at Columbia College. He is a prize-winning poet, writer, and video maker. He and poet/dancer/artist Scylla Liscombe are the founders of SOULSPEAK/SOULMOVES, a unique organization dedicated to bringing poetry, dance and art 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 seven collections of written poetry and seven recorded collections (CDs) of oral poetry.
Mr. Spring is also the author of two non-poetry books, SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul and Alice Hickey: Between Worlds. Both books are in-depth journeys into the nature of oral poetry as well as the nature of pre-literate poetry and the cultures that gave birth to it.
Mr. Spring is an eclectic video maker. His videos range from travel diaries to documentaries on the therapeutic use of oral and written poetry to groundbreaking art videos that combine oral, written and musical poetry in a new, fluid form he calls Dreamstories. At the current time, over 150 Dreamstories can be seen on VIDEO SOULSPEAK. In addition to the free web video station, VIDEO SOULSPEAK, Mr. Spring has also created a free web radio station, called RADIO SOULSPEAK, which has a highly eclectic format. Both stations run 365/24 and offer cutting edge selections of what is happening today in music, spoken/sung poetry, and video art.
He is also the creator of over twenty (20) Broadcast quality DVDs which are available to educational and public access stations free of charge. Six of the DVDs are documentaries on the therapeutic use of written and oral poetry with the remainder being collections of his award-winning Dreamstories.
Mr. Spring has been married twice to good women but never quite figured out how to make it work. In addition, he has three highly successful children who sometimes pay attention to his poetry. 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.