title: Jared Carter
text: Jared Carter (born January 10, 1939) is an American poet.
  
  Background
  Carter studied at Yale University. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969.
  
  Work
  Carter writes in free verse and in traditional forms. Much of his early work is set in Mississinewa County, an imaginary place that includes the actual Mississinewa River. In recent years, as Carter began to publish his poems on the web, his poetry has ranged farther.
  
  His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize. His poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and in the Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry,  and Writing Poems.
  
  References 
  
  1939 births
  Living people
  American poets
  Writers from Indianapolis
  Yale University alumni