William Jay Smith

For another person, see William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician).
William Jay Smith
Born(1918-04-22)April 22, 1918
Winnfield, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedAugust 18, 2015(2015-08-18) (aged 97)
Lenox, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationWashington University (AB, MA)
Columbia University
Wadham College, Oxford
University of Florence
Notable awardsAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters (1975)

William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

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