xavier @myblackknows.bsky.social assistant professor of english at uc davis ; philologist, critical theorist; all typos here are mine and not my employer's
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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social 🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor |
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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.
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/midnucas
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i wrote some books (you know, for those of yall that care for that sorta thing)
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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social Author, The Trump Contagion; Words on Fire; The Agony of Decision; The Power of Communication; Co-author of Influencing Leaders; Reputation Management. President, Logos Consulting. Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern Exec MBA and MS in PR; Columbia Engineering. 🫘
Philip Loring @philiploring.com Anthropologist and storyteller. Global Director of human dimensions science @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). he/they 🏳️🌈
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
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Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
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Matthew King @matthewkingauthor.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
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Keith White @keithwhite832.bsky.social HTX Age 44, a huge sports fan, political nerd, Anti Trump, Anti Racist, pro freedom, pro women's rights and pro porn at times. #BLM #BIPOC African American, Native American and Afro Latino. x.com/keithwhite346
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Malaika R. Simmons @malaikarsimmons.bsky.social Writer ✍🏾+ Attorney ⚖️ + 🎨 Creator of The Writer’s Block Party™ (https://substack.com/@malaikarsimmons)
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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social Reclusive Swamp Druid. Associate professor, Nicholls State: World Lit, Wilderness, and other "Waste" lands. Senior field & Wilderness Medicine instructor at NOLS. Wilderness EMT. Oud, bees. Fulbright Jordan 2015-17.
South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone
Cera Smith @inavisceralvein.bsky.social 🔸BLACK / BIOLOGICAL / BODY🔸
Assistant Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon
They/She
David W. Hardy, Esq. @hardymediation.bsky.social Atty, mediator, teacher. Lawrence, KS Advocate, MBA, former uni admin. Spouse:🧑🤝🧑@bsbadger INTJ/ENTJ 🚫DMs 🚫 Porn 🚫 Crypto 🚫 OnlyFans 🚫GoFundMe YES to int. news, sci, law, art, philos, Left pol, philanth, nature
Ashwini Bhasi @ashwinibhasi.bsky.social Poet,Visual Artist, Bioinformatician 🧬
മലയാളി 🌺
MUSTH: Winner of the CutBank Chapbook Contest
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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
heidiseabornpoet.com
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
At Length @atlengthmag.bsky.social Online venue for long work in poetry, prose, translation and, well, everything else. Co-Editors in Chief: Derek Mong & Anne Fisher. Managing Editor: Carson Wirtz. Web Guru: Grayson Adams. Terrestrial home: West Lafayette, Indiana. www.atlengthmag.com
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social www.ANMLY.org/
www.medium.com/anomalyblog
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Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
Header by Ṭaüs Jafar.
yoon soo @yoonsoo.bsky.social maker, thinker, writer, teacher
Mya / Matteo Alexice @myamatteoalexice.bsky.social he/they
Cave Canem fellow, instructor, cat father, person who won't be on here very much. work in swamp pink, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, etc.
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@laurasmidz.bsky.social @laurasmidz.bsky.social - E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
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 🌞
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Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social Recent US Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
@alaaella.bsky.social @alaaella.bsky.social Iam Alaa
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
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@c9martin.bsky.social @c9martin.bsky.social 
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion @dandeliontalks.bsky.social Visionary Poet ☼ Facilitator ☼ Healing Arts Practitioner
☼ Author of remembering (y)our light ☼ 2024 Lambda Award Winner ☼ Fellowships from: Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, & Baldwin for the Arts
riverdandelion.com ☼ dandeliontalks.substack.com
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Transoceanic Blackface: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
“Blackface Geographies”: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325101172
Ryan Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
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https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
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gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social Expert plate spinner. Changing the world one pixel at a time. Also dogs+food+fam+bad culture. she/her
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@011883.bsky.social @011883.bsky.social I am an independent author of fiction. I am from Pennsylvania. You can find my books on Amazon under the author name of J.R. Caldwell
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Paul K. Smith @paulksmith.bsky.social #Financier of US Startups; & JVs in Asia #Physicist #Author: Strategy. #Playwright: 21 Recent NY Shows (Sarah's Rapture, Pablo's Kisses, Women of Paris, Badass Women, City Suite, Day of Promise, Ritual Cleansing, Rebooting Life, Break-Up, Twilight of Joy..
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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social www.FindingCeremony.com
My gender is "nope": http://medium.com/p/c6a1c0f8176d
PhD Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archeology; MA Public Humanities, American Studies
MA University of Michigan IPCAA
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Jeni Grayce 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🦄 @jenigrayce.bsky.social I am an independently published artist, author and music producer. I am transgender/poly. Jimi/Jeni
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Spreading love and positivity all day, every day!
Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow