Jared Smith

The Collected Poems of Jared Smith: 1971-2011

The Collected Poems of Jared Smith brings together almost 300 poems from 9 books along with over 60 poems that were previously uncollected.  After earning degrees in poetry and literature, Jared spent 30 years in technology research and education, including appointments as a Special Appointee and Adviser to Argonne National Laboratory, and technical and policy adviser to several White House Commissions during the Clinton Administration.  Actively involved in poetry for more than 40 years, Jared has served an an Editor, Board Member, and AdvisoryBoard Member of The New York Quarterly; as Contributing Editor for Home Planet News; as Poetry Editor of Trail & Timberline; and several time Guest Editor of The Pedestal Magazine; as well as past President of Poets & Patrons in Chicago, and host of several poetry venues in Greenwich Village during the 1980s.  He now lives outside Boulder, Colorado.