Howard Camner

Poet

Miami, FL
Florida US
Email: 
hcamner@aol.com
Website: 
members.authorsguild.net/hcamner

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Tumble Down Road Poems (Cyberwit.net, 2019)
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Poems from the Mud Room: Collected Works 1976 - 2012 (Xlibris Publishing, 2013)
,
Cheating the Sphinx (Tri-State Books, 2005)
,
Hiss (Tri-State Books, 2000)
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Brutal Delicacies (Camelot Publishing Company, 1996)
,
Bed of Nails (Camelot Publishing Company, 1995)
,
Florida in Poetry (Pineapple Press, 1995)
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Jammed Zipper (Camelot Publishing Company, 1994)
,
Banned in Babylon (Camelot Publishing Company, 1993)
,
Stray Dog Wail (Camelot Publishing Company, 1992)
Journals:
Arabesques Press
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Ascent Aspirations
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Audience
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Blue Frederick
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Fluid Ink Press
,
Melic Review
,
MiPo Literary Journal
,
Poetica
,
Poets and Artists
,
Southern Gothic
,
Stellar Showcase
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Taj Mahal Review
,
Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry
Prizes won: 

2007 New Times Poet of the Year "Best of Miami" edition. Inducted into MDC Hall of Fame for Literary Arts. Received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award 2018, Pulitzer Prize nomination 2014, nominated for Poet Laureate of Florida 1980. The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Lyrics preserved in the ARChive of Contemporary Music. Major works preserved in the Emerson Archives. Camner is a Lunar Codex Laureate. His poetry was launched to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Archive of Contemporary Culture / Codex Minerva (to Mons Mouton) and Codex Polaris Archives (Nobile Crater Lunar Region)- March 2025 and summer 2026. Camner is co-editor of the "Sea of Tranquility: a Literary Anthology" also included in the Polaris Archives of the Lunar Codex.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Miami
Raised in: 
Miami, FL
Florida
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Last update: Jun 10, 2026