Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social Covering RFK Jr., MAHA, health policy & politics for @nytimes. Former Congress & White House Correspondent (Bush & Obama). Peloton aficionado, amateur painter, dog lover, mom. Tips: stolberg@nytimes.com
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social An online journal of literature and the arts led by grad students at VCU. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, & more. Submissions are open!
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McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
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Solstice Literary Magazine @solsticelitmag.bsky.social Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. Graphic Literature. Translation. A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social Literary arts organization committed to fostering a vibrant literary culture. We envision a world where contemporary literature is celebrated and accessible to all, inspiring and connecting people across diverse backgrounds.
Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social Noemi Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher committed to publishing innovative writing. We have been a historically brown and queer press since our founding in 2002.
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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 ...
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social Coming out of our cage and we're doing just fine. All things about the essay. Advent Calendar. Find us at http://essaydaily.org
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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Arizona-based nonprofit print journal. We publish an eclectic stew of poetry and award prizes for each issue. Submissions reopen December 15. Ed. @domkeykong.bsky.social + @johnnycordova.bsky.social. shopoetryjournal.com
Aldo Amparán @skygoneout.bsky.social Author of BROTHER SLEEP (@AliceJamesBooks 2022) & THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (AJB, 2026) | NEA & CantoMundo Fellow | they/them
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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Taller than your dad
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Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
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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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social Let's get small. -ette loves fiction and prose poetry under 1000 words.
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Best Small Fictions
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
Douglas Arthur @douglasarthur.bsky.social Writer
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*often reposting what I want to remind myself to read + haiku, senryu, etc.
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
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
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Jade Wong-Baxter @jwongbaxter.bsky.social literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency // she/her 
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social Writer of books & things | Contributing Editor @ Orion Magazine | Curator & Founder @ Houston Flood Museum | Professor & MFA Director @ Rice U | Guggenheim Fellow 2020 | Community storyteller @ Houston, Texas, Baby.
Breezy (they/them) @abitchislive.bsky.social Sometimes Brionne Janae sometimes Breezy always the drama 😘
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Austin Allen @aawriting.bsky.social Writer.
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social Political consultant, media critic, and longtime Cassandra.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
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Novel: Living in Cemeteries
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Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Senator Analise Ortiz @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social AZ State Senator of District 24, Maryvale and Glendale | Ranking Democrat, Judiciary and Elections Committee
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Zach Kahn @zkahn.bsky.social 19 year old writer from NC. Friend of The Mailbag. I like 70s music too. Incoming freshman at Northwestern University.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Brotherful & Listen, Kid: Selected & New Poems 2010-2026 / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay & Queer Poetry
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com State Editor at cityandstateny.bsky.social. Previously @nysfocus.bsky.social, @freedom.press and @politico.com. He/him.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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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
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social San Francisco based LGBTQ+ journal and press—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives. 🌈 🌉
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Anthony Borruso @introspectiveant.bsky.social Composition Professor and Author of the poetry collection Splice
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
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DAVID M. KATZ @davidmkatzpoet.bsky.social David M.Katz is the author of five books of poetry—The Biographer, In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz, and Claims of Home, all published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys). Poems in Poetry, New Republic, Paris Review.
Richard Blanco @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social 5th Presidential Inaugural Poet for President Barack Obama | Memoirist, Speaker, Professor
📚Recent: HOMELAND OF MY BODY (@beaconpress, 2023)
Jane Satterfield @poetjs.bsky.social 
Julie Kane @juliekanepoet.bsky.social National Poetry Series winner, Fulbright Scholar, Louisiana Poet Laureate, Best American Poet. Just out is Naked Ladies: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2025).
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell @angelaodonnellpoet.bsky.social Poet, professor, reader, writer, wife, mother, sister, sinner, failed saint
April Lindner @misadventure123.bsky.social Poetry & prose. Also: travel, live music, rescue dogs, backyard chickens & all things Italy. Grateful citizen of Springsteenistan.
Kate Bernadette Benedict @kate-bb.bsky.social Poet. Editor. Slacker.
Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social The Biggest Little Press in LA 🌞
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
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Poetry by the Sea Conference @poetrybythesea.bsky.social Welcoming poets to Madison, CT, every May since 2015!
James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
The New Verse News (always open for newspoems) @newversenews.bsky.social Politically progressive poetry on current events every day since 2005. #7 limag for “Exceptional Reading” in ChillSubs poll.
https://newversenews.blogspot.com
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Ed: @JamesPenha.bsky.social
@paradiselost79.bsky.social @paradiselost79.bsky.social 
Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social Reporter @ NYT covering federal courts.
Three-season outdoor enthusiast.
Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov U.S. Senator for California. Devoted husband and proud dad. Dodgers diehard. EngiNERD. 
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Kelly Schoenegge @kellyschoenegge.bsky.social Editor @broadripplereview.bsky.social
Former Fiction Editor at Booth and Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow
BJJ 🤎 + Co-Host @lezrollradio.bsky.social
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John Tessitore @jtessitore.bsky.social Writer, poet, liberal arts advocate
Podcast: Be True
Co-Editor Across the Pond for
The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press
www.johntessitore.com
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Kris Bigalk @krisbigalk.bsky.social Executive Editor, @TrioHousePress.bsky.social; Board member, AWP. Lover of literary poetry and prose. Opinions are my own.
Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social Poemsong person! Librarian! Singing C2s in NYC
DEAR DEAR from @triohousepress.org in July 2026. Preorder: https://shorturl.at/KGJ2e
Chap FEEDBACK HARMONIES out from Seven Kitchens Press
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.