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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.  
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