William Jay Smith (1918–2015) was an American poet. Within historical records, he is distinguished from other notable figures of the same name, including nineteenth-century baseball managers and politicians from Tennessee and Maryland, by his focus on the literary arts. His career as a poet represents a lifelong contribution to American literature, spanning from his birth in the early twentieth century to his passing in the early twenty-first century. Due to the limitations of the source material, specific themes, movements, and individual publications of his poetic corpus remain unspecified, yet his identity remains firmly rooted in his poetic vocation.
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