William Jay Smith | |
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| Born | April 22, 1918 Winnfield, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | August 18, 2015 (aged 97) Lenox, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis (AB, MA) Columbia University Wadham College, Oxford University of Florence |
| Notable awards | American 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.[1]