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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social - i make games about women trying their best
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- she & they
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Casey Patrick @caseypartytrick.bsky.social Probably pointing at the moon. (Once a poet, always a poet.)
Jennifer Givhan @jenngivhan.bsky.social Chicana + Indigenous author of THE SLEEPING SISTERS & SALT BONES (Little, Brown). Monstrous mamawriter of folk horror on the borderlands. Hexer of the patriarchy. Haunted woman.
She/Her/La Bruja
jennifergivhan.com
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Jessica Goodfellow @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social poet | author of Whiteout (Univ Alaska Press) | creative writing instructor in Japan | new to Bluesky and looking for the poets | www.jessicagoodfellow.com
Heather Emerson @heatheremerson.bsky.social poet, artist, liberal, vegan, activist, atheist, ally, wife, mother, grandmother, author of “Water Unto Light” (Finishing Line Press)
Jenny Gropp @jgroppppp.bsky.social Executive Director @WoodlandPattern.bsky.social / Poet / Editor / Views my own 🐚 🌊🌈🥾 https://linktr.ee/WoodlandPattern
Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social Fostering excellence, amplifying diverse voices, and building a vibrant literary community. litcleveland.org
Xander Gershberg @xandergershberg.bsky.social Poet Editor Educator in Minneapolis. Editor at Spout Press. Poems in Fence, The Journal, TAB Journal, Poetry Online, Great River Review, others.
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.
Karen Scott @karenescott.bsky.social Not the designer! Poet living in Columbus/ mother/ compulsive reader and bookdragon/ science, language and history nerd
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Making community and craft accessible to all, in Brooklyn & beyond. https://brooklynpoets.org/
@lindsaytigue.bsky.social @lindsaytigue.bsky.social 
Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social Writing, labor organizing, politics, poetry. "Variations of Labor." You can find my creative writing at www.alexgallobrown.com. The labor organizing exists in various places, beyond me, in the world. 
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) aimeenez.net
Ava Winter @avanwinter.bsky.social Author of TRANSGENESIS, winner of the National Poetry Series, published by Milkweed Editions. Anti-Zionist Jew. She/they.- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
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
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Hannah Nahar @hannahnahar.bsky.social poet & writer & elsewhere
poems in West Branch, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, & other places
hannahnahar.com/writing
Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social Co-Managing Editor @actionbooks.bsky.social | Author of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social, 2025); FALL GARMENT (Schism, 2022); THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES (Schism, 2020)
Zach Powers @zachpowers.bsky.social Author: THE MIGRAINE DIARIES (2026), FIRST COSMIC VELOCITY & GRAVITY CHANGES. Book on writing fiction, CHOMP (2028). Exec & Artistic Director at The Writer’s Center & Poet Lore. zachpowers.com
Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof
Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020)
www.sarahceniaminor.com
Jessica Guzman @jessbguz.bsky.social Poet and prof. Author of Adelante 🍊🍊 (Switchback Books, 2020).📍Philadelphia.
jgapoet.com
Semiotexte @semiotexte.bsky.social Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.com
Dan Coffey @itscoffeyagain.bsky.social Librarian | Human & dog dad | Left-field music enthusiast & Criterion Channel junkie | Author of Van der Graaf Generator: On Track | Weak on crime
Route recalculating.
Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com Senior Editor, Audience - @theatlantic.com, things of that nature
Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social Senior writer at Wired, author of ONE BAD MOTHER, debut essay collection out now. https://www.amazon.com/One-Bad-Mother-Housewives-Momfluencers/dp/1668051117
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing)—@ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her.
Words here = mine alone.
Van Khanna @vankhanna.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Chocolate lover. Books: Burning Like Her Own Planet (2023), Train to Agra, Afternoon Masala, and The Goddess Monologues (vankhanna.com)
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
Mary Peelen @ohmary.bsky.social Poet, author of QUANTUM HERESIES. Writing in Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, MQR, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily, Poetry Review (UK) Website: marypeelen.com
Jane Yeh @janeyeh3.bsky.social Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
Jacques J. Rancourt @jjrancourt.bsky.social New book BROCKEN SPECTRE out now from Alice James Books | he/him | 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
www.jacquesrancourt.com
Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social (she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social Poet / Polski kurczak w amerykańskim stylu. / Chicago.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social The largest daily poem anthology... 22 years of poems in our archives! You know you need a little more poetry in your life.
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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Su Cho @sucho.bsky.social Poet, sometimes essays, author of THE SYMMETRY OF FISH (Penguin 2022)
Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social 
Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
Katy Lederer @ledererledes.bsky.social Following, following...
Robert Wood Lynn @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social poet sometimes. collection Mothman Apologia (2022 Yale University Press) and chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact (2023 Button Poetry). Kate Tufts/Yale Younger/NEA fellow
Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social 🍉 Neutron Muppet 🍉
|| poemmaker | fieldtheorist | professora | creative coach | stage queen | hypewoman | magicwand | humancat ||
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samiyabashir.com
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social She/Her. Writer in Rochester, NY.
Coeditor of Gone Lawn.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
Callista Buchen @callistabuchen.bsky.social poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social tboy poet from the philippines 🐛 debut chapbook forthcoming from gacha press 🌱 anmly poetry reader 🐎 sundress editorial intern 📚 ateneo press review crew 🗡️
Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
Meredith Ackroyd @meredithackroyd.bsky.social Poet, Artist, Mother. I write poems for adults and children, primarily in the field of contemporary English-language haiku and related forms, and have an MFA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University. she/her
meredithackroyd.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/
Daisy Fried @daisyfried.bsky.social Poet, critic, learning a few things. Four books:
The Year the City Emptied
Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
She Didn't Mean to Do It
Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
Molly Fisk @mollyfisk.bsky.social Poet, life coach, radio commentary, lake swimming
Acad. of Amer. Poets Laureate Fellow, NEA, MBA, waitress in Norway.
The More Difficult Beauty, Listening to Winter, Walking Wheel
https://tinyurl.com/WalkingWheelPreOrder
Catherine Pierce @catherinepierce.bsky.social Poems & essays * Former Poet Laureate of Mississippi, now Dweller of Delaware * Four books, most recently DANGER DAYS (Saturnalia 2020) * Can be found looking at trees * catherinepiercepoet.com * studioandcraft.com
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
bethbachmann.bsky.social @bethbachmann.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Author of Temper, Do Not Rise, CEASE.
www.bethbachmann.com
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
linktr.ee/alpb
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com 
Nomi Stone @nomistone.bsky.social Poet. Anthropologist. Author of 3 books, 2 of them about war and empire. Wife to a farmer wife. Mama to a peach. I cry a lot.
Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (UC Press 2022)
Kill Class (Tupelo Press 2019)
Tommye Blount @tommyeblount.bsky.social Detroiter who is the author of the poetry collections FANTASIA FOR THE MAN IN BLUE (Four Way Books) and WHAT ARE WE NOT FOR.
@fakedavelucas.bsky.social @fakedavelucas.bsky.social 
Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow // 2024 Seventh Wave Resident // words in Epiphany, 45th Parallel, Northridge Review & elsewhere
🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸
https://bristokes.substack.com/
Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social 🌈 NAACP Image Award nominated debut, “Song of My Softening” OUT NOW 🌱 PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg
"Worth the wait." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post 👇🏾
https://linktr.ee/omotarajames/?fbclid=PAAaY1S3Las3Dwvt9XE5-EtE
Julia Bouwsma @juliabouwsma.bsky.social Poet + Farmer + Librarian + Editor + Teacher + Maine Poet Laureate
DEATH FLUORESCENCE (Sundress Publications, forthcoming June 2025), MIDDEN (Fordham University Press, 2018), WORK BY BLOODLIGHT (Cider Press Review, 2017)
heathenderr.bsky.social @heathenderr.bsky.social Poet, 5 books, most recently Thrust (Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, Persea Books, 2018) and Outskirts(University of Akron Press, 2022).
Alana F. @alanaf.bsky.social 
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
josé olivarez @joseolivarez.bsky.social writer
Hieu Minh Nguyen @hieuminh.bsky.social Writer
Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social Poet 🥸
National Poetry Series
GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions ‘23) & a Poetry Society of America Chapbook: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC
she/her
https://www.margaretbray.com/
https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
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
Kate Messner @katemessner.com NYT bestselling author of 80+ books for kids. Educator. Speaker. Adirondack 46er. Passionately curious. Coming soon: KEEP THE GHOST LIGHT ON
www.katemessner.com
Rajani LaRocca @rajanilarocca.bsky.social 2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
www.RajaniLaRocca.com
Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
Margarita Engle @margaritaengle.bsky.social Cuban American poet and children’s book author. Young People’s Poet Laureate Emeritus. Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Awards, etc.
Laura Ruby @thatlauraruby.bsky.social Novelist, poet, teacher, unrepentant cat-lover, cancer patient, two-time National Book Award Finalist. Bone Gap, Thirteen Doorways, etc. Made of bees. @thatlauraruby on most socials. www.lauraruby.com