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Justin Carter

@juscarts.com
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Author of Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024) // women's basketball & motorsports writer // Texan living in Iowa // juscarts.com

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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 · 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 · 20/09/2026
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 14/09/2026
New poem. It’s a sonnet & it’s probably a bit more lyrical than my work usually is. dodoeraser.org/2026/09/14/l...
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Lines Composed Pulled Over In The Parking Lot After Picking Up Dinner
Fire department outside the wedding venue.All we want is a little blood, & thena little more. I’ve never been greedy enough. Pick up Raising Cane’s then circle back,see the lights still there f…
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 14/09/2026
New poem. It’s a sonnet & it’s probably a bit more lyrical than my work usually is. dodoeraser.org/2026/09/14/l...
dodoeraser.org
Lines Composed Pulled Over In The Parking Lot After Picking Up Dinner
Fire department outside the wedding venue.All we want is a little blood, & thena little more. I’ve never been greedy enough. Pick up Raising Cane’s then circle back,see the lights still there f…
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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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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 01/09/2026
my new book comes out in a little over a week 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
Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 08/07/2026
electronic review copies available if you’re a reviewer — just shoot me a DM
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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...
406press.com
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 · 27/05/2026
Workshopped so many titles sitting on the couch with my wife & when I said this one, we both were like “OMG”
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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.
Cover for Justin Carter’s Laterals
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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.
Cover for Justin Carter’s Laterals
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 15/05/2026
Got interviewed by @andrewcareaga.bsky.social andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/15/f...
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Friday Five: some words with Justin Carter
‘Everything starts, in some way, with my life, and then the question becomes if I want to dive into my life or not’
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 15/05/2026
Another new poem today. plaguecircuspress.com/i-had-the-dr...
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I Had The Dream Again, Where I’m Driving From The Backseat 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 · 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 · 12/05/2026
Three new poems in @bulbregion.bsky.social today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...
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Three Poems, by Justin Carter — The Bulb Region
Three Poems — Justin Carter Artificial Intelligence Sometimes I watch AI videos...
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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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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 11/03/2026
4) The Earthen Dark - Brad Kelly
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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 · 25/02/2026
New prose poem about chicken salad. www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
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chicken salad by justin carter — scaffold literary magazine
prose poetry
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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 · 17/02/2026
Three new poems. drecklit.neocities.org/justincarter
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The web site of drecklit
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 16/02/2026
3) Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash
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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 · 31/01/2026
2) Chelsea Girls - Eileen Myles
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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 · 24/01/2026
1) My Eyes - Z.H. Gill
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 24/01/2026
2026 books thread.
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 14/01/2026
New poem about yogurt. dodoeraser.org/2026/01/14/i...
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I’m Naked On A Barn Floor Covered In Green Yogurt
which is not a metaphor for fear, nor is it something sexual: only the reality of the situation. Josh is working on a photo series about rebirth for his capstone & I’ve volunteered as a subject…
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 12/01/2026
New poem today in BRUISER about a lot of things — parenting, Alan Jackson, a dude throwing shoes at his own truck at a stop sign. www.bruisermag.com/carter_shoes
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WE WERE PULLING OUT OF THE BREWERY & SAW A MAN THROWING SHOES AT THE SIDE OF HIS OWN TRUCK by Justin Carter - BRUISER
& we sat there longer than we should have & a woman emerged from the truck & started walking down the street & we drove away from them &
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 12/01/2026
New poem today in BRUISER about a lot of things — parenting, Alan Jackson, a dude throwing shoes at his own truck at a stop sign. www.bruisermag.com/carter_shoes
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WE WERE PULLING OUT OF THE BREWERY & SAW A MAN THROWING SHOES AT THE SIDE OF HIS OWN TRUCK by Justin Carter - BRUISER
& we sat there longer than we should have & a woman emerged from the truck & started walking down the street & we drove away from them &
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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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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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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 05/01/2026
New short story. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-night-ri...
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“The Night Richie Thomas Burned Down Jim’s Pizza” by Justin Carter.
Out-of-state developers bought the whole southwest corner of Pine and 3rd Street. This was in, what…2011, maybe? Long enough ago that no one can really tell you the exact order all the businesses o…
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 05/01/2026
New short story. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-night-ri...
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“The Night Richie Thomas Burned Down Jim’s Pizza” by Justin Carter.
Out-of-state developers bought the whole southwest corner of Pine and 3rd Street. This was in, what…2011, maybe? Long enough ago that no one can really tell you the exact order all the businesses o…
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 01/01/2026
105) Visitors From The Red Star - August Smith
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