JARED SMITH

Two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (2007 and 2008,) Jared Smith has had over 600 poems, essays, and literary commentaries published in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and China, as well as having appeared on multiple occasions on both NPR and Pacifica networks. He has a distinguished 25 year career of publication in poetry volumes and the nation's leading literary journals, while serving as a leader in continuing education and policy formation in both the public and private sectors. This includes advising the Clinton Administration on national security policy, serving as Special Appointee to Argonne National Laboratory, serving as Associate Director of Education and Research at a major private laboratory outside Chicago, and spearheading various private/public sector partnerships between industry and various university and government agency groups.

He is the author of seven volumes of critically acclaimed poetry, two stage productions, and two CDs. He has written and published poetry as well as supporting literary development by serving executive functions in various literary organizations. Jared's poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, The Small Press Review, The New York Quarterly, Kenyon Review, Pulpsmith, Rhino, Spoon River Quarterly, Bitter Oleander, The Pedestal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Greenfield Review, Bitterroot, Coe Review, Fine Madness, Pembroke Magazine, CrossCountry, Trail & Timberline, and many, many others. His work has been adapted to modern dance at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and to musical drama at Crossroads Theatre in Naperville, Illinois. He has been interviewed and read his work on NPR radio programs. He has served on the editorial boards of The New York Quarterly, Home Planet News, and The Pedestal. He is the Poetry Editor of Trail & Timberline Magazine, the official journal of the Colorado Mountain Club. He is a past president of Poets & Patrons in Chicago, a member of The Chicago Poets' Club, the Illinois State Poetry Society, The American Academy of Poets, Colorado State Poetry Association and the Colorado Poets Center.

He lived in Chicago for 16 years before moving to Colorado, His Selected Longer Poems: 1983-2008 will be published by Tamarack Editions in 2010.

He travels frequently around the country lecturing and giving readings at colleges, libraries, coffee shops, and other venues.  His website is www.jaredsmith.info.

Jared Smith's works include:

The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations (2008, Higganum Hill Books)
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Where Images Become Imbued With Time (2007, The Puddin'head Press, IL)
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Lake Michigan And Other Poems (2005, The Puddin'head Press, IL)
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Walking The Perimeters Of The Plate Glass Window Factory (2002, Birch Brook Press, NY)
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Keeping The Outlaw Alive (1988, Erie Street Press, Chicago)
Dark Wing (1984, Charred Norton Publishing, NY)
and
Song Of The Blood: An Epic (1983, The Smith Press, NY)

CD's of poetry:

Controlled by Ghosts, (2007, Practical Music Studio)
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Seven Minutes Before the Bombs Drop, (2006, Artvilla)
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