Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. Independent. No ads. For the community. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ต๐ธ
Jami @jamipadgett.bsky.social teacher - poet - literacy worker - queer (she/they) - neurodivergent
jamipadgett.com
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 ๐| Mayah ๐ถ | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
๐Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social).
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social Wild & Precious Life is a virtual poetry reading series. Visit wildandpreciouslifeseries.com for more information.- N ๐บ๐ธ @n976wow.bsky.social
Kasey Jueds @kaseyryoen.bsky.social poet, probably covered in dog hair | she/her | books: KEEPER & THE THICKET (both Pitt Poetry)
Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (2021) and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (2015). Pushcart Prize (2018). Best New Poets (2014) Editorial Assistant @Seneca Review. https://christophercitro.com
D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social submerging poet, dad, editor ~ place, bodies, belonging, the end of the world ~ masthead @VariantLit.bsky.social @PhillyChapbook.bsky.social ~ he/him ~
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Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social Author of Meltwater (Milkweed 2023), Redmouth (Tinderbox 2019), and Wilder (Milkweed 2018). McKnight writing fellow. Winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize and The Crystal Shrek. She/her. Twin Cities. Linktr.ee/wahmanholm
aษrik francis @phaentompoet.bsky.social poet based in Denver, CO, USA
author of BODYPOLITIC (forthcoming with Abode Press in March 2026) MISEDUCATION (New Delta Review, 2023) and BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department, 2022)
phaentompoet.com
linktr.ee/aerik
Alice White @poetalicewhite.bsky.social Poet/human in Nova Scotia, Canada
www.poetalicewhite.com
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Rebecca Brock @wordsbyrb.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Mama. Stewardess. Always homesick, never at home.
Words in Threepenny Review, River Heron Review, Rust + Moth, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Whale Road Review & elsewhere.
Author of โThe Way Land Breaksโ
https://www.rebeccabrock.org
PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social LA Poet/ Latinx Author of 6 books including La Belle Ajar with CLASHBooks, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegria Publishing and La Lengua Inside Me from FlowerSong Press
ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social a journal of poetry and more poetry and more poetry | editors @jacobschepers.bsky.social & Sara Judy | submissions always open | issue 3.1 out now | ballastjournal.com
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social (she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
Diana Cao @dianacao.bsky.social poet/lawyer. she/they.
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Sebastian Pรกramo @sebastianparamo.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF US BURNING from Northwestern UP โข Founding Editor The Boiler โข He/Him
https://linktr.ee/sebastianparamo
RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social Independently published journal of poetry, translation, and flash. Crashing and creating for 50 years. ๐ฆ
rhinopoetry.org/
Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Shelley Wong @shelleywong.bsky.social poet โข author of AS SHE APPEARS (2022), National Book Award longlist, Lambda Literary Award ๐
shelley-wong.com
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social ๐ NAACP Image Award nominated debut, โSong of My Softeningโ OUT NOW ๐ฑ PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg
"Worth the wait." โRon Charles, The Washington Post ๐๐พ
https://linktr.ee/omotarajames/?fbclid=PAAaY1S3Las3Dwvt9XE5-EtE
Haolun Xu @haolunxu.bsky.social poet and fiction writer โ
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writing in Narrative, Gulf Coast, and more.
website is haolunxu.com
IG: xuhaolun
Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
โข TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
โข DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
โข IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Leslie Sainz @lesannsai.bsky.social author of HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (Tin House, 2023), NEA fellow, managing editor of New England Review (she/her) ๐จ๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ariana Benson // the Word Hashira โ๏ธโ๐พ @arianab.bsky.social poet, essayist, animรฉ fan, cozy gamer, sportsball enthusiast, tree hugger, multivariate nerd ๐ฏ
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป
my๐: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
Sarah Ghazal Ali @sarahali.bsky.social poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) โข poetry editor of West Branch โข more at sarahgali.com ๐
J. Estanislao Lopez @estanislaopoet.bsky.social Author of WE BORROWED GENTLENESS (Alice James Books), winner of the Zacharis first book award. Link: https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/we-borrowed-gentleness Poems in New Yorker, Poetry, Rumpus, and elsewhere
Aditi Machado @aditimachado.bsky.social Poet of EMPORIUM and SOME BEHEADINGS (both Nightboats). Does translation, essay writing, teaching, gardening, wine consumption.
George Abraham ๐ @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | ๐ BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & ๐ต๐ธ poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/ูู
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +๐ Host of @slowdownshow.org
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet ๐
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social poet and artist / currently a stegner fellow at stanford... my brain lives rent free in my head
K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Belovedโs Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) ๐ฅ
C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social Nonbinary. Latinx. Mississippi. Author of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022). Director of University Archives. Organize Mississippi.
https://forms.gle/PGtesyZR2wCaxtV58
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola gradโs dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social Loves books. Writes poems.
She/her
For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree
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Former poet:jason b crawford @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social I write things YEET! Out from Omnidawn
Shล Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Arizona-based nonprofit print journal. We publish an eclectic stew of poetry and award prizes for each issue. Submissions reopen December 15. Ed. @domkeykong.bsky.social + @johnnycordova.bsky.social. shopoetryjournal.com
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social she/they | CripplePunk butch trans woman | author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound & DEED | faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop | Bookings:
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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Letras Latinas Blog 2 @letraslatinasblog2.bsky.social Letras Latinas Blog 2 (LLB2) offers insight and commentary on contemporary letters, especially poetry. We aspire to publish reviews, interviews, brief essays, and roundtable discussions.
https://www.letraslatinasblog2.com/
Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social House of Myth & Necessity, coming 2026. Bullet Points: A Lyric, River River Books. Work in Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, $ (Poetry is Currency), Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Parhelion, Cagibi. Jenniferasutherland.com
Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social latinx poet haunted by borders โฆ he/him โฆ researcher @assistedlab.bsky.social
linktr.ee/carlosapittella
Dante's Bureau (Anstruther, '26)
propersitions (Cactus, '25)
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