Jared Carter

Poet

Birthday January 10, 1939

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Indiana

Age 85 years old

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About

Poet known for Work, for the Night Is Coming, a 1981 Walt Whitman Award-winning poetry collection. His other works include Darkened Rooms of Summer, Situation Normal, and Fugue State.

Before Fame

He attended Yale University and later worked as an editor for the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

Trivia

He received the prestigious Poets' Prize for After the Rain, a 1993 poetry collection.

Family Life

Born in Elwood, Indiana, he settled in Indianapolis in 1969.

Associated With

He was influenced by the work of T.S. Eliot.