Person Detail: William Jay Smith

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General Information:
Full Name: William Jay Smith
Biography: (1918-2015) Poet. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana, and died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Smith did graduate work at Columbia University.
Author's Timeline:
1918		(Unknown) County William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana, on April 22, 1918.
2015		(Unknown) County William Jay Smith died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on August 18, 2015.
1998		(Unknown) County The World Below The Window: Poems, 1937-1997 (Pub: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 0801858593 / 978-0801858598) Collection of poetry.
1980		(Unknown) County Army Brat (Pub: Persea Books ISBN: 0892550473 / 978-0892550470) Memoir.
1980		New York County In the 1980s Mr. Smith was poet in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, New York.
1966		(Unknown) County The Tin Can, And Other Poems (Pub: Delacorte Press ISBN: 0385290608 / 978-0385290609) Collection of poetry.
1988		(Unknown) County Plain Talk: Epigrams, Epitaphs, Satires, Nonsense, Occasional, Concrete & Quotidian Poems (Pub: Center for Book Arts ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
2000		(Unknown) County The Cherokee Lottery (Pub: Curbstone Books ISBN: 1880684667 / 978-1880684665) Collection of poetry.
1957		(Unknown) County Boy Blue's Book Of Beasts (Pub: Little, Brown ISBN: ) Collection of children's poetry.
1964		(Unknown) County Ho For A Hat! (Pub: Little, Brown ISBN: ) Collection of poetry for children.
1968		(Unknown) County Mr. Smith was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
?		New York County Mr. Smith did graduate work and taught at Columbia University.