Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 www.hanvanderhart.com
Hannah Craig @hrcraig.bsky.social writer • printmaker • Pittsburgh • she/her • latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review • hrcraig.com
Mack @rogerthatmack.bsky.social Poems | Earthseed | Black trans lives matter | All Colors Are Beautiful | Poetry Reader - Split Lip Magazine
h/t | Raleigh, NC
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
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social poet laureate of the gay nude beach.
Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). my pronouns are secret. Seattle. allysonang.com
Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social).
CEASEFIRE NOW FREE PALESTINE. 🍉 🖕🧊
Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).
https://www.patreon.com/nikkiwallschlaeger
Stephanie Kaylor @stemkay.bsky.social 
Zefyr Rose Lisowski @zefrrr.bsky.social poet :) essayist :) horror girl :) transsexual :)
Books: Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019), Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024), Uncanny Valley Girls (Harper Perennial 2025)
zeflisowski.com
Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social Deaf. Cherokee. Writer.
My book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is available from Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everything-That-Hurt-Us-Becomes-a-Ghost
Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Lecturer at University of North Texas.
Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social NEA fellow • MTG articles @ EDHREC • Events guy for @gamershaunt.bsky.social • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
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:
Blue Flower Arts
Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free
summer farah @summ.bsky.social author of I COULD DIE TODAY & LIVE AGAIN (Game Over Books) + THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications) 💜| 🇵🇸 summerfarah.com
Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social Poet, humanist. Former librarian, writing center director, also taught college. We Know Each Other By Our Wounds (Animal Heart Press, 2020) and Pushcart nominated.
Former poet:jason b crawford @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social I write things YEET! Out from Omnidawn
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
Tarik Dobbs @tarikd.xyz assistant professor of English (creative writing-poetry) | running poetry.onl | poems: Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024); Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, forthcoming) | 🏳️🌈🇱🇧🇸🇾 | 🇵🇸
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
Sara Eliza Johnson @saraelizaj.bsky.social author of BONE MAP (National Poetry Series/Milkweed 2014) and VAPOR (Milkweed 2022), vagabond, black hole, all around disappointment
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Kenning JP García @kjpgarcia.bsky.social Ace Afro-Absurdist Juyorican diarist, monologuer, and pansy.
(xe/xyr // one)
Noah Stetzer @noahstetzer.bsky.social editor @BullCityPress | #SLC #PGH | he/him/his 🏳️🌈 👬🏻
Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social Switch hitting witch. Cubs poet. Books at TAMU Press & Sundress Publications. Writing: Ecotone Magazine, Blackbird, Fansided. Former Poetry Ed at River Styx. George Mason MFA.
Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social Wanderer, Writer, woman-about-town. Stories in various places. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/lorisambol?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71379331-22c9-439f-8370-50899eb7f35a
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social 🇬🇾| she/her | poet | MFA UNCW | EARTHLY GODS (Variant Lit, 2024)
https://beacons.ai/jessicanirvanaram
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Karen Craigo @karenkay.bsky.social Poet, business journalist, family person, Unity type, cat lady
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Umang Kalra @umkalra.bsky.social poet + umkalra.substack.com
Jill Mceldowney @jillmceldowney.bsky.social poet-lawyer: poems are not legal advice. OTHERLIGHT YesYesBooks // editor Madhouse Press // tax lawyer // she / her // 🎠🐎
https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/otherlight
Erin Elizabeth Smith @sundresserin.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Person most likely to be stealing your magnolia flowers. 
heather hughes @birdmaddgirl.bsky.social 🐦⬛🐊🪩🌙 🐉
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Lisa Bickmore @megastore.bsky.social Poet & publisher (@lightscatterpress.bsky.social). Will talk about movies, books, poetry, music, & basketball without compunction. Lover of a jam doughnut, friend to dogs. she/her
Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social Writer in Delaware. Chapbook: POEMS TO STAGE DIVE TO (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: EVERY LIVING DAY (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️🌈
John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social Gay poet / gape owe it.
Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social Artist, poet, finder of lost things. Assistant editor at Rogue Agent.
Dr. Teo Shannon @teoshannon.bsky.social He/Him. Queer, disabled, HIV+, Latine Poet and Educator. Author of /a chronology of blood/ (U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Co-EIC @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
Prince Bush @princebush.bsky.social Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)
https://prince-bush.com
Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊
madeleine barnes @madeleinebarnes.bsky.social poet / PhD candidate / resident goth🖤 editor at large: Cordella Press. ✍🏼You Do Not Have to Be Good (Trio House Press); The Memory Dictionary (Ethel); Women’s Work (Tolsun Books); Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press)
E. Kristin Anderson @ekristinanderson.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Ferrix. Maker of nerd goodies Auntie. Author of 9 chapbooks of poetry. On staff @cottonxenomorph. she/her
shop: yourweirdauntshop.etsy.com
use code BSKY15 for 15% off select items!
Gemma @gemmasupernova.bsky.social Writing education towards justice. Writer, poet, playwright, literacies scholar (Syracuse PhD 2022), writing coach. We Might As Well Be Underwater (Unsolicited Press, 2017). Queer. Social media lurker mostly. She/her.
www.gemmacoopernovack.com
Melissa Eleftherion Carr @apoetlibrarian.bsky.social Poetry. Libraries. Adventures. Transformations.
Author of Suture, Malocchia, field guide to autobiography, gutter rainbows, 12 chapbooks, & more.
Busy mom. Poems all over.
Cat butler. Dog wrangler.
https://apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com/
she/they
Les Kay @leskay.bsky.social Poet, musician, writer, PhD, former academic, former instructional designer, former business analyst, caretaker of one dog and one cat, reluctant Midwesterner. 
Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social | kansas city | mostly poetry |
| utopians in love @gameoverbooks.bsky.social|
| co-host of @thelinebreak.bsky.social |
| editor @ garden party collective |
https://linktr.ee/bobsykora
Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
Neil Aitken @neilaitken.bsky.social Poet. Editor. Translator. Gamer. Programmer. Future librarian. Author of BABBAGE'S DREAM (Sundress Publications, 2017) and THE LOST COUNTRY OF SIGHT (Anhinga Press, 2008). Streams THE LONG DARK and reads poetry on Twitch as Babbaginator. bsky @babbaginator
E.B. Schnepp @ebschnepp.bsky.social Poet, cryptid currently residing in Chicago, featured in Poetry Daily, work in Iron Horse, Nat. Brute, South Dakota Review, and more.
ebschnepp@weebly.com
Chapbook: Blueberries Stain Like Blood
Available from Bottlecap Press Features
Bítchamel Sauce @roseannaalice.bsky.social doctor of poems | maker of soups | big fan of public libraries
they/she
Erin Adair-Hodges @erinadairhodges.bsky.social Poet, editor, educator. #505porvida
Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social [They/Him] I write about laughter, joy, and what foot-forward community embracing looks like. Love your love. Poems, bear scholar, and all around person who cares.
riantly.substack.com
Sam Herschel Wein @samforbreakfast.bsky.social Here 2 I guess 
Fox Henry Frazier @chansondemelusine.bsky.social My debut novel FRANCESCA comes out in autumn 2026!
Poetry collections: The Hydromantic Histories, Raven King, &c.
Creatrix/Editrix @agapeeditions.bsky.social
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
Kevin A. Risner @mrdecember.bsky.social It's Easy To Lose Your Breath (Match Factory Editions, 2026) & There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire (Unsolicited Press, 2027)
www.kevinarisner.com
https://matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Its-Easy-to-Lose-Your-Breath-p820224211
Megs 🤘🏻🖤 @megnev.bsky.social 📍Cleveland | she/her | Educator | Writer | Consultant | Department Chair | Xennial | Catmom 🐈⬛ | Plant nurturer 🪴 | The Fallow (Trio House Press 2022) | https://megannevillepoetry.wordpress.com
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social Writer and instructor living in FL.
🐈⬛ ✍️ 📚 🎮 🏳️🌈
http://josephdante.com
Hannah V Warren @hannahvwarren.bsky.social poet & translator / fulbright scholar / monster from MS / PhD & naturalist / slaughterhouse for old wives’ tales (2024) / kenyon review fellow ‘25-‘27
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social author of THE NAOMI LETTERS & THE GLAD HAND OF GOD POINTS BACKWARDS | assistant poetry and reviews editor, AGNI | poetry, also bread | she/her
Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
Amanda Auchter @alauchter.bsky.social Author of the books The Wishing Tomb & The Glass Crib. PEN Center USA Literary Award recipient. Work in CNN and Huffington Post. Book hoarder. Happy wife. Knitter. Cat friend. Aquarius. Avid smiler.
Anne Graue (she/her) @amgraue.bsky.social Poet, editor, reviewer, prose writer, human
Poetry Editor at The Westchester Review
Author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press)
Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social Author of Thaw (@ugapress National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD/Assistant Lecturer @ualberta Postdoctoral Fellow @SSHRC Poetry editor @sweetliterary
April Michelle Bratten @aprilmbratten.bsky.social editor of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. bi. she/her. 🌨
Rachel @rebunting.bsky.social Human. Writer. Artist. Cofounder/editor of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social
In pursuit of radical joy through contemplation of compassion.
🐦Easily distracted by birds🐦
We keep us safe.
Willie Lee Kinard III @williekinardiii.bsky.social Kinard, like cigar. Author of ORDERS OF SERVICE: A FUGUE (Alice James Books, 2023). Editor, Designer, Musician. Hoodoo. He/they. 803. 🔮🌱✍🏾✨🎶
Elsewhere: @williekinardiii
williekinardiii.com
Nicole Markert @nicolemarkert.bsky.social poet, educator, cozy gamer | work in Moon City Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others | nicolemarkert.com
Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet
• Author of PHANTOM TONGUE (Sundress Publications, 2018)
• Lambda Literary & CantoMundo Fellow
• poems in APR, Agni, Glass, Rhino, & elsewhere
https://stevensanchezpoetry.com
Robert Okaji @robertokaji.bsky.social Wordherd, poet, editor, cook and washer of dishes. Oh, yeah. I have metastatic lung cancer…
Carolee Bennett @carolee.bsky.social poet | artist | blogger | primarily WFPB
website ➡️ caroleebennett.com
poetry blog ➡️ https://gooduniversenextdoor.com/
Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently DUST. Pre-order THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT (2027) now @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social NEA winner, Philip K Dick Award https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
Caitlin Wolper Phillips @cwolper.bsky.social LA?! // sometimes I write about music & culture, sometimes I just copy edit // incredibly eager // famously auditioned for true grit & we bought a zoo — and yes I starred in both 
Veronica Kornberg @vkornberg.bsky.social Poet. Habitat gardener. Author of full-length collection, Strange Gift (Wandering Aengus Press 2026). Words in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, and more. Wishing you sweetness and light.
veronicakornberg.com
Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social Poet, novelist, essayist, translator.
Recent and forthcoming books: THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books, 2024), THE BOOK OF DISCOVERIES (Penguin India, 2024), THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books, 2025), THE BOOK OF KILLINGS (Penguin India, 2025).
Eliza Guerra @deercrossingthesea.bsky.social she/her
Poet of sentences, landscapes, clouds, water
https://linktr.ee/deercrossingthesea
Maria Martin @mariamartin.bsky.social Poems in Threepenny Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore.
http://www.mariasprogress.com
My name is Maria, but it is pronounced Mariah which was the first trick my parents played on me.
Adam Houle @houle.bsky.social Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC.
www.adamhoule.com
Profile pic: me with a cat shirt on
Banner: faint rainbow
Olivia 🦁 @oliviakaypoems.bsky.social Leo, lesbian, carer-about-things. Poet, writer, cat-mom, gamer, TTRPG lover. she/they. Poems in Rappahannock Review, Sage Ciggs, OAR, and beyond ✨⚡️🔥
William Fargason @williamfargason.bsky.social author of VELVET (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and LOVE SONG TO THE DEMON-POSSESSED PIGS OF GADARA (University of Iowa Press, 2020)
Lisa Fay Coutley @lfcoutley.bsky.social 
shay alexi @shayalexi.bsky.social writer. artist. 1000 lightning bugs in a trenchcoat.
📕Unbridled (Game Over Books)
🎓Masters in Communications candidate (Agnes Scott College)
@nepalipoet.bsky.social @nepalipoet.bsky.social 
Kelly Grace Thomas @kellygracethomas.bsky.social Poet, writer, and ocean-obsessed Aries from Jersey. Author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books).www.kellygracethomas.com
erin mizrahi @erinmizrahi.bsky.social writer | editor | adjunct | TO WHAT END: (Ethel Press), I’M DOING MY BEST TO MAKE EVERYTHING HOLY (Faint Line Press), IF WE BREAK WHERE WE BREAK HOW WE BREAK (Ghost City Press)
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House
linktr.ee/catwei
marie @mscarles.bsky.social writer, maker, movement worker • brooklyn, ny
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com