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Publications
 

Poetry Collection

 

Requiem in Wide-Open Minor
 

CavanKerry Press, early 2027 release

 

Individual Poems - Forthcoming

 

GrainSouthern Poetry Review

A Quarter North, The Lascaux Review

 

Of Winter and FirePoetry in Plain Sight
 

Individual Poems - Published

Origin Story, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025 (U.K.)

JanuaryCider Press Review, February 2025

 

Morning Notes, Last Day of August and It's Okay, Dad, SWING, Fall/Winter 2024

 

Storm, Early January, North American Review, Vol. 309, No. 2, Fall 2024

 

Out My Office Window, the Rustle of Rain, Cider Press Review, Vol. 26.4, October 2024

 

OutboundSolstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2024

Take It, The Lascaux Review, August 2024

 

Elegy at Ebbtide and A Quarter North, Southern Poetry Review, Issue 62:1, 2024

Anna Belle, 1869-1919 and Childhood, San Pedro River Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 2024

 

Threading Eons, Late July, Poetry in Plain Sight, July 2024

Origin Story, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2024

The Ballast of Old PhotosCrosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume X, 2024

 

Ghost Poker, Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, Issue 3, Spring 2024

 

On the Way Back to Town, South Dakota Review, Volume 58, Number 2, 2024

 

Visiting My Son in the 14th Year of His Death, Pedestal Magazine, Issue 93, March 2024

Instructions for Writing to My Son on The Tenth Anniversary of His Death, Harpur Palate, 
    
Issue 22.2, Fall/Winter 2024

 

The Dark in Which I've Lately Dwelt, Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2023

 

Heimat, The MacGuffin, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, Fall 2023

Of Winter and Fire, Four Way Review, Issue 28, Fall 2023

 

Mowing, Terrain.org, November 2023

 

Winter Predawn Rites, Ibbetson Street, Issue 53, Summer 2023

 

Early SpringCloudbank, Issue 17, 2023

 

This Theft of Water and Dust, of Stars, Cider Press Review, Volume 25.2, June 2023 

 

Today We Hauled Your Toys from the Attic, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 239, May-Aug 2023

Argentina, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. IX, 2023

 

The Way It Is Here, Barrow Street, Winter 2022-23

 

The Squatter, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 233, Jan-Apr 2023

Still Quitting Kansas, ASP Bulletin, Issue 5, January 2023

Walking at Dusk, Chautauqua, Issue 20.1, Winter 2022-23

 

If I Get Alzheimer's: Instructions for My Wife, South 85 Journal, Winter 2022

 

The Graves You Refuse to Fill, Puerto del Sol, Issue 57.2, Fall/Winter 2022

 

The Summer We Left, American Literary Review, Fall 2022

Toward the End of March, The Lascaux Review, October 2022

 

At the Missouri Pacific Depot, Where, in 1931, You Holed Up for Three Days and Drank,
    
Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2022

 

On the Medicine River, River Styx, Issue 105/106, Fall 2022

 

How Time Works on the Southern Plains, The Lascaux Review, September 2022

Trek, San Pedro River Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2022

 

As I Remember It, Mom, Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2022

 

When I Noticed, at LastThe Baltimore Review, Spring 2022

Remember, The Journal, Vol. 45.2, Spring 2022

Sundown CigarCarve Magazine, Spring 2022

Why I Flinch at the Thought of Daylight SquanderedNorth Carolina Literary Review Online, 

     Winter 2022

You've Turned into My Backyard Table, Daddy, Sugar House Review, No. 23, Winter 2021

Slags of Cloud, a Cold Wind and Night After Night, the Flicker of TVs from Neighbors'
      Windows, 
Crab Creek Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, 2021

The Art of Saving, Chautauqua, Issue 19.1, 2021

4 AM, at the Bay Window We Never Had, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VII, Fall 2021

The Fire God, The New York Quarterly, Issue 67.3, October 2021

After Reading Charles Wright, Terrain.org, October 2021

 

Night WalkMidwest Review, Issue 9, 2021

Upon Learning of Your Death, I Peer into the Wrong End of a Telescope, San Pedro River Review, 
      
Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2021

If I Could Trace Again the Honed, Flat-End Blade, Solstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2021

Twister Dream and Tare Weight, Ibbetson Street, Issue 49, Summer 2021

Prayer from a 1952 Chevy Suburban, Cider Press Review, Vol. 23, Issue 2, June 2021

My Massage Therapist Says She Hears Trains Inside Me, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VI, 2021

The Only Holy, Bellingham Review, Issue 82, Spring 2021

 

The Winter of Your Flu and Sundown at Huntington, Arts & Letters, Issue 42, Spring 2021
 

Every Day, I Think of Those Years, Five Points, Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 2020

Waty Watson, Railroad Engineer, Bridport Prize Anthology (U.K.) , 2020

June, 1969Vietnam War Poetry, August 2020

 

Last Steam Locomotive, Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2020
 

Driving, Chautauqua, Issue 17, 2020

We Were Seventeen, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. V, 2020

Cotton RatsSouthword (Ireland), March 2020

 

Knife and Salt, New Ohio Review, Issue 27, Spring 2020

Afternoon on Slate Creek, Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2019

 

While Dreaming of Our Old House, I Speak to My Wife, The Florida Review, Vol. 43, Number 1, 2019

Fall Fest Parade, Some Years Before My Mother's Death, Strokestown Poetry Anthology (Ireland),
      2019

At the Rainbach and In Vienna's StadtparkArts & Letters, Issue 38, Spring 2019

Terry: 1950 - 1970, The New Guard, Vol. VII, 2018

Auguri, DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018

Quitting Kansas, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Fifteenth Annual Issue, 2017

 

Aurora Borealis, Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2017

 

Somewhere South of Coldwater, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2017

 

Dr. Lilly’s Clowns and Detox, Kakalak 2016, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

 

On Nights Like This, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Vol 15: 2016

 

Gasoline and Liquor, Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2016

 

Reclamation, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. I, 2016

 

My Mother, My Father, The Freshwater Review, Spring 2015, Vol. 19 and online
      
at WinningWriters.com, April 2016

 

Nocturne, Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2015, Vol. 40.2

 

Oblivion, The Atlanta Review, Fall 2015 Poetry Issue, Vol. XXII, No. 1

 

Two West and a Half South, Comstock Review, Fall 2015

 

Autumn, Huntington Beach, Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015

Who Looks for YouKakalak 2015, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

Of Light and TimeKansas City Voices, September 2015, Vol. 13

 

Cold Night in March, Pooled Ink, Northern Colorado Writers, 2014

 

Baseball, Kakalak 2014, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

 

Half-Light, Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2013

 

On the Phone with Kansas, What Matters, Jacar Press, 2013

 

Requiem in Wide-Open Minor, Kakalak 2013, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

 

Prose


Cold War PrairieMichigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring 2021

 

Of Roller Skates, Hogs and My Father, South Dakota Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, Fall 2018

Uncle JohnHeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 5, Summer 2018

Showman's Pasture, DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018

Last Haircut with Fred Owens, Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015

 

 

Awards

 

Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, 2025

 

Finalist, Wandering Aengus Book Award, 2025

 

Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2024

 

Finalist, 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, 2024

Short List, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2024

Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2024

Third Prize, Narrative Poetry Contest, Naugatuck River Review, 2024

Editors' Pick, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2024

Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2024

Finalist, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Poetry, 2024

 

Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2023

Finalist, John Ridland Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2023

 

1st Place, Live Canon International Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2023

Finalist, The Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry, I-70 Review, 2023

 

1st Runner-Up, Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry, South 85 Journal, 2022

 

Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2022

 

1st Prize in Poetry, Porter Fleming Literary Competition, 2021

Finalist, Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry, New Letters, 2021

Finalist, Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, 2021

Editors' Pick, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2021

Finalist, James Applewhite Poetry Prize, North Carolina Literary Review, 2021

 

Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2021

 

2nd Place, International Poetry Contest, River Styx, 2020

 

Long List, National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society (U.K.), 2020

 

Highly Commended, Bridport Prize for Poetry (U.K.), 2020

 

2nd Place, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2020

 

Finalist, NORward Prize for Poetry, New Ohio Review, 2020

Finalist, Great Midwest Poetry Contest, Midwest Review, 2020

 

Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2020

Short List, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2019/20

 

Finalist, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2019 

 

Finalist, Rumi Prize for Poetry, Arts & Letters, 2018

 

Commendation, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2017/18

Finalist, Nonfiction Award, American Literary Review, 2017

 

Finalist, Knightville Poetry Contest, The New Guard, 2017

Honorable Mention, Oberon Poetry Prize, 2017

 

Long List, Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Prize (U.K.)

 

International Merit Award, The Atlanta Review, 2017

 

Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2017

 

Long List, Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2017

Finalist, Poet Laureate Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2017

 

Finalist, Dana Award in Poetry, 2016

 

Honorable Mention, Kakalak Poetry Prize, 2016

 

International Publication Prize, The Atlanta Review, 2015 and 2016

 

Finalist, Dogwood Literary Prize, 2016

 

Honorable Mention, 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

 

Honorable Mention, 6th Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest, 2015

 

1st Runner Up, Editors’ Prize, Spoon River Poetry Review, 2015

 

1st Place, Whispering Prairie Press Poetry Prize, 2015

 

2nd Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, Comstock Review, 2015

 

© 2025 by Justin Hunt, text and photos

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