What is Jared Carter?
{{Infobox writer | image = Jared Carter.JPG | imagesize = 150px | name = Jared Carter | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=y|1939|1|10}} | birth_place =[[Elwood, Indiana|Elwood]], [[Indiana]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Poet, editor | nationality = [[United States|American]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | signature = | website = {{url|http://www.jaredcarter.com}} }} '''Jared Carter''' (born January 10, 1939) is an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]]. ==Background== Carter studied at [[Yale University]]. After [[military]] service and travel abroad, he made his home in [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]], where he has lived since 1969. ==Work== Carter writes in [[free verse]] and in [[tradition]]al 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 [[List of winners of the Walt Whitman Award|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,''<ref>New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Compiled by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke. {{ISBN|0-07-240019-6}} {{ISBN|978-0-07-240019-9}}.</ref> ''Contemporary American Poetry,'' <ref>New York: Penguin Academics Series, 2005. Compiled by R. S. Gwynn and April Lindner. {{ISBN|0-321-18282-0}} {{ISBN|978-0-321-18282-1}}.</ref> and ''Writing Poems.'' <ref>New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. {{ISBN|0-321-09423-9}} {{ISBN|978-0-321-09423-0}}.</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Jared}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Writers from Indianapolis]] [[Category:Yale Univer