Jared Carter

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

Background
Carter studied at Yale University. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969.

Work
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. In recent years, as Carter began to publish his poems on the web, his poetry has ranged farther.

His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize. His poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and in the Twentieth-Century American Poetry,New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Compiled by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke.  . Contemporary American Poetry, New York: Penguin Academics Series, 2005. Compiled by R. S. Gwynn and April Lindner.  . and Writing Poems. New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace.  .

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

 References 

Category:1939 births
Category:Living people
Category:American poets
Category:Writers from Indianapolis
Category:Yale University alumni