Justin Carter

Hey. I wrote a book. You can buy it directly from the publisher. It's poems about growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast & touches on the political divide between me & the conservative world I grew up in. Buy it here: bellepointpress.com/products/bra... #booksky

read my villanelle 💀💀💀

read my villanelle 💀💀💀

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

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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New poem. It’s a sonnet & it’s probably a bit more lyrical than my work usually is. dodoeraser.org/2026/09/14/l...

New poem. It’s a sonnet & it’s probably a bit more lyrical than my work usually is. dodoeraser.org/2026/09/14/l...

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

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

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

my new book comes out in a little over a week 406press.com/product/late...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

submission call: scary shit month

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.

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.

Got interviewed by @andrewcareaga.bsky.social andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/15/f...

Another new poem today. plaguecircuspress.com/i-had-the-dr...

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

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

Three new poems in @bulbregion.bsky.social today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

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

"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...

New prose poem about chicken salad. www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

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

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

Three new poems. drecklit.neocities.org/justincarter

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

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.

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.

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.

New poem about yogurt. dodoeraser.org/2026/01/14/i...

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

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

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...

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...

New short story. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-night-ri...

New short story. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-night-ri...