March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament features Xmas, holiday, and seasonal songs and runs in December 2026.
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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Tricia Bogle @boglepoetry.bsky.social Tricia (Trish) Bogle, Ph.D. (she/hers) is a Missouri-born poet & bioethicist who lives in NYC with 2 cats and a windowsill full of plants.
The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social A biannual literary journal produced by MFA students at the University of Memphisโ pinchjournal.com
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
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Gregg Winsor @kcbookpusher.bsky.social Librarian. Husband. Dad. Cat owner. Always excited to hear people talk about their favorite books. Fan of assorted nerdery. Kansas City forever.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant- B Brenna @brennendebrenn.bsky.social ๐๐ช๐ป๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ค๐๐ข๐ฆ
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Memory Flashes @camy40.bsky.social I write poetry, memoir, micro-essays & flash--drawn from my life, imagination, prompts & pics. Memory Flashes is a place to practice my craft.
Reid McCollum @reidmcc.bsky.social Outreach Director at Progressive Turnout Project
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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social Novelist & poet. THE BEHEADING GAME pubs 3/24 US (Crown Publishing) 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). Opinions my own.
AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social Our avatar is the Vedic god of fire, our goal is literary combustion. A beacon for 50 years, shining brightly in print and online. bu.edu/agni
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
@jypinkc.bsky.social @jypinkc.bsky.social 
Traci Brimhall @tracibrimhall.bsky.social ๐๏ธwriter ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซteacher ๐พparent
Author of LOVE PRODIGAL โ๏ธ โฅ๏ธ
Patti Digh @pattidigh.bsky.social Writer/teacher interested in social justice, autism, LGBTQIA+ rights, veganism, and weaving dystopian potholders. I love lavender and good questions. Author of 8 books. She/her
Hannah Craig @hrcraig.bsky.social writer โข printmaker โข Pittsburgh โข she/her โข latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review โข 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
Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social Poet in Residence at Frame's Pest Control. Toriphile. X-Men fanatic. Editor/Publisher glasspoetry.bsky.social . Book: Main Street Rag. Chapbook: Sibling Rivalry Press.
http://www.glass-poetry.com/anthonyframe.html
Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social Poet โข Writer โข IBCLC โข Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024), a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year โข www.wendywisner.com
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
sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social native (nanticoke) genderfuck crip neurodiva. autistic. trans. etc. editor type.
http://linktr.ee/sarah_clark
read stuff i edit (please):
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www.ALOCASIA.org
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social).
CEASEFIRE NOW FREE PALESTINE. ๐ ๐๐ง
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
Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social Poet. Feminist. Dog mom. Books: Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press). she/her
www.courtneyleblanc.com
Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social Deaf. Cherokee. Writer.
My book โEverything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghostโ 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 โข MTG articles @ EDHREC โข Events guy for @gamershaunt.bsky.social โข Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
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/ูู
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 โข poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia โข wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra โข opinions mine, including that nobodyโs free until everybodyโs free
summer farah @summ.bsky.social author of I COULD DIE TODAY & LIVE AGAIN (Game Over Books) + THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications) ๐| ๐ต๐ธ 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.
Heidi Czerwiec @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social Essayist and poet, author of CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY: STRIKE A CHORD and FLUID STATES. Sr. Editor at Assay. Perfumista and forager. She/her
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) | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฑ๐ง๐ธ๐พ | ๐ต๐ธ
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet ๐
free ๐ต๐ธ
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 (ๅๅฟ้ ด) @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/
Kenning JP Garcรญa @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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฌ๐ป
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.
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
๐: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social ๐ poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers ๐
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social Forthcoming: ๐ต๐๐ข๐ก๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐n, 2023 Barrow Street Editors Prize โข ๐จ๐ท ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ruth Awad @ruthawad.bsky.social Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) and Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024). 2021 NEA fellow. Poet, abolitionist, bi, Pom mom, she/her
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 // ๐ ๐
https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/otherlight
Sarah Carey @saycarey1.bsky.social Comms director emerita, UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Poet. NC born, Florida grown. Debut full-length: The Grief Committee Minutes, Hoffer Award finalist (Saint Julian Press, '24.) New! Bloodstream, Mercer University Press (2/3/'26). SarahKCarey.com
heather hughes @birdmaddgirl.bsky.social ๐ฆโโฌ๐๐ชฉ๐ ๐
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon ๐ Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation๐ฉธ(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. ๐บ๐ธ/๐จ๐ญin ๐จ๐ญ
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.๐ณ๏ธโ๐Bi/Queer
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. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social Gay poet / gape owe it.
Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social Author of Dear Diaspora (Prairie Schooner Book Prize, 2021)
Editor of Haydenโs Ferry Review
www.susanpoet.com
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 Writersโ Workshop โญ๏ธ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC โค๏ธ (on hiatus ๐ด)
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 ๐
Lauren Bender @laurensurely.bsky.social soon I'll have that little mermaid & the ocean will be mine โ http://benderpoet.tumblr.com/writing
madeleine barnes @madeleinebarnes.bsky.social poet / PhD candidate / resident goth๐ค editor at large: Cordella Press. โ๐ผYou Do Not Have to Be Good (Trio House Press); The Memory Dictionary (Ethel); Womenโs Work (Tolsun Books); Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press)
Kai Coggin (she/her) ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @kaicoggin.bsky.social Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Teaching Artist, Master Naturalist, Gay Mama Bear, Host of Wednesday Night Poetry. Editor at SWWIM, TERRAIN.ORG, and RISE UP REVIEW. www.kaicoggin.com
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
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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
Marc Alan Di Martino @marcadimartino.bsky.social Poet & translator. Support ๐บ๐ฆ Pro-democracy. Atheist. South Canadian. Reader at @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Translation: https://worldpoetrybooks.com/books/day-lasts-forever | Web: marcalandimartino.com
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
Bรญtchamel Sauce @roseannaalice.bsky.social doctor of poems | maker of soups | big fan of public libraries
they/she
Laura McCullough @lauramcct.bsky.social Poetry, flash memoir, fiction. MFA in fiction, Goddard College. Candidate for doctorate in Medical Humanities, Drew University (narrative healing, intergenerational epigenetic trauma, power of story). Author of several books of poetry. Also bonsai & bread
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
Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU (AJB, 2027) | Alice James Award for IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY | commissions @ Paramount, 9/11 Memorial, Holocaust Memorial