Jared Carter (poet)

Jared Carter
Born (1939-01-10) January 10, 1939
Elwood, Indiana, U.S.
OccupationsPoet, editor

Jared Carter (born January 10, 1939) is an American poet and editor.

Life

Carter was born in 1939 in Elwood, Indiana, and attended Yale University and Goddard College.[1] Before he became a poet, he worked as a newspaper journalist and served in the military.[1]

Poetry

Carter writes in free verse and in traditional forms. Much of his early work is set in "Mississinewa County", an imaginary place that includes the actual Mississinewa River, a tributary of the Wabash River.

In recent years, as he has published increasingly on the web, his poetry has ranged farther afield. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and other journals in the U.S. and abroad."

His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming (1981), won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain (1993), was given the Poets' Prize. He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,[2] a Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] and the Indiana Governor's Arts Award.[4]

Awards

Poems in Anthologies

  • The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Verse.[5]
  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry.[6]
  • Contemporary American Poetry.[7]
  • Writing Poems.[8]
  • Poetry from Paradise Valley.[9]

Books

  • The Land Itself. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongehela Books, 2019. ISBN 978-1-7330060-1-9
  • Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0803248571
  • A Dance in the Street. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2012. ISBN 978-1-936138-27-2
  • Cross This Bridge at a Walk. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2006. ISBN 1-893239-46-2
  • Les Barricades Mystérieuses. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999. ISBN 1-880834-40-5
  • After the Rain. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993. ISBN 1-880834-03-0
  • Work, for the Night Is Coming. New York: Macmillan, 1981. ISBN 1-880834-20-0

Chapbooks

  • Blues Project. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991. ISBN 1-880649-27-6
  • Situation Normal. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991.
  • The Shriving. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Duende Press, 1990.
  • Millennial Harbinger. Philadelphia: Slash & Burn Press, 1986. ISBN 0-938345-01-X
  • Pincushion's Strawberry. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1984. ISBN 0-914946-43-9
  • Fugue State. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1984. ISBN 0-935306-16-1
  • Early Warning. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1979.

E-books

  • Time Capsule.[10] E-book no. 26. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2007.
  • Reading the Tarot: Nine Villanelles.[11] E-book no. 17. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2005.

Sources

  • Deines, Timothy J."The Gleaning: Regionalism, Form, and Theme in the Poetry of Jared Carter." M.A. thesis, Cleveland State University.
  • "Jared Carter." Contemporary Authors . Vol. 145, pp. 75–76. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.
  • Purdy, Gilbert Wesley. The Ties of the Railroad Tracks Home: the Poetry of Jared Carter. Kindle edition, 2014.
  • Ponick, T. L., and Ponick, F. S. "Jared Carter." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 282, pp. 31–40. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003.
  • Webb, Jeffrey B. "Watershed Redesign in the Upper Wabash River Drainage Area 1870-1970." Environment, Space, Place 6:1 (spring 2016): 80–86. Zeta Books: Bucharest.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Jared Carter". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2026-08-30.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jared Carter".
  4. ↑ "Arts: Governor's Arts Awards - Past Recipients". www.in.gov. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  5. ↑ Steubenville,Ohio: Catholic University of America Press, in partnership with Franciscan University Press, 2025. Compiled by Sunil Iyengar. ISBN 9798893721195
  6. ↑ New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Compiled by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke. ISBN 978-0-07-240019-9.
  7. ↑ New York: Penguin Academics Series, 2005. Compiled by R. S. Gwynn and April Lindner.ISBN 978-0-321-18282-1.
  8. ↑ New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. ISBN 978-0-321-09423-0.
  9. ↑ San Antonio, Texas: Pecan Grove Press, 2010. Edited by Edward Byrne. ISBN 978-1-931-24786-3.
  10. ↑ Yankevich, Leo. "Jared Carter - Time Capsule". theformalist.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  11. ↑ Yankevich, Leo. "Jared Carter - Reading the Tarot: Nine Villanelles". theformalist.org. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
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