ABOUT JARED SMITH

Jared Smith 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 has written and published poetry extensively throughout this period, 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. Jared is on the advisory board of The New York Quarterly, and Poetry Editor of Trail & Timberline Magazine, the official journal of the Colorado Mountain Club. He is also immediate past president of Poets & Patrons in Chicago, a member of The Chicago Poets' Club and the Illinois State Poetry Society.

Lake Michigan and Other Poems is Jared Smith's fifth book of poetry. Jared's previous books have been critically well-received by such writers as the late William Packard, Walter James Miller, Andrew Glaze, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Smith, Stanley Nelson, and others.

These books include:
Walking The Perimeters Of The Plate Glass Window Factory (2002, Birch Brook Press, NY)
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)

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