Kevin Hart's Carnets presents six hundred one-line poems written over twenty-six years. Sometimes aphoristic, sometimes lyrical, and sometimes fragmentary, these poems touch on almost every aspect of human life, from nature to God, from pain to joy, from the sensual to the mysterious. These are poems you will want to commit to memory, to quote to friends and family, and sometimes to live by.

Kevin Hart is the author of ten collections of poems, most recently Firefly (2026), along with several editions of selected poems, including Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (2015). His poetry has won a wide range of awards. He teaches in the Divinity School at Duke University.