Occupation Poet, editor Nationality American | Name Jared Carter | |
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Born January 10, 1939 (age 85)
Elwood, Indiana ( 1939-01-10 ) | ||
Jared carter
Jared Carter is an American poet and editor.
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- Jared carter
- Jared Carter interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener 1986 series
- Life
- Poetry
- Books
- References
Jared Carter - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1986 series)
Life
Carter grew up in the small town of Elwood, Indiana, which is also the birthplace of Wendell Willkie, the Republican presidential candidate in 1940. Following graduation from high school in 1956, he attended Yale and, in later years, Goddard College. At Yale he majored in English literature; at Goddard, American history.
After military service and travel abroad in the 1960s, 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.
He is a fifth-generation Hoosier, descended from anti-slavery North Carolinians and Virginians who migrated to Indiana in the decades following its establishment in 1816 as the nineteenth state. Several of his poems include details taken from the letters, journals, and family stories of his predecessors.
Among forbears on his mother’s side was Elias Baxter Decker, of Tipton County, Indiana, who fought at Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge, and who served with the 75th Indiana Infantry Regiment in the army led by William Tecumseh Sherman, on its March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah and points north, in 1864-65.
During the Second World War, Carter’s father, Robert A. Carter, served with the Seabees from 1943 to 1945, and took part in the construction of airstrips for B-29s on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas. Carter’s father-in-law, David P. Haston, was a technician with a B-17 flight wing in the Pacific during that conflict, serving from 1941 to 1945. For his participation in the Battle of Midway he was awarded three bronze stars.
On his father’s side, Carter is a great-nephew of American artist Glen Cooper Henshaw (1880-1946).
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, Contemporary American Poetry, Writing Poems, and Poetry from Paradise Valley.
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, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Indiana Governor's Arts Award.