Jared Carter
| Jared Carter | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
January 10, 1939 Elwood, Indiana |
| Occupation | Poet, editor |
| Nationality | American |
Jared Carter is an American poet and editor.
Life
Carter is a native Midwesterner. He studied at Yale and at Goddard College. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969.
He worked for many years as an editor and interior designer of textbooks and scholarly works, first with the Bobbs-Merrill Company and later in association with Hackett Publishing Company.
Poetry
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 work has been anthologized in Twentieth-Century American Poetry,[1] Contemporary American Poetry, [2] Writing Poems, [3] and Poetry from Paradise Valley.[4]
His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, was given the Poets' Prize. He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,[5] a Guggenheim Fellowship,[6] and the Indiana Governor's Arts Award.[7]
Books
- Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0803248571
- A Dance in the Street. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2012. ISBN 978-1-936138-27-2
- Time Capsule.[8] E-book no. 26. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2007.
- Cross this Bridge at a Walk. Nicholasville, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 2006. ISBN 1-893239-46-2
- Reading the Tarot: Nine Villanelles.[9] E-book no. 17. Dayton, Washington: New Formalist Press, 2005.
- Les Barricades Mystérieuses. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999. ISBN 1-880834-40-5
- After the Rain. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993. ISBN 1-880834-03-0
- Situation Normal. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991.
- Blues Project. Indianapolis: Writers’ Center Press, 1991. ISBN 1-880649-27-6
- The Shriving. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Duende Press, 1990.
- Millennial Harbinger. Philadelphia: Slash & Burn Press, 1986. ISBN 0-938345-01-X
- Pincushion's Strawberry. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1984. ISBN 0-914946-43-9
- Fugue State. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1984. ISBN 0-935306-16-1
- Work, for the Night Is Coming. New York: Macmillan, 1981. ISBN 1-880834-20-0
- Early Warning. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1979.
Sources
- Deines, Timothy J. The Gleaning: Regionalism, Form, and Theme in the Poetry of Jared Carter." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 1998.
- "Jared Carter." Contemporary Authors . Vol. 145, pp. 75–76. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.
- Ponick, T. L., and Ponick, F. S. "Jared Carter." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 282, pp. 31–40. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003.
Notes
- ↑ New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Compiled by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke. ISBN 978-0-07-240019-9.
- ↑ New York: Penguin Academics Series, 2005. Compiled by R. S. Gwynn and April Lindner. ISBN 978-0-321-18282-1.
- ↑ New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. ISBN 978-0-321-09423-0.
- ↑ San Antonio, Texas: Pecan Grove Press, 2010. Edited by Edward Byrne. ISBN 978-1-931-24786-3.
- ↑ http://arts.endow.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=c&page=5
- ↑ http://www.in.gov/arts/2520.htm
- ↑ http://theformalist.org/ebooks/carter2.html
- ↑ http://theformalist.org/ebooks/carter.html
External links
- Academy of American Poets page
- Poets & Writers Directory entry
- Wayback Machine capture of original Jared Carter Poetry website 2003-2007
- PEN American Center Directory entry
- Goodreads entry
- Indiana Historical Society photograph
- Blog Rushing the Growler
- Literary criticism, "Modulation and the Poetry of Jared Carter," at Paul Hurt's Linkagenet
- Literary criticism, "The Gleaning, Part 1" at Rushing the Growler
- Literary criticism, "The Persistence of Regionalism: Jared Carter's Darkened Rooms of Summer" at Fencerow: A Journal of the New Regionalism
- Poems at Fencerow: A Journal of the New Regionalism
- Poems at The HyperTexts
- Poems at The Scream Online
- Poems at The Scream Online
- Poems at Archipelago
- Poems at The New Formalist
- Interview at The Hypertexts
- Interview at Pennsylvania Review
- Interview at Valparaiso Poetry Review
- Interview at The New Formalist
- Interview at Rushing the Growler