*The Collected Poems of Jared Smith: 1971 - 2011* brings together almost 300 poems from 9 books along with over 60 poems that were previously uncollected. After earning degrees in poetry and literature from NYU, Jared spent 30 years in technology research and education, including appointments as a Special Appointee and Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory, and technical and policy advisor to several White House Commissions during the Clinton Administration. Actively involved in poetry for more than 40 years, Jared has served as an Editor, Board Member, and Advisory Board Member of *The New York Quarterly*; as a 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 three reading venues during the 1980s in New York’s Greenwich Village; among other ventures in the arts. Jared now lives with his wife in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, not far from Boulder, Colorado.