Jared Carter

• Name — Jared Carter • Born — 10 January 1939 • Birthplace — Elwood, Indiana, U.S. • Occupation — Poet, editor

Carter was born in 1939 in Elwood, Indiana, and attended Yale University and Goddard College. Before he became a poet, he worked as a newspaper journalist and served in the military.

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, a tributary of the Wabash River. In recent years, as he has published increasingly on the web, his poetry has ranged farther afield. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and other journals in the U.S. and abroad." His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming (1981), won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain (1993), was given the Poets' Prize. He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Indiana Governor's Arts Award.

• The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Verse. • Twentieth-Century American Poetry. • Contemporary American Poetry. • Writing Poems. • Poetry from Paradise Valley.

• Blues Project. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991. • Situation Normal. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991. • The Shriving. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Duende Press, 1990. • Millennial Harbinger. Philadelphia: Slash & Burn Press, 1986. • Pincushion's Strawberry. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1984. • Fugue State. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1984. • Early Warning. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1979.

• The Land Itself. Morgantown, West Virginia: Monongehela Books, 2019. • Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. • A Dance in the Street. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2012. • Cross This Bridge at a Walk. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2006. • Les Barricades Mystérieuses. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999. • After the Rain. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993. • Work, for the Night Is Coming. New York: Macmillan, 1981.

• Time Capsule. E-book no. 26. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2007. • Reading the Tarot: Nine Villanelles. E-book no. 17. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2005.