Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social 4 chapbooks. Editor of When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton. Co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Founder/curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series. Founder/editor of Limp Wrist.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social Holding poets to the light • A passion project by @andhow.bsky.social • est 2005 • https://readalittlepoetry.com/ • https://ko-fi.com/readalittlepoem • Poet's Field Notes (tdelosreyes.substack.com)
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Luke Hunt @luke-hunt.bsky.social Reporter at Large | Author | Photographer | Video | Professor Emeritus
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
faithestella.bsky.social @faithestella.bsky.social nyc poet • jerome lowell dejur award recipient • best of the net nominee • linktr.ee/faithestella
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Nate @nateduty.bsky.social Old white guy. Retired Calif Deputy Sheriff, vet, Fort Bliss, TX, 1962-1965, Spec 5. HQ Combat Support Group. Don't care for liars, thieves, or bigots like Trump. Car nut, old drag racer. 🚫 No hot ladies (too old). Christians OK 🚫 Phony Christians 🚫 Chats
Alyna Lim @alynalim.bsky.social University of Michigan '24 | Depression & Stress Mechanisms, Mental Health Disparities in Youths | 🇲🇾 Nascent Poet
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
@daramech.bsky.social @daramech.bsky.social 
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
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dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner/veg grower, advocate for nature & the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile. Social & environmental justice NOW. Daily photo from Scotland.NOT a naturist!
https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social Welsh writer and Poet posting verse, and other writing. #WritingCommunity
Host of #WildWalkPrompt, #SomethingEveryday
and part of the #PoetsOfDoom crew!
https://linktr.ee/quillofmnemosyne
HM @helenmarianne.bsky.social poems
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social #poet --Poet, retired academic writing coach, gardener, 🌱 blogger.
Three books of poetry, 6 chapbooks: www.annemichael.blog
Not ambitious. Curious about the world. Working on being more of a mensch.
Concernedscienceteach @21sciencerules.bsky.social Mom, science teacher, sad democrat
Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems.
https://davebonta.com
Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine.
Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
KalpitaPathak @kalpitapathak.bsky.social #Writer.
Seeker of magic in the mundane.
Queer, disabled, autistic & brown (she/him).
I love the smell of rain in the desert 🌵⛈️🏜️🌈
linktr.ee/kalpitapathak
EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Humor. Books. Atheist. Dog rescuer. Advocate.
Fan of critical thinking. I write about politics and religion.
California Racial Justice Act @californiarja.bsky.social This account is dedicated to advancing awareness, understanding, and application of the California Racial Justice Act by tracking how courts across the state interpret and apply this transformative law.
Stay Updated: https://californiarja.wordpress.com/
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Sandy Nietling @sandynietling.bsky.social Winner, First Pages Prize for fiction. First Runner Up, James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Shortlist, Santa Fe Writers Project. Pushcart Prize nominee.
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇦
Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
salamandermag.org
unhinged melody @jrvrhlms.bsky.social Author of MACHINES LIKE US (Dzanc). MFA from Univ of Alabama. Poetry forthcoming in Foglifter & The Glacier.
https://linktr.ee/jriverhelms
📍Houston, TX
Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social Teacher, poet, political scientist. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, and inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice
they/chị/anh/chanh
donguyenmai.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.🇨🇦
agoldenhour.com
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Joe Bun Keo @joebunkeo.bsky.social http://joebunkeo.com/
World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social One of the world’s longest-published literary magazines, now in its 100th year. Your passport to great reading. Online at https://worldliteraturetoday.org/.
wildly uncomfortable @joeymaree.bsky.social Poet, Writer
Disturbing audiences since 1969
@wildly.uncomfortable
www.wildlyuncomfortable.com
Empress of Cheer @inarafei.com enchanting everyday moments 🪷
🇰🇭🇨🇳🇻🇳 | 🇺🇸
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Mo Golden @mogolden.bsky.social Fine art and hot takes related to belonging and otherness: Mogolden.com
Functional art and interactive design for for intention and ritual in your home: StudioGolden.shop
Co-owner and ttrpg busy body at HeartoftheDeernicorn.com
Based in Olympia, Wa.
Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
National Association for Poetry Therapy @poetry-therapy.bsky.social Promoting growth & healing through language, symbol, and story. #poetry #expressivearts
Learn more about us at https://poetrytherapy.org/
We also publish the Journal of Poetry Therapy quarterly —> https://poetrytherapy.org/Journal-of-Poetry-Therapy
Rei Magosaki @rmagosaki.bsky.social 孫崎玲 Associate Prof of English, Chapman U. |
Orange, CA | reimagosaki.info | 2026-2027 Society for the Humanities at Cornell U.
@ungarbl.bsky.social @ungarbl.bsky.social 
John Hardy @johnfrom25k.bsky.social Erudite, sorta. Left-wing New Englander (CT). Disdain for Vichy Democrats, Orange Satans and their lemmings. Congenital NY Mets fan (can't help it). Celtic Spirituality/Pantheist. GLP-1 pilgrimage. Wish I was a headlight on a north bound train.
💚Charlotte Donlon @charlottedonlon.bsky.social > MFA in Creative Writing + Spiritual Director
> Books: The Great Belonging (‘20) & Spiritual Direction for Writers (‘26)
> Starter Packs:
Belonging Through Art: https://go.bsky.app/L4GyyG1
Poets + Poems: go.bsky.app/U5FDhAq
> https://charlottedonlon.com
Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Jen Julian @jennicjul.bsky.social Writer + artist + cat person, The Winter Folk (Orbit 2026), Red Rabbit Ghost (Orbit 2025), Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses (Press 53 2018), Clarion 2016, creative writing prof @ Young Harris College
https://jenjulian.com | Insta: @jenjulianwriter
Leslie Hoffman @lesliehoffman7.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Copy Editor
Sexual Assault Crisis Advocate
Another Mother for Peace (AMP 1969)
National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC 1992)
Lisa Nikolidakis @lisanik.bsky.social Writer, professor, naturalist, disruptor, advocate, she/they, ♿️🏳️🌈🧿🖤🆓 🇵🇸
Author NO ONE CROSSES THE WOLF: a memoir (2022, Little A)
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
JB Kalf @enchilada89.bsky.social previously @enchilada89 on twitter, looking forward to the new frontier
Greg Santos @gspoet.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Educator | Ghost Face 2020 & more | Editor in Chief of carte blanche | Adoptee 🇰🇭🇵🇹🇪🇸🇨🇦 | Lives with GAD/asthma/prediabetes| He/Him | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
C. R. Resetarits @crresetarits.bsky.social quiet but for the sound of scissors
https://crresetarits.wordpress.com/
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Rebecca Walker @orangebird.northsky.social Joy is resistance. She/her
Joe Cottonwood @joecot.bsky.social Unlicensed poet. Licensed Mr. Fixit. Dog person. Redwood lover. Hot tub soaker.
Best of Phnom Penh @bestofphnompenh.bsky.social City guide of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
www.bestofpp.com
Randy Kim @banhmichronicles.bsky.social Queer Viet-Khmer American wreaking havoc in the Chicagoland area and beyond. Host of The Banh Mi Chronicles. I am a Substacker which you can subscribe to Banh Mi Bites (it’s not about the sandwich you love). Traveler, concert connoisseur, etc
Ren Powell @ren-powell.bsky.social MAD ORPHAN LIT
#Poet | #Playwright |Teaching Artist 🍊 Poetry Editor, Orange Blossom Review. #Substacker @ dramaticroots.com
Lapsed academic. Meditative trail runner (ie slow).
renpowell.com #5amwritersclub
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
Diode @diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode Editions and Diode Poetry Journal
Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our authors.
Brian J. Peterson @brianjapeterson.bsky.social Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Author: Thomas Sankara https://iupress.org/9780253053763/thomas-sankara/ Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
CNM @carleynmiller.bsky.social writing & reading & witchcraft
RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC
Dan Wilcox @dwlcx.bsky.social Poet & Peace Activist
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
Mahmud Rahman @mahmudwriter.bsky.social Writer. Translator. Short stories: Killing The Water, 2010, Penguin India. Translation: Black Ice, 2012, HarperCollins India. Nomad - Dhaka, Calcutta, Tulsa, Boston, Detroit, Providence, Bay Area, LA, Toyota, Philadelphia. 2025 NEA Translation Fellow.
Anya Kirshbaum @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social Pacific Northwest poet, queer mama, somatic therapist, beekeeper, and lover of wild and tended gardens.
https://anyakirshbaumpoet.com
Richard Jordan @rich-jordan.bsky.social Poet, mathematician. Poems published or forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Rattle (Rattle Prize Finalist), Gargoyle, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, New York Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sho Poetry Journal. Assoc. Editor @ Thimble Lit.
charlie hensler @chaswriter.bsky.social
"Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you"
- John Ashbery
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
IG: @chapp010
Paul Ilechko @pilechko.bsky.social Poet, cyclist. Occasional songwriter. Author of 'Fragmentation and Volta' (Gnashing Teeth Press, Feb 2025) and 'Post Moby' (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2026). Reader for Marrow Magazine. 
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Jonathan T. Bailey @baileyimages.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Queer / neurodivergent poet & conservation photographer. Winner of Reading the West and Foreword Indies awards. Find me in the NYT, HCN, & others.
Preorder my new book 🌞
https://www.baileyimages.com/Book
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social Poetry & prose from the road! HCR is a quiet, tucked-away lit journal where any poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their feet and share their work over a crackling fire. Since 2009!
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social American-Australian poet; Pushcart and Best of Net nominee; Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, San Antonio Review, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle Society, Wombwell Rainbow… #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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Sam Sheehan 🛸 @samcsheehan.bsky.social Boston, Massachusetts📍
Follow my only other account ⬇️ @isheehans.bsky.social
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Owner of High Street Kitchens 🍔
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Dove Wilson @braincoach333.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, brain nerd, author of award-winning “Brain Dance.” Love art, beauty, music, brain science, and helping people get great sleep. CBT-Insomnia Leadership ADHD Coach Diane Grimard Wilson licensedmentalhealth Illinois Florida Medsky