Award-Winning
Books by
Karl Carter Poet

Karl W. Carter, Jr., is a native of New Orleans, and currently resides in Alexandria, Va. As a child he grew up in Los Angeles with his mother, father and two brothers. Karl started writing at the age of 12 years old when he wrote a poem about his little brother. This first poem sparked his passion and love for expressing his words through poetry as an art. He has been writing ever since. As a young boy, he traveled the world with his parents and the different experiences added texture to his poetry. However, he became serious about writing poetry when he was attending law school to become a civil and human rights attorney. Since then, his life has been centered around his two passions: poetry and civil rights justice.

He is the author of Southern Road and Selected Poems which was awarded the 2019 IABA International Book Award from the African American Historical and Genealogical Society and One Broadside, Three Poems (Broadside Press;1972). He is a “Best of the Net” Nominee for 2014.  His poems appear in numerous Anthologies such as: “The Trick Is To Keep On Breathing: Covid 19 Stories From Africa And North American Writers, Vol.3” (Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt. Ltd, 2023),  “Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Vol.1 Africa v. North America”, (Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd 2018), “Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement”, (Duke University Press, 2012), “Freedom In My Heart: Voices from the United States National Slavery Museum” (National Geographic, 2009), “Off the Record: An Anthology of Poems by Lawyers”, (Legal Studies Forum, 2004), “The Poet Upstairs: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets”, (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1979), “Synergy, D.C. Anthology”, (Energy Black South Press, 1978); “Understanding the New Black Poetry”, (William Morrow, 1979), “About Place Journal” (The Black Earth Institute), “The Broadkill Review”, “Delaware Poetry Review”, “Journal of Hip Hop Studies”, “Poetry Pacific,” “Beltway Poetry Quarterly” and “Poet Lore”.