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 [email protected] 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...

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...

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.

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 💞

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.

2026 books thread.

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...

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

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

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

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

doing a special call for football pieces

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!

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.

send your words to my journal!!

New short story out today. It’s about poker & drugs & a swimming pool. hawkeyemag.com/stories/poke...

New poem up today at Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#chemical-pla...

Clover County’s Finer Things.

THIS WEEK'S SOME WORDS SCHEDULE

BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL. Send us some of your words by the end of the day & I promise to eventually read the words & get back to you. somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...

My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.

Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board. Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines. somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...

I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board. Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing

Who will send the first submission since our launch? Will it be YOU?

My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.

Doing an online reading Tuesday. Hit me up for the link if you want to watch.

Looking at my novel for the first time in a couple of weeks & I suddenly think it's actually extremely good.

okay so... "theoretically" if you like this idea & would be interested in being published in it at launch before submissions open then you should like this post