Georgia O’Keeffe, “From the Faraway, Nearby,” 1937
Place was a metaphysics; the word “skeleton” meant “home.”
He will not follow you there. You return alone
to New Mexico, to your catacomb, curio cabinet stuffed
with canvases, with corpses.
644: Georgia O’Keeffe, “From the Faraway, Nearby,” 1937
Read and introduced by Ada Limón
Forthcoming 2026
Chinook
Winner, 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize
Photo: Courtesy of Joshua Ha
01 / About
Camille Carter is an American poet, scholar, and traveler. Her debut collection, Chinook, is forthcoming from Dynamo Verlag (2026), where she was the winner of the 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Contest. Her poem "Thoughts about Inheritance" appears in The Best American Poetry 2025, guest edited by Terence Winch (Simon & Schuster). Her poem "Georgia O'Keeffe, 'From the Faraway, Nearby,' 1937" was selected and read by former US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast (APM Studios) and was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.
Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Raritan, New American Writing, Passages North, North American Review, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Five Points, Hotel Amerika, New South, Catamaran, Cloudbank, Sugar House Review, SWWIM Every Day, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Hackney Literary Award for National Poetry, a two-time finalist for the RASH Award in Poetry, and a 2024 Best of the Net nominee.
She is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and has served as Literary Fellow at the Chautauqua Institution. Her scholarly work has appeared in New Political Science (Cambridge University Press).
02 / Poetics
Her work explores what language can and cannot hold — grief, wonder, place, and the interior life. These are poems that sit with history, with elegy, with the strangeness of being alive and abroad and attended to.
Years ago I came to the realization that the most poignant of all lyric tensions stems from the awareness that we are living and dying at once. To embrace such knowledge and yet to remain compassionate and whole — that is the consummation of the endeavor of art.
— Stanley Kunitz, "Reflections," 2020
03 / Books
America's most celebrated annual poetry anthology, featuring Camille's poem "Thoughts about Inheritance." Guest edited by Terence Winch; reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
Order on Amazon →Winner of the 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize. Poems of landscape, memory, displacement, and what survives passage.
Available 202604 / Poems
Featured Poems
Other Published Poems
05 / Press
Selected coverage, podcast appearances, and critical essays.
The New York TimesOctober 2025
The New York Times Book Review highlights the anthology in which Camille's work appears, noting the enduring power of contemporary American poetry.
The SlowdownAda Limón, US Poet Laureate
Former US Poet Laureate Ada Limón selected and read Camille's poem on The Slowdown — one of the most-listened-to poetry podcasts in America, from APM Studios.
Thirty West / Afterimages
Camille's poem is featured as a central example in this critical essay on horror poetry and the contemporary American lyric.
Egret Editorial
Egret Editorial features Camille's work in its study of how poetry transforms visual art into language and emotional experience.
Seven Good Things
Seven Good Things — a widely-read weekly newsletter of creativity and culture — features Camille's poem in full.
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The Chautauquan DailyJuly 2025
Camille reads as part of the Chautauqua Institution's Literary Arts staff reading, in her role as Literary Fellow.
YouTubeReading
Watch Camille read her own work.
06 / Scholarship
Camille is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. Her scholarly work engages questions of translation, political violence, and the lyric.
07 / Contact
For readings, collaborations, commissions, or to share a response to the work — Camille welcomes correspondence.
hello@camillecarterpoet.com