William jay smith autobiography
William Jay Smith
American writer, translator, editor
For another person, see William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician).
William Jay Smith (April 22, – August 18, ) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from to [1]
Life
William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana.
He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and continued his studies at Columbia University. Smith later attended Wadham College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and continued his education at the University of Florence.[2][3]
In he married the poet Barbara Howes and they lived for a time in England and Italy.
William jay smith poems online It returns on the wind and he hears it While the waves make a rustle around; The dark settles down, and he fears it, He fears its thin, crickety sound. Cold is the ground and cold the red water. He became a member of The Academy of Arts and Letters since , and served one term as vice-president for literature. A year later I went alone on a much longer trip, the first of many to Eastern Europe.They had two sons, David Smith and Gregory. They divorced in the mids.
Smith was a poet in residence at Williams College from to and taught at Columbia University from until He served as the Professor Emeritus of English literature at Hollins University. He was the first Native American named to the position of Poet Laureate in the United States.
William jay smith biography If, as has been said, a camel is a horse designed by a committee, the joint translation can often also produce strange results. Although the task is not as easy as it looks, they sometimes come up with quite amazing results. Poetry, especially children's poetry, always begins with the particular; and, like that of most poets who have written for children, my interest began with a particular child on a special day. Smith served as a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress the position now known as the U.As of , he lived in houses located in both Cummington, Massachusetts, and Paris, France.[4]
Smith was the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award.
He had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since
His work appeared in Harper's Magazine,[5]The New York Review of Books,[6]
Works
Poetry
Poems for children
Translations
Non-fiction
Editor
- James S.
Holmes, William Jay Smith, ed. (). Dutch interior.
William jay smith autobiography I visited Moscow and St. Poetry is popular with vast segments of the population and was especially so during the Communist regime, when poets were able to say things couched metaphorically that prose writers would never have been able to get away with. We walked to and from the Post Theater over the road from the North Gate where the streetcar track once ran. I went on writing poetry, but rather than stay on at Oxford to complete my doctorate, we left at the end of the year to take up residence in Florence, where we had gone to visit friends.Columbia University Press. ISBN&#;.
- Dana Gioia, William Jay Smith, ed. (). Poems From Italy. New Rivers Press.
Plays
Awards
- Young Poets prize, Poetry
- Ford fellowship for drama
- Henry Bellamann Major award
- Loines award
- , National Endowment for the Arts grant
- , National Endowment for the Humanities grant
- Gold Medal of Labor (Hungary)
- New England Poetry Club Golden Rose Award
- Ingram Merrill Foundation grant
- California Children's Book and Video Awards recognition for excellence (pre-school and toddlers category), for Ho for a Hat!
- medal (médaille de vermeil) for service to the French language, French Academy
- Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
- twice a nominee for the National Book Award in poetry
- René Vásquez Díaz prize, Swedish Academy