William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. ^{William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (d. 2015)}

22 April 1918

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