Durell Carter is an Oklahoma-based poet, educator, and performer whose work explores identity, surrealism, Black boyhood, and the emotional landscapes of modern America. He is the author of the chapbook Mr. Monday Morning’s Broken Songs and Testimonies.

Carter’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Wild Roof Journal, Posit, Rising Phoenix Review, Fauxmoir, and Rawhead Journal. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and he has received recognition for his dynamic voice on both the page and the stage. He is also a Woody Guthrie poet, continuing a tradition of socially engaged writing rooted in truth and lived experience.

An Oklahoma Writing Project Fellow, Carter is deeply committed to fostering literary community and empowering emerging writers. Whether in the classroom or on stage, his work bridges performance and craft, inviting audiences to confront, reflect, and feel deeply.

Selected Works Published

Vies From the Red-Light Aquarium and others Rawhead Journal

The Occipital Love Exercise Wild Roof Journal

The Aftertaste eMerge Magazine

Interview with eMerge Magazine

Taste Bud Turnover The Rising Phoenix Review

The Eight Things That Kendrick vs Drake Taught Me The Rising Phoenix Review

Wolf Breath Season Midway Journal

I Used to be Decent at Performing Holiness Drunk Monkeys

Always the Roses Petrichor Magazine #11

The Boy vs The Moon Prometheus Dreaming

Social Identity Theory Midway Journal

Prosciutto Wrapped MelonTempered Runes Press

Visiting Winfield in My 30’sIn Parentheses

The Ghosts Still Live Here In Parentheses

I Used to be Motivated by LoveFauxmoir

Midnight VelvettoViewless Wings

There's Mold in the Attic and They Want Me to Smile Prometheus Unbound 2021

It Was My Second Day Vacationing in Vegas, and I Was Home Posit #35