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Posts by Justin Carter

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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4) The Earthen Dark - Brad Kelly

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"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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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!

EXTRINSIC INVOCATION I. 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!

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...

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chicken salad by justin carter — scaffold literary magazine prose poetry

New prose poem about chicken salad.

www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

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

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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Colorado has had a really good two weeks.

Big 12 Roundup by @juscarts.com: herhoopstats.substack.com

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The web site of drecklit

Three new poems.

drecklit.neocities.org/justincarter

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3) Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash

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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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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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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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2) Chelsea Girls - Eileen Myles

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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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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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1) My Eyes - Z.H. Gill

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2026 books thread.

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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…

New poem about yogurt.

dodoeraser.org/2026/01/14/i...

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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 &

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 &

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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Three Poems by Justin Carter

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

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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“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…

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…

New short story.

citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-night-ri...

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105) Visitors From The Red Star - August Smith

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Issue 26 — TRAMPOLINE

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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I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE: an anthology incited by Terry Allen’s JUAREZ cycle I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE: an anthology incited by Terry Allen’s JUAREZ cycle [Van Winkle, Adam, Van Winkle, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE: an anthology incited by Terry Allen’s JUAREZ cycle

Of the "not available online" variety, I had a short story based on a Terry Allen album but made into cyberpunk in this @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social anthology.

www.amazon.com/FEEL-JUST-LI...

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Eulogy Press A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.

& finally, I had a short story about a brewery closing in Eulogy.

eulogy.press#justin-carte...

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Poker Night 1987 Sometimes I think the only thing I’m good at is destroying everything beautiful. We met Lopez and Rita out at Bowie Beach. They were a couple of city slickers who didn’t know that you can’t drive a Co...

I had a short story about poker & cocaine in HAWKEYE.

hawkeyemag.com/stories/poke...

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Eulogy Press A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.

I had a prose poem about the beauty of petrochemical refineries in Eulogy.

eulogy.press#chemical-pla...

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