American Poet and Scholar

Camille
Carter

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.

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644: Georgia O’Keeffe, “From the Faraway, Nearby,” 1937

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Forthcoming 2026

Chinook

Winner, 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize

The Best American Poetry 2025

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The Best American Poetry 2025

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Camille Carter

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01  /  About

About
the Poet

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

On the
Work

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.

The Best American Poetry 2025  (Simon & Schuster)
Winner, 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Contest
Hackney Literary Award for National Poetry
2024 Best of the Net Nominee
Two-time finalist, RASH Award in Poetry
Literary Fellow, Chautauqua Institution
Poetry, Raritan, New American Writing, Passages North, North American Review, and more
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

Books &
Anthologies

Best American Poetry 2025
Featured Poet

The Best American Poetry 2025

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.

Simon & Schuster  ·  2025
Guest Editor: Terence Winch  /  Series Editor: David Lehman

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Chinook — Camille Carter
Debut Collection  ·  Forthcoming 2026

Chinook

Winner of the 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize. Poems of landscape, memory, displacement, and what survives passage.

Dynamo Verlag  ·  2026
Winner, 2026 Dynamo Verlag Book Contest

Available 2026

04  /  Poems

Poems

Full Collection →

Featured Poems

Chinook

Originally appeared in Concho River Review

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Hungary, 1956

Originally appeared in Raritan

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Spells and Counterspells

Originally appeared in Raritan

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Now That It’s Over

Originally appeared in New South

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All Night

Originally appeared in Cloudbank

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Ruin

Originally appeared in Catamaran

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Other Published Poems

“Georgia O’Keeffe, From the Faraway, Nearby, 1937” in Poetry Magazine ↗
“Thoughts about Inheritance” in Best American Poetry 2025
“Twilight Exequy” in Palette Poetry
“Loose Thread (I)” in Passages North
“Intimate Cartography” in North American Review
“Seawords” in SWWIM Every Day
“Pandemic in Nineteen Proverbs” in SWWIM Every Day
“Evening Falls” in Literary Matters
“You, Too, Sing America” in Incessant Pipe
“Twilight Exequy” in The Florida Review
“Now You Have Grown Grimm” in Gulf Coast
“Take Me for Autumnal War Cry” in Sugar House Review
“These Things Your Life is Made Of” in New American Writing

05  /  Press

Press &
Features

Selected coverage, podcast appearances, and critical essays.

The New York TimesOctober 2025

Best American Poetry 2025 — NYT Books Review

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

Georgia O'Keeffe, "From the Faraway, Nearby," 1937

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

The Necessity of Claiming Our Poems as Horror

Camille's poem is featured as a central example in this critical essay on horror poetry and the contemporary American lyric.

Egret Editorial

The Poet's Violent Eye — Chapter 1

Egret Editorial features Camille's work in its study of how poetry transforms visual art into language and emotional experience.

Seven Good Things

Georgia O'Keeffe, "From the Faraway, Nearby," 1937

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

Chautauqua Literary Arts Staff Reading

Camille reads as part of the Chautauqua Institution's Literary Arts staff reading, in her role as Literary Fellow.

YouTubeReading

Watch: Camille Carter Reading

Watch Camille read her own work.

06  /  Scholarship

Academic
Work

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

Get in Touch

For readings, collaborations, commissions, or to share a response to the work — Camille welcomes correspondence.

hello@camillecarterpoet.com