Les Barricades Mysterieuses: thirty-two villanelles
Jared Carter's first collection of poems,Work, for the Night Is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award for 1980. His second,After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize for 1995. He was a recipient of the Indiana Governor's Arts Award in 1985. His fellowships include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His two collections, along with an earlier chapbook of poems and photographs,Pincushion's Strawberry, are available from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.