name: William Jay Smith
birth_date: 1918-04-22 00:00:00
death_date: 2015-08-18 00:00:00
genres: Poetry
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about: William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.