About Howard
Photo by Sheri Carman Hogue
Howard S. Carman, Jr., Ph.D., retired in 2018 after a 32-year career as an R&D chemist at a National Laboratory and Fortune 500 chemical company. A swellheaded scientist, he disdained literature, especially poetry, during his educational and career years. That changed during a spirituality retreat at the Northumbria Community in 2011, when he wrote the first poem he ever kept. He has continued writing since.
He published his first collection of mostly metered and rhymed spiritual poems, But Now I See: Rhymes and Reflections, in 2017. Upon retirement, he joined Poetry Society of Tennessee and now serves on its Board of Directors and the Tennessee Voices Anthology editorial board.
He is presently studying with William G. Wright, Ph.D., writer, editor, educator, and founder of Blue Leaf Writing & Editing, to improve and expand his poetry.
Recent poetry appears in Black Moon Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Braided Way Magazine, Troublesome Rising Digital Anthology, A Places For All Voices Anthology, and Amythest Review (see “Poems” page).
You can learn more at this link to an article in the September 2026 issue of A! Magazine for the Arts
Howard and his wife, Karen, live in Northeast Tennessee. When not reading or writing poetry, Howard can usually be found in a mountain stream or a river tailwater fly fishing for trout.
