Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has six new poems published in this spring’s issue of The Southern Review. The poems are titled “Looks Like the Hound That Caught the Car”; “Nocturne: So Mixed Up She Don’t Know Daylight from Dark”; “In a Coon’s Age”;   “Don’t Know a Stranger”; “I’ll Wear the Hound out of That”; and “Pretty As You Please.” The Southern Review is published by Louisiana State University.

Springer’s first book, Dear Blackbird, won the Agha Shahid Ali prize for poetry (University of Utah Press, 2007).  She is a current recipient of an NEA fellowship and was one of 10 recipients of the 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.