Jay Jennings @jayjenni.bsky.social Writer: CARRY THE ROCK / Editor: CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS / Screenwriter: A TREACHEROUS COUNTRY and DOG OF THE SOUTH jayjennings.net
Poetry Society of Texas @poetrysocietyoftexas.org The Poetry Society of Texas is a member of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc. and an affiliate of the Academy of American Poets. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social Books: Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts; Real Life: An Installation; 100 Notes on Violence; Someone Shot my Book. RAG. &others. Ac-job: Chair of WGST; teach poetry; CUB. juliecarrpoet.com; counterpathpress.org; aprilinstitute.org. 
Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social Official account for the Philip Larkin Society at PhilipLarkin.com, promoting the work of Philip Larkin.
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
Lynne Kemen @lynnekemen.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Interviewer, Bright Hill Press, The Blue Mountain Review, The Southern Collective Experience. Shoes for Lucy (SCE Press, 2023), More Than a Handful ( Woodland Arts Edition, 2021) Pushcart Prize nominee. NO DMs please.
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The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Nicole Robinson @nicolerobinson.bsky.social poet | narrative medicine practitioner | admirer of water & land and the living that lives there | author of Without a Field Guide (Unbound Edition Press) | nicolerobinsonpoetry.com | opinions are my own
Andres Rojas. @okaporia.bsky.social You know, poetry. EAT Poems, Paper Nautilus, Trio House Press. @ AGNI, Barrow St, Colorado R, Diode, Massachussets R , New England R, Poetry NW.
Rob Arnold @rsarnold.bsky.social CHamoru, adoptee, survivor. Poet & essayist. Executive Director of Poets House in NYC.
Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Dinah Lenney @dinahlenney.bsky.social Writer, teacher, actor, warbler, editor of #Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image forthcoming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social, lover of dogs, birds, photos, dinner on a sheetpan, jigsaw puzzles, and the emdash—
Colin Pope @colinpope.bsky.social Poet-ish. Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books). Why I Didn't Go to Your Funeral (Tolsun). Asst Dir of CW at Northwestern. Editor at RHINO. Believer in ironic punishments.
Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social Former publisher, bookseller, and hot dog street vendor in PDX. Prefer gray skies.
Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social Poet + Translator / New Book: THE END OF CHILDHOOD (Milkweed Editions, March 2025) / Editor of Copper Nickel / Co-director of the Unsung Masters Series / http://waynemillerpoet.com
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social Purveyor of Texas history and culture. Cowboy boots junkie and chronicler of all things Lone Star. 100% organic, free-range Texas content. A politics-free feed. DON'T get political! Buy me a coffee? Click here: https://buymeacoffee.com/tracesoftexas
Marcus Morris @marcusmorris.bsky.social Black Queer Liberation ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
“I cover the waterfront.”
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Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
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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/
@johnhoppenthaler.bsky.social @johnhoppenthaler.bsky.social 
Anthony Cody @anthonycody.bsky.social Poet: The Rendering & Borderland Apocrypha w/
Omnidawn | American Book Award, Whiting, Nat'l Book Award Finalist & other things | Co-publisher at Noemi | Faculty at Randolph Low Res MFA
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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social poet / professor @ JHU Writing Seminars / editor of The Hopkins Review / Baltimore, MD
Patricia Clark @patriciaclarkpoet.bsky.social Poet, retired professor, gardener, lover of dogs and mountains, former Washingtonian, Univ of Washington grad, also University of Montana (MFA), and Univ of Houston (Ph.D.). see books, most recent (new) O Lucky Day (Madville Publishing).
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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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social Editor of Verse Daily, Dog's Heart Press, consultant, foodie, dog dad
Ryan Vine @ryanvine.bsky.social poet | prof | deep north | books: The Cave (Best Poetry Books of 2025, California Review of Books), To Keep Him Hidden (Northeastern Minnesota Book Award), WARD & Distant Engines (Weldon Kees Award) | poems: APR, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, NPR ...
Robin Ekiss @robinekiss.bsky.social Poet with a penchant for penning advertising.📕Author of THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS.🧁connoisseur. Binge-watcher. Fog-gardener. Short. Shorter. Shortest. robinekiss.com
Carey Salerno @careysalerno.bsky.social Executive Director & Publisher of Alice James Books, Author of THE HUNGRIEST STARS (Persea Books, Oct. 2025), TRIBUTARY (2021), SHELTER (2009) & seasoned poster of what many might consider as a lot of mostly nothing. careysalerno.com
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Noah Stetzer @noahstetzer.bsky.social editor @BullCityPress | #SLC #PGH | he/him/his 🏳️🌈 👬🏻
TR Hummer @trhummer.bsky.social Poet & Ghost
Rebecca Morgan Frank @poetmorgan.bsky.social Author of 4 books, including Oh You Robot Saints!(Carnegie Mellon UP). Board member, National Book Critics Circle. Cofounder/Editor of Memorious.org (2004-2023.)
The Pi Review @thepireview.bsky.social An endless conversation on form. Poetry, prose and interviews. Curated by John Whittaker. https://thepireview.blogspot.com/
Dr Rachel Rankin @rakelrank.bsky.social Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
Ann Leahy @annleahy.bsky.social Here for poetry, wildflowers, biodiversity, and dogs. Poetry collection
@arlenhouse.bsky.social Also, sociological and socio-legal research, including on ageing and disability. Books @policypress.bsky.social and @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor.
www.gregoryspatz.com
www.thejaybirds.com
Traci Brimhall @tracibrimhall.bsky.social 🖌️writer 👩🏻🏫teacher 👾parent
Author of LOVE PRODIGAL ☀️ ♥️
Sandy Solomon @sandysolomon.bsky.social Writer/poet (Pitt poetry series) who follows politics (however grim), Early Modern English history. At home in Nashville (Vanderbilt) and London.
Fiona Sampson @fionasampson.bsky.social Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
Tiffany Atkinson @tiffanya.bsky.social Poet/critic/prof/plodder/etc latest collection Lumen (Bloodaxe 2021) 
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
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Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social 81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
Jo Shapcott @jo-shap.bsky.social 
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
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📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar |
Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social |
OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal |
Letterboxd, https://boxd.it/6L6X |
she/they
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Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.com
Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social Art historian
Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author
Sarah Kernochan @sarahkernochan.bsky.social Two-time Oscar winning filmmaker, screenwriter of 7 films, author of #reincarnation thriller Jane Was Here & #paranormal memoir blog http://sarahkernochan.blogspot.com. Currently collaborating on Broadway musical #NancyDrew. Website sarahkernochan.com
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Travis Nichols @travisjnichols.bsky.social Director of https://tinyurl.com/y2y3rkts
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Author of http://bit.ly/2x7mxCB & http://bit.ly/2CO2DSi
Formerly of CARE, Stand, Greenpeace, Poetry Foundation, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Seattle PI, Amherst Books, Flagpole, AHS Web
Ralph Burns @ralphmb74.bsky.social Poet. Last two books: BUT NOT YET (Lynx House Press), GHOST NOTES (Oberlin College Press).
Wadza M @wadzam.bsky.social Reader and Writer
Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Irish poet. Collections include Heat Signature & Cross-Talk (Seren). Co-ed Eavan Boland Inside History. Researches CW practice in post-conflict & social care. Awards in Templar, Troubadour, National etc.
@alisondeming.bsky.social @alisondeming.bsky.social Poet, essayist, teacher, bi-regionalist, friend of animals, gardener, mother, grandmother, science fan, University of Arizona Regents Professor Emerita.
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) ♥️ originally from Bham, AL // now in Seattle // cohost of the podcast The Poet Salon
Martín Espada @martinespadapoet.bsky.social The page of the National Book Award-winning poet, essayist, translator, editor, and activist.
Nick Dothée @nickdothee.bsky.social Writer, sober-gay-bulldog dad, and Bravo enthusiast in LA.
On May 27th 2016 I was hospitalized & detoxed from months of meth, booze and pills.
But my life was spared. Everyday since I’ve shared my gratitudes to keep me present, accountable, and sober.
Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social UW Communication professor | Scholar of rhetoric, the politics of aesthetics, and consumerism | Author of OURSPACE and THINGS WORTH KEEPING | Seattle | https://christineharold.com
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com Read an exclusive new #ekphrastic or ‘after’ poem each new and full moon.
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Willie James @wi11ie.bsky.social 
Erin Ferrell @erinferrell.bsky.social Artist and Writer
Michelle Ruiz Keil @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social Bruja, fabulist, talks to the animals
Author of All of Us With Wings & Summer In the City of Roses
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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social a nonprofit, independent publisher
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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social Poet. Private scholar. (HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD.) Forthcoming in UNSUNG MASTERS (Wesleyan). Journal of the Plague Years, New American Writing, Paris Review &c. Profile image from Ana Teresa Fernández
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
BlueSky Poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social A "respectful" space for poets to share work and connect with a vibrant community. All styles of poetry are celebrated. Use #BlueSkyPoetry and #SkyPoet to join a conversation, and tag us at @blueskypoetry.bsky.social for a chance to be featured.
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Carolyn Moore Writers House @cmwritershouse.bsky.social Portland Community College Writing Residency in a log home on nine acres of field & orchard, 15 minutes south of Portland, OR
First residency of its kind to be hosted by a community college.
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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry and fiction because art and literature make life better!
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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
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Adam Klein @adamklein.bsky.social Author of The Medicine Burns; (High Risk Books) Tiny Ladies (Serpent's Tail); Jerome: After the Pageant; and The Gifts of The State: New Writing from Afghanistan (Dzanc Books) Rep. PJ Mark
The Size Queens.
Suzanne Matson @suzannematson.bsky.social Poet and writer at suzannematson.com
Novels at W.W. Norton & Catapult
Poetry at Alice James Books
Prof at Boston College
PNW born and bred
CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Art and Literature by Women+ Since 1976
Open for general submissions! calyxpress.org
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Ann Hudson @annhudson.bsky.social Poet (Subtraction Isn’t Always Less; Glow; The Armillary Sphere). Senior Editor at Rhino Poetry. Teaching artist at Hive Center for the Book Arts. Citizen. Friend. Homebody. Cubs fan. Beginner bookbinder. I keep stabbing my fingers.
Rhonda Hughes @rhondaroni.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Hawthorne Books, an imprint of the Catapult Group, Avid knitter. Painter. Animal Lover.
Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com Author: CLINT; The Castle on Sunset; Paul Newman: A Life; Dolce Vita Confidential; &ct
Film guy/Soccer nut/Burner/Poet/Portlander/Board member @opipdx/Dad/Grandad/Grouch
NOT THE SHAWN LEVY WHO MAKES MOVIES AND SHOWS!!!
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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
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