Chicago Quarterly Review @chicagoqreview.bsky.social Independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize
River Heron Review @riverheronreview.bsky.social Online poetry journal & community of poets publishing well-crafted poems that speak to readers who expect excellence & variety. Connect with Zoom readings, workshops, monthly newsletters. www.riverheronreview.com Links: https://linktr.ee/riverheronreview
Odd Pocket Press @oddpocketpress.bsky.social The goal of Odd Pocket Press is to reinvent the way we publish poetry!
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for our daily poem newsletter --> bit.ly/3AWdEMl
Produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. AWP attendees are welcome too, of course. NAWP is for everyone. NAWP loves you. Co-founded by @readinstead.bsky.social & @mitchnobis.bsky.social.
Bicoastal Review @bicoastalreview.bsky.social bicoastalreview.com
Journal of poetry (with audio), nonfiction, interviews, art, and photography - particularly on themes of the U.S. east and west coasts 🌊
@fayd31.bsky.social @fayd31.bsky.social
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
📚💙
Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social A contemporary poetry & art journal exploring liminality, existentialism, & the in-between. Featuring poetry, visual art, music/lyrics, & hybrid forms. Submissions: Apr–May & Oct–Nov.
www.audilocus.com
EIC @maudiemichelle.com
nico @nicoxrette.bsky.social 🖤 poet | emotional physicist 🌌
a madwoman with a telescope,
crying in the observatory,
making out with language.
currently submitting my entire personality
(manuscript) to presses.
art is political—so am i.
sleep token + t swift 🔁
Jessica Berg @jessicaberg.bsky.social agency director + founder @roseclifflit.bsky.social | strategic with the commas | Rep: @askamycollins
Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
danalevinpoet @danalevinpoet.bsky.social 5 books of poetry, Copper Canyon Press. Brain disturber at Maryville U in St. Louis, Bennington Writing Seminars, and a location near you. Essaying, book forthcoming 2027 Graywolf Press—
Ruth Polleys @rpolleys.bsky.social Proofreader, poet, arts appreciator / administrator.
Shelby @shelbyfisk.bsky.social
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social Poems, kids, beasts, ditches, etc.
Robert Burns Poetry Bot @robertburnsbot.bsky.social A delightful bot sharing snippets of Rabbie’s classic works. Poems of romance and radical liberalism.
Wildhouse Publishing @wildhousepubs.bsky.social
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
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.
Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social A moth cake is a kind of a
poison
A cake moth is a kind of a
phylum
Cake Moth collects strange
poems & prompts
[When stars are not stars
they are moth circuses]
Jared Harél @jaredharel.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Teacher. Drummer. Author of LET OUR BODIES CHANGE THE SUBJECT (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) & GO BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (Diode Editions, 2018)
for more information: jaredharel.com
Lexi @alexisbullock.bsky.social Writer | Associate Editor of @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social | Student | Lover of words | And food. Can't forget that
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
Harriet Riley @hatriri.bsky.social Left-leaning progressive, writer, reader, traveler, peace-seeker
Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet
SM Stubbs @xstubbsx.bsky.social Poet & fiction writer. Debut poetry collection LEARNING TO DROWN out from Gunpowder Press (Jan 2025). Would also choose the bear.
Judith Baumel @judithbaumel.bsky.social Poet. Bronx-born life-long fan of the Mets and all things Italian
Kirsten Miles @sirole.bsky.social Poet, gardener, residency host, Gentle House, Tupelo Press, Tupelo 30/30 Project, poem-a-day whisperer, sailor, handmade bookmaker, printmaker
Carolina Hotchandani @chotchandani.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Author of THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press, 2023).
Shelley Wee @weeshelster.bsky.social Big fan of democracy, human rights, planet earth, and dogs.
Birmingham Poetry Review @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social Volume 52 Out Now! | Est. 1987 | Publishing Award Winning Poetry, Reviews, Essays, & Interviews | Open for Poetry Submissions |
https://linktr.ee/birminghampoetryreview?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6e4b253-f548-4727-91da-c69865518234
Jenny Molberg @jennymolberg.bsky.social Poet ⚖️ THE COURT OF NO RECORD (LSU Press, 2023, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize). Editor @ Ploughshares. Professor @ Emerson College.
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Siân Killingsworth @sianessa.bsky.social Poet, editor, musician’s muse. Impatient. Chapbook HIRAETH available now from Longship Press. She/her.
Buy my book: tinyurl.com/52an4d8x
Roy White @roywhitepoet.bsky.social Writer of poems, fan of baseball, blind person, wag.
Mark Danowsky @markdanowsky.bsky.social EiC of ONE ART: a journal of poetry
>>> @oneart.bsky.social
⬇️ Daily Poems ⬇️
~ oneartpoetry.com ~
⬇️ Stay Curious ⬇️
~ markdanowsky.substack.com ~
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.
S. Salazar @writessalazar.bsky.social Mixed Puerto Rican author rooted in the PNW 🇵🇷 Building stories that heal & chasing ghosts ✨ Read Raíces, Relics, & Other Ghosts & my Substack 👇
https://linktr.ee/writessalazar
Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social Poet, lecturer,Cymraes #ForwardPrizeHighlyCommended Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 +Afonydd-Welsh Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees 🏴
Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Kathryn Nuernberger @katnuernberger.bsky.social I write about science, the history of science, witches, witch trials, feelings, secrets, plants historically used for birth control... Latest book is THE WITCH OF EYE.
Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Teaching Artist, Master Naturalist, Gay Mama Bear, Host of Wednesday Night Poetry. Editor at SWWIM, TERRAIN.ORG, and RISE UP REVIEW. www.kaicoggin.com
Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social Poet, author, educator, dreamer.
No DMs
www.maryannefrederick.net
John Tison @jdtison.bsky.social Hobbyist writer & poet going through corporate life. Also love TTRPGs and slow days
Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social Author of Frame Inside a Frame (TRP, 2025) | Spit (Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, 2021) | Ad Spot (Ethel Zine, 2021) | The Emptying Earth (Madhouse Press, 2023) | from Kentucky | he/him
Sam McKeon @samthepoet.bsky.social Poet Sam McKeon is a recluse, living on the remote west coast of Ireland. His work tends to focus on his inner universe the rugged landscape and moments he spends with the few people he has contact with. Poetry at appetite2write.com and music on Spotify
Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
Caiti Quatmann | writer + editor @caititalks.bsky.social New chapook: Meditations (on Cheese) coming in 2025 🧀
Caiti talks t̶o̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶
disabled & queer poet. Author of YOKE (MyrtleHaus). EIC for HNDL Magazine. Words in Rattle, Little Old Lady Comedy, manywor(l)ds, etc (She / they) 📍St. Louis
JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social Editor of Verse Daily, Dog's Heart Press, consultant, foodie, dog dad
Dana Clark-Millar @dcmillar.bsky.social Central Oregon haiku poet, writer, trail runner, urban farmer, animal lover, wanderer, wonderer, huge fan of Mother Nature.
I enjoy examining the world around me and sharing it through haiku.
I also share photos of nature and my pets.
El Duderino @nikki-b.bsky.social All energy flows by the whim of the great magnet
Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social poet | writer | artist: [Grace]iple.
Neuro[con]vergent. Di[ff]abled. A[r]tivist. [Nap]vocate for the Res[t]istance. Dog mom. Words at Pleiades, The Rumpus, Gumbo Bottoms & other wilding, miraculous meadows.
Lúthien @louveciennes.bsky.social POETRY LOVER 🕊
Hanna Patrice Pachman @hannapachman.bsky.social Poet, teacher, writer, breather, singer, experimental filmmaker.
Poems published by Rattle, Maudlin House, the MacGuffin and more: https://www.hannapatricepachman.com/poetry.html
Robert Okaji @robertokaji.bsky.social Wordherd, poet, editor, cook and washer of dishes. Oh, yeah. I have metastatic lung cancer…
Wheelofchange (Tara) @wheelofchange.bsky.social Writer, scientist. She/her. LGBTQI.
Stephanie L. Harper 🤓🌻🏳️🌈 @stephanielharper.bsky.social Neurodivergent Poet! Inventor of the In-titled Poem. Artist. Epic Cake Decorator. BIRD Lover!
"Reinventing the Tagline One Existential Crisis at a Time" - slharperpoetry.com
#BLM #AuDHD #PoetryCommunity
Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social Sometimes I write things down, whenever I get a minute.
Jennifer Franklin (she/her) @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social Poet, author of 4 poetry collections including A Fire in Her Brain (Princeton University Press, Jan 27) Teaches at M’ville MFA, 24Pearl St, Poets House, The Frost Place & privately on Zoom
Dean Kelly @deankelly.bsky.social Irish, creative sort • painting, poetry, photography • own notions https://www.deankelly.ie
Wren Tuatha @wrentuatha.bsky.social Poet/Hybrid Writer/Educator/Goatherder/Climate Refugee. She/They. Director Ithaca Poetry Center. MFA Goddard. Work in Slipstream, Pirene's Fountain, Seneca Review, Inverted Syntax, Hunger Mountain, NonBinary Review, About Place Journal, Silk Road.
Maud Lavin @maudlavin.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, CLEAN NEW WORLD, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, SILENCES, OHIO, Ed 3 anthologies, Gugg Fellow
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Blas Falconer @blasfalconer.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Rara Avis (Four Way Books 2024). SDSU MFA.
Lucy Alford @lucyalford.bsky.social Teaching poetry & poetics at Wake Forest University.
Forms of Poetic Attention (Columbia UP 2020) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/forms-of-poetic-attention/
Daylight/Savings (Black Square Editions, 2026) https://asterismbooks.com/product/daylight-savings
Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican.
Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, The Christian Century and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and J Journal.
Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
Carolee Bennett @carolee.bsky.social poet | artist | blogger | primarily WFPB
website ➡️ caroleebennett.com
poetry blog ➡️ https://gooduniversenextdoor.com/
Jeff Gundy @gundyj.bsky.social I'm a poet, biker, lucky husband, father, and grandpa, retired professor and writer in residence at Bluffton University, lifelong left-wing Mennonite, guitar player, songwriter . . . not necessarily in that order.
MJ Saucer.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer
Jo Angela Edwins @joangela.bsky.social Poet, professor, animal lover; author of A DANGEROUS HEAVEN (2023) and chapbooks BITTEN (forthcoming 2025) and PLAY (2016); Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee region of SC; tired kitty mama.
Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social author of A WELLNESS CHECK, out now w/ @gameoverbooks.bsky.social // bgwriting.org // they/them 🐀
Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker, carer, ex American. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) LL/Bridport, 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. I write all by myself, and it shows. www.elizabethloudon.com.
Cosimo Giovine @beerandcandy.bsky.social Writer & Poet, Literacy & Learning Advocate, Cat Dad, Good Cook, Publisher @ZioApolloPress (he/him)
T R Poulson @trpoulson.bsky.social University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan. Blue collar worker and writer of fiction and formal poetry (with some free verse mixed in). Ocean lover. Seeking a publisher for my first book, tentatively titled Birds Never Nest Here. www.trpoulson.com
L. Michel-Cassidy @lmichelcassidy.bsky.social Writer, poet, artist, houseboat-dweller, open-water swimmer. Collection, When We Were Hardcore, 2025 (EastOver) PEN America Bingham Prize longlist. Senior reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly.
More at lmichelcassidy.com
Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Arrowsmith Press publishes poetry, prose, works of translation, memoir, and a series of online columns. Support the literary world by checking out our website!
Robert Pegel @bobopegs.bsky.social Husband and father. Poet and dreamer. Debut poetry chapbook available now from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/sixteenyears
Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
Dawn Manning @dawnmanning.com writer, metalsmith, covered bridge troll, cat whisperer. Author of POSTCARDS FROM THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE. ND; she/they
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Josh G @jgwrites22.bsky.social Poet - Editor at South Broadway Ghost Society - published in Barren Magazine + Door Is A Jar + Others - work forthcoming in DIAGRAM
Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.
https://slowquiet.substack.com
https://maryhrovat.com
Sarah Etlinger @drsaephd.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Milwaukee. Coffee. Dogs. Most recent collection: A Bright Wound, Cornerstone Press.
Angela Janda @angelajanda.bsky.social (she/her)
poet, albuquerque
angelajanda.com
AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social audio sculptress 🔊 poetess
AGF: poemproducer.com
music: https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com
haltung: https://rec-on.org
list: https://antyegreie.com
curation #hailuotoorganum
#freequ
mstdn https://systerserver.town/@poemproducer
Alycia Calvert @alyciacalvert.bsky.social (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | #Typos | Writes weird hybridy things | EIC @HarperPalate | Res '22 & '24 | MFA '22 | PhD '26 | @hecatemagazine @thebansheejournal @writersrebel 🇵🇸🇨🇩
https://linktr.ee/alycia.calvert
Celeste Schueler @celesteschueler.bsky.social Feminist, poet, and mother living in the PNW. BA and MFA from Mississippi University for Women. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated. Peonies of Resurrection forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2027.
Conor Byron @conorbyron.bsky.social Poetry will be made by everyone,
and there will be emus in the 'zone.'
Ottawa / Montreal
https://conorbyron.com
https://www.are.na/conor-byron/reminder-yw0if6t6llg
https://soundcloud.com/conorbyron
Professional Church Mouse @hannilore.bsky.social hanni | 25 | they/them lesbian | copywriter | poet