Welcome!
This site will contain many links to some of my favorite poetry sites, an homage to the poet Charles Bukowski [including many of his poems (please don't tell Black Sparrow Press on me) and images], and some of my very own poems and stories.
My name is justin.barrett. I am 27 years old and live in Salt Lake Shitty, UT. I graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville in December, 1996 with a bachelors degree in geology. I also took a minor in astronomy with me. I am currently employed Techson Medical Supply (it doesn't really matter what i do, because i do as little of it as possible, but just enough of it to not get fired). I am married to a beautiful woman named Julee, and we have a dog named Rufus and a snake named Cecil. The dog answers to his name, the snake has no fucking idea who the hell he is.
I write poems and shitty short stories and am presently researching a novel I hope to write in the very near future (I am not currently researching a novel, but it sounds more boss if I say that I am). I have been published a number of times in the small mags, and I always have submissions out to numerous prospective magazines. I also have my own poetry e-zine, remark. Visit the above link and enjoy some poetry from people around the web. Also don't forget to submit some of your own stuff to remark.--please be sure to read the submission guidelines before you submit!!!
My hobbies, apart from writing and reading, include playing basketball, racquetball, hiking and camping, photography and playing disc golf.
My favorite author, as I'm sure you've guessed by now, is Charles Bukowski. My favorite novel by him is "Pulp," my favorite book of his poems is "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame," and my favorite collection of Buk short stories is the City Lights publications "Tales of Ordinary Madness" and "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town," which were originally published in the volume "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness."
Okay enough about me. Now for the good stuff.
I would of course be remiss if I didn't include some links here to my favorite novelist Harry Crews. Not only are his stories unbelievable, fantastic, crazy, weird, outrageous, and funny, but he taught at the University of Florida, where I received my Bachelors, and still lives in Gainesville: