Jared Carter
| Jared Carter | |
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| Born | January 10, 1939 Elwood, Indiana |
| Occupation | Poet, editor |
| Nationality | American |
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www.jaredcarter.com |
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Jared Carter (born January 10, 1939) is an American poet and editor.
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[edit] Life
Jared Carter was born in Elwood, Indiana on January 10, 1939. 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.
Carter 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.
[edit] 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 Carter has published increasingly on the web, his poetry has ranged farther afield.
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 abroad and in the anthologies Twentieth-Century American Poetry,[1] Contemporary American Poetry, [2] and Writing Poems. [3] He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Indiana Governor’s Arts Award.
In 2008 Carter's poem "Heart's Forest," which appeared in issue # 38 of Free Lunch, received the Rosine Offen Memorial Award given by the Free Lunch Arts Alliance.
His poem Prophet Township, which first appeared in the Valparaiso Poetry Review, was selected as one of the best poems published online during 2007. It is included in the print anthology Best of the Web 2008[4] published by Dzanc Books.
Carter’s tanka sequence, “A Country Visit,” first published in Simply Haiku, was selected for Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka.[5] published in 2009 by Modern English Tanka Press.
[edit] Publications
- Time Capsule. 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. 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. ISBN 0-321-09423-9 ISBN 978-0-321-09423-0.
- ^ Westland, Michigan: Dzanc Books, 2008. Best of the Web Series. Compiled by series editor Nathan Leslie and guest editor Steve Almond. ISBN 978-0-9793123-4-2 ISBN 0-9793123-4-5.
- ^ Baltimore: Modern English Tanka Press, 2009. Volume 2, edited by M. Kei, Sanford Goldstein et al. ISBN 10:1935398083 ISBN 13:978-1935398080.
[edit] External links
- Official web site of Jared Carter Poetry
- Jared Carter's 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
- Poems at Poetry X
- Poems at The HyperTexts
- Poems at The Scream Online
- Poems at Archipelago
- Poems at The New Formalist
- Interview at Pennsylvania Review
- Interview at Valparaiso Poetry Review
- Interview at The New Formalist'
- Interview at Centrifugal Eye
- Interview at ShatterColors Literary Review
- Interview at Rushing the Growler
- Comprehensive page of additional links
