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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 29/09/2026

I’ve been writing essays lately about my relationship to poetry. Three of them are in @bulbregion.bsky.social today. bulbregion.com/Short-Essays...

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Short Essays on Poetry, by Justin Carter — The Bulb Region

Short Essays on Poetry — Justin Carter Short Essay On Poetry #2 I’m playing the...

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 09/09/2026

It’s release day for Laterals. I hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. 406press.com/product/late...

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Laterals - .406 Press

Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 09/09/2026

Buy this today (or before today, but not after) & I’ll send you a PDF of my first book.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 09/09/2026

It’s release day for Laterals. I hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. 406press.com/product/late...

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Laterals - .406 Press

Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.

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Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

you should send me some words somewordslit@gmail.com still a few August spots left

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 28/07/2026

started a new project, what I’m calling micro sometimes-lyric craft essays first one I’ve published is up today at Sabr Tooth Tiger www.sabrtoothtigermagazine.com/almanac-07-2...

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july 2026: on feathers — Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 28/07/2026

started a new project, what I’m calling micro sometimes-lyric craft essays first one I’ve published is up today at Sabr Tooth Tiger www.sabrtoothtigermagazine.com/almanac-07-2...

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july 2026: on feathers — Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 08/07/2026

NEW BOOK PREORDERS my new collection Laterals is now open for preorders I like to describe these poems as “sports adjacent” — there is sports in every poem but they’re about understanding the self through sports 406press.com/product/late...

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Laterals - .406 Press

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 08/07/2026

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Laterals - .406 Press

Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 04/07/2026

celebrate the america day with this short story about the most american thing there is: scratch-off lotto tickets mcrb.neocities.org/scratchoff

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Scratch Off Tickets by Justin Carter

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Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

submission call: scary shit month

OCTOBER: SCARY SHIT MONTH

Send Some Words your scariest stuff for October. Poems, short stories, whatever — just make it scary.

Send to: somewordslit@gmail.com & put “Scary Shit” in the subject field.

Doing something different with this call: I’ll be scheduling in reverse. First acceptance goes up October 31, second on October 30, etc. The call is full either when October is filled up with scary shit, or when I fill September with normal stuff & have to start scheduling normal stuff into October.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 26/05/2026

Shared this on some other sites so should do it here too. I have a new book coming out later this year. It’s a collection of what I call “sports-adjacent” poems, poems that use sports & fandom to explore the self, fatherhood, etc, etc. Here’s the cover. It’s called Laterals.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 14/05/2026

new poem! it's a long, winding journey that begins by thinking about twitter & ends with listening to my friend's death metal band in his mom's car gonzoid.neocities.org/JustinCarter

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The First Tweet I Remember Sending by Justin Carter

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 14/05/2026

new poem! it's a long, winding journey that begins by thinking about twitter & ends with listening to my friend's death metal band in his mom's car gonzoid.neocities.org/JustinCarter

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The First Tweet I Remember Sending by Justin Carter

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 22/03/2026

hey poets of this website doing an all-poetry month at @somewordslit.bsky.social for National Poetry Month still a few open spots send me a poem to somewordslit@gmail.com for consideration

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"All I can think is this is the fucking life as a man jumps onto a trampoline and falls through it, keeps falling through the earth itself, forever, his whole body eventually shattered into nothing by the core." @juscarts.com mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · 03/03/2026

O I think we all need an invocation right now, and Some Words just published mine...Part I of V, the thread continues every Tuesday in March...hope you find something in it... Many thanks to @somewordslit.bsky.social via THE ADMIN @juscarts.com Invoke here: somewords.boards.net/thread/86/br...

EXTRINSIC INVOCATION
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O Booze, grant me the blabability to splatter a story under a deadline lest I die with an awkward rhyme, --> the rest of the prose poem is at the link!

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 21/02/2026

Back in the early 2010s I went through a flarf poetry phase. This week I found a new journal called I MISS FLARF, so I sent a curated selection of my old tweets to them. imissflarf.neocities.org/justincarter

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Justin Carter - I MISS FLARF

Google Docs Document From 2011 Titled ‘flarfable tweets’ by Justin Carter on I MISS FLARF

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Her Hoop Stats @herhoopstats.com · 20/02/2026

Colorado has had a really good two weeks. Big 12 Roundup by @juscarts.com: herhoopstats.substack.com

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 12/02/2026

Feels so weird that it's Daytona 500 weekend & I won't be writing anything about NASCAR over the next few days.

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Karissa @kmortoncarter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Over at @somewordslit.bsky.social, I just published my first poem after a seven year hiatus 😅 It’s about my son & Patrick Mahomes’ knee & about how the Super Bowl sucks this year. It’d mean a lot to me if y’all checked it out 💞

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 06/02/2026

First agent rejection. I don’t want to do this, like, 50 more times so if someone wants to just, like, be my agent…hit me up.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 27/01/2026

Unfortunately, my time with RotoBaller has come to an unexpected end. If anyone knows of any paid, part-time roles in the fantasy sports or women's basketball space, please let me know.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 27/01/2026

Unfortunately, my time with RotoBaller has come to an unexpected end. If anyone knows of any paid, part-time roles in the fantasy sports or women's basketball space, please let me know.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 07/01/2026

3 poems in Michigan City Review of Books: "Listening To The DVD Menu For Red Vs. Blue Repeat All Night At Joey’s Birthday Party" "Thinking About The Tim McGraw Album Set This Circus Down (2001)" "Hearing Booty Wurk While Walking My Son Down The Greenbelt Trail" mcrb.neocities.org/ThreePoems_J...

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Three Poems by Justin Carter

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Three Poems by Justin Carter

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 31/12/2025

2025 publications thread — I published some things, so here are the things First, two poems in Trampoline. One's about the XFL & the other is about the Cleveland Browns. @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social www.trampolinepoetry.com/issue-26

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 28/12/2025

Thinking of picking an early 20th century novelist to read a lot of in 2026. Right now I’m between Cather, Hemingway, & Fitzgerald.

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 28/12/2025

2026 writing goals: - give novel #1 a final pass through & start querying agents - figure out the structure of novel #2 & try to have a first draft done by the end of 2026 - write at least two poems every week - work on some longer (4-6k word) short stories

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Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

doing a special call for football pieces

THE SOME WORDS BIG GAME SPECIAL

I used to run my own football forum. In the spirit of that, I want to publish some football stuff on the morning of the Super Bowl. IDK how many things I’ll publish. If I like, I’ll probably say yes.

HOW TO SUBMIT: email me a piece + a bio to somewordslit@gmail.com

DEADLINE: January 23rd, because I want these submitted before the conference championship games

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Read a new poem by me here: somewords.boards.net/thread/27/sa... "No Religion Has Found Me," title from Ruth Baumann's "Medley, Societal" from "One Thousand Ars Poeticas," available from @sixthfinch.bsky.social . Thanks to @somewordslit.bsky.social & @juscarts.com for giving this one a home!

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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 13/12/2025

If the last place I taught had this rule, I would have been suspended because a student couldn't find the right classroom & complained to my department that I must have secretly moved the entire class to a different room.

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