Jane Springer

Jane Springer’s poetry collections: Dear Blackbird, Murder Ballad, and Moth. Her work’s been featured in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart anthologies, and she’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and the Whiting Foundation. She teaches literature and creative writing at Hamilton College, in central New York.

 

  • Three Poems

    I remember a ditch of cattails, learning their names. How they rose by the bridge
  • After the Fire Items # 6-10, Living Room

    Mom said ‘Take them for the gold & don’t pay off my credit card debt,
  • I’ll Hang Around as Long as You Will Let Me

    John Prine is dead on TV in the season before trees bear peaches
  • Paper

    Damned if I’ll be the woman who collects mass produced throw pillows counts her
  • Velvetleaf

    Tick of sweet clover, swinecress parasite, did you have a music
  • Paper

    Damned if I’ll be the woman who collects mass produced throw pillows counts her
  • Woo | Red Rover

    O life little life little sawdust fleck I thought we’d go on riding hip-to-hip
  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught