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

Born on the same birth date (22 April 1918): Mickey Vernon

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Ana María Shua • Dee Strange-Gordon • Doug Jarrett • Eric Fenby • Indro Montanelli • Jan de Hartog • John Buchanan (Canadian politician) • John Maples • José Quiñones Gonzales • Michael Atiyah • Mickey Vernon • Ray Guy (humorist) • Robert Choquette • Robert Wade-Gery • William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

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