Britannica.com WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2015
Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
English
Abse, Dannie Dannie Abse and Tony Connor reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, March 30, 1970
An Evening of postwar poetry of The Netherlands and Flanders
Anderson, Lee, 1896-1972 Lee Anderson and Josephine Jacobsen reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Apr. 27, 1970
Beskow, Elsa (Maartman) 1874-1953 Children of the forest
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 Louise Bogan and J.V. Cunningham reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 18, 1968
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 The golden journey; poems for young people
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 The golden journey: poems for young people
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998 John Malcolm Brinnin and Daniel Hoffman reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 2, 1970
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 Gwendolyn Brooks and Katherine Garrison Chapin reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 3, 1969
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 Malcolm Cowley and Theodore Russell Weiss reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, April 7, 1969
Haviland, Virginia, 1911- Children & poetry
Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980 Robert Earl Hayden and Derek Walcott reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 21, 1968
International Poetry Festival (1970 : Washington, D.C.) International Poetry Festival
National Children's Book Week anniversary program
Randall, Julia, 1923- Julia Randall and May Swenson reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Feb. 16, 1970
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 A frame for poetry
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 A rose for Katherine Anne Porter
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Around my room
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Big and little
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Birds and beasts
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Celebration at dark
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Chas potekhi
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Collected poems
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Dancing in the garden
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Enjoyment of poetry. Poetry for children
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Grandmother Ostrich
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Ho for a hat!
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Journey to the Dead Sea
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 L'arbre du voyageur
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Laughing time
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Louise Bogan
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Mr. Smith & other nonsense
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 My friend Tom
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 My little book of big and little
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 New & selected poems
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Plain talk
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Poems from France
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Poems from Italy
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The Cherokee lottery
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The making of poems
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The pirate book
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The Spectra hoax
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The streaks of the tulip
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The telephone
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The tin can
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The traveler's tree
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 The world below the window
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Two lockets
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Typewriter birds
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems and his translations of poems of Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ in the Recording Laboratory, June 9, 1965
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems and his translations of poems of Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ with comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 21, 1966
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems and translations in North Pownal, Vt., April 21, 1958
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems and translations with comment in the Recording Laboratory, March 8, 1978
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems at Potosi, Glen Rock, Pa., July 1, 1951
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems for children in the Recording Laboratory, July 24, 1969
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems in the Mumford Room, Library of Congress, March 16, 2000
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems with comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Dec. 1, 1969
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 William Jay Smith reading his poems with comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 7, 1968
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 Words by the water
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 [Russian poems by André Voznesensky]
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 [Russian poems]
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 An arrow in the wall
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ reading his poems in Russian and making some comment in English in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 29, 1966
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ reading his poems in Russian and making some comment in English in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 27, 1971
Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010 Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ reading his poems in Russian in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 12, 1977
Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017 Prince Souvanna Phouma
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t.p. (translated by William Jay Smith) p. 4 of cover (Consultant in Poetry to LC, 1968-1970)
Esli b mne podarili odnazhdy slona, 1989:
(William Jay Smith; born 22 April 1918, Winnfield, Louisiana, USA; American poet; A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; poet in residence at Williams College from 1959-1967, taught at Columbia University from 1973 until 1975. He serves as the Professor Emeritus of English literature at Hollins University; appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970; as of 2008, he lives in houses located in both Cummington, Massachusetts and Paris, France; Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2015
(in obituary published Aug. 19: William Jay Smith; b. Apr. 22, 1918, Winnfield, La.; d. Tuesday [Aug. 18, 2015], Pittsfield, Mass., aged 97; lived most recently in Lenox, Mass., and also had a home in Paris; former United States poet laureate whose work was known both for its acuteness of observation and acuteness of craftsmanship; served from 1968 to 1970 as the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, as the poet laureate's post was then known; taught at Williams College and Columbia and in the 1980s was poet in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan; at his death he was an emeritus professor of English at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va.; in the 1960s, when he was living in Pownal, Vt., Smith, a Democrat, served a term in the Vermont state legislature)