Background
Carter, Jared was born on January 10, 1939 in Elwood, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Alton and Cleva Lois (Hackett) Carter.
(Since Jared Carter's poetry collection, Work, for the Nig...)
Since Jared Carter's poetry collection, Work, for the Night is Coming, won the 1980 Walt Whitman Award, he has been recognized as one of the nation's major poets. This is his fourth collection of poems. He continues to tell us about a place called Mississinewa County. His poems reach out to the stories, myths, and recollections of an entire continent.
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Carter, Jared was born on January 10, 1939 in Elwood, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Alton and Cleva Lois (Hackett) Carter.
He studied at Yale and at Goddard College.
Carter is a native Midwesterner. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969. He worked for many years as an editor and interior designer of textbooks and scholarly works, first with the Bobbs-Merrill Company and later in association with Hackett Publishing Company.
His poems have appeared in literary journals in the United States. and abroad and in the anthologies Twentieth-Century American, Contemporary American, Writing Poems, and from Paradise Valley.
(Since Jared Carter's poetry collection, Work, for the Nig...)
(Jared Carter's second collection of poems, winner of the ...)
(" Work, for the Night is coming is a beautiful, enriching...)
(" Work, for the Night is coming is a beautiful, enriching...)
(First Edition)
Married Diane Haston, June 21, 1979. 1 child, Selene.