Story Street @storystreetwriters.com Writers' collective. (A bit like an ant farm but much less organized) Exploring how to stay afloat in this world of words.
Alicia K. Anderson, Ph.D. @akanderswo.bsky.social Coach, Storyteller, and Instructor. Ph. D. in Mythological Studies and Depth psychology. Expert in a lot of niche subjects. Autistic. Chronically ill. Living my best life in New Mexico
CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social We're a national literary journal and a young writers' conference at Washington College in Chestertown, MD
Becky Tuch @beckyltuch.bsky.social Fiction & nonfiction writer, Founder of Lit Mag News
K Weber @midwesternskirt.bsky.social poetry, collaboration & sometimes digital photo collage. 12 self-published poetry collections (FREE/some in audio format!). kweberandherwords.com
Miranda Lynn Barnes @luminousjune.bsky.social poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/
For open research, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/mirandab-oa.bsky.social
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Erin Brown-John @eebeejay.bsky.social Writer, science communicator, maker/mender. I like to spin yarns.
Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social Co-hosted by poets James Allen Hall & Aaron Smith. Online at https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.
30 min shows every Monday. We're like a poetry quickie in a filthy motel with a faaaaaabulous library!
Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid.
@bookchantment on Instagram
Adam Powers @adampowers.bsky.social Climate & cleantech creative 🌐 Poet Laureate & Culture & Engagement Manager @ CleanChoice Energy 🌞 Queer TXan in MD 🌎 They 🏳️🌈 Born @ 355 ppm
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words/doodles: petrichor, Potomac Review, Water-Stone Review, Copper Nickel, Word For/Word, Sonic Boom.
https://nodiff.com/
SE Johnson LaBarbera @tinypoet.bsky.social Fast. Thorough. Sharp as a tack.
Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023)
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
Dan Alter @arlozoroff.bsky.social Poet translator father man of many trades - My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear 2022. Take A Breath, You're Getting Excited (translations) Ben Yehuda, 2024. Hills Full of Holes, Fernwood 2025.
danalter.net
Megan Merchant @meganmerchant.bsky.social Poet (Glass Lyre Press / Stillhouse Press), (New American Press), Children’s Book Author (Philomel Books), Editor (Shiversong, LLC. / Pirene’s Fountain) , Visual Artist. Mother (Exhausted / Coffee).
Brian Simoneau @briansimoneau.bsky.social Poet & teacher. Author of NO SMALL COMFORT (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) & RIVER BOUND (C&R Press, 2014). He/him.
https://www.briansimoneaupoet.com
Andrea Jurjević @andreajurjevic.bsky.social Poet, writer, literary translator & visual artist from Croatia (former Yugoslavia) 🌊Faculty at Georgia State University 🌍🏹
https://andreajurjevic.com/
Rye Ellis @ryeellis.bsky.social narrative strategist 🧄 abolitionist
ryeelliskatz.com
book: And Then the Gray Heaven (Dzanc Books) 🎠
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
R.B. Simon (Rene) @poetrbsimon.bsky.social Poet. Artist. Managing Ed. @ Harbor Editions. Mother, disabled, queer, black, radical liberatory harm reductionist. 2021 Chap: The Good Truth (FLP), 2023: Not Just the Fire (Cornerstone). Mar 25: Bird, Blood, Bone (Milk & Cake).
Jessica Poli @jessicapoli.bsky.social Poet, Author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), and Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner
www.jessicapoli.com
Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social Poet. nature culture. woodland gardens. chöd practice.
https://marygilliland.com/
http://AmericaIsHardERToFind.wordpress.com
#MakeArtNotWar #InArtWeTrust
In the Pool of the Sea’s Shoulder, Ember Days, The Devil’s Fools, The Ruined Walled Castle Garden
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
Allison Wilkins Bakken @wilkinspoet.bsky.social RYT 500, Poet, Mom.
www.writingworkshopsingreece.com 
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social American-Australian poet; Pushcart and Best of Net nominee; Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, San Antonio Review, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle Society, Wombwell Rainbow… #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Co-host of Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry and Culture. All opinions are my own. 
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
Home: chestnutreview.com
https://linktr.ee/ChestnutReview
Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
• Neurodivergent •
Queer Nonbinary & Trans Woman
Poetry Collections: Lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social (Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Alejandra Oliva @olivalejandra.bsky.social writer, embroiderer & translator | RIVERMOUTH out now | she/her
cream city review @creamcityreview.bsky.social University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s graduate student run lit mag. Publishing art, fiction, CNF, poetry and more since 1975!
https://beacons.ai/creamcityreview
(Cover art by Amal Azzam)
fera silvae @ferasilvae.bsky.social forest gardens, folk tales, and collaborative futures 
JJ Surtees @jjsurtees.bsky.social Pushcart prize nominated. Writer. London. Published Unsung Stories, Idle Ink, Liar's League, Fictive Dream & others. - H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
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
Paige @paigemoreau.bsky.social Writing, wandering, wondering
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
Sarah Cave @cavepoet.bsky.social Writer, artist, experimenter, ordinand, hedgeling.
Poetry Dr @Prayer.
The Book of Yona (Shearsman, April, 2024)
Editor (Guillemot Press) PhD/AuDHD
Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social Poet, Co-Editor of @ballastjournal.bsky.social
www.jacobschepers.com
www.ballastjournal.com
@jacobschepers on the gram
ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing
EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social
💌 https://alocasia.org/newsletter/
🌱🌱🌱 ALOCASIA.org
ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social www.ANMLY.org/
www.medium.com/anomalyblog
https://www.anmly.org/newsletter
Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
Header by Ṭaüs Jafar.
Glyn Edwards @glynedwards.bsky.social How to make a Paper Grenade - Verve
In Orbit - Seren Books
Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available now: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
H.E. (Helene) Fisher @hefisher.bsky.social Poet. Author. Editor. Late bloomer, early riser. She/they. STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022), JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). Co-Ed: @reideasjournal. https://www.hefisher.com/
NO DM’s.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Jessica L. Walsh (she/her) @jessicawalsh.bsky.social Poet, author of Book of Gods and Grudges
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social Lit writer: poetry collection @mooncitypress, CNF @splitlippress, novella from neutral zones press. My work is landscape-immersed and character-driven. Interests are broad. NH->CO->WA https://claudiaputnam.com
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social Global gathering space for anyone connected to or interested in the New York School: poets, scholars, artists, curators, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and more... www.nnyss.org / https://www.youtube.com/@networkfornewyorkschoolstu2697
Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Former Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow & @NEAarts Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
Aiden Heung @aidenheung.bsky.social Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
Tariq Thompson @tariqthompson.bsky.social Poet. he/they. LONE LILY. NYU MFA ‘24. tariqthompson.com
sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social native (nanticoke) genderfuck crip neurodiva. autistic. trans. etc. editor type.
http://linktr.ee/sarah_clark
read stuff i edit (please):
www.anmly.org/
www.beestungmag.com
www.ALOCASIA.org
board: www.sundresspublications.com
Brittney Corrigan @brittneycorrigan.bsky.social Author of THE GHOST TOWN COLLECTIVES and poetry collections SOLASTALGIA, DAUGHTERS, & others.
https://brittneycorrigan.com/
https://linktr.ee/brittneycm
Frank J. Tassone @fjtassone2.bsky.social Husband. Father. Writer. Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Sarah Etlinger @drsaephd.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Milwaukee. Coffee. Dogs. Most recent collection: A Bright Wound, Cornerstone Press.
Jess Melilli-Hand (she/her) @jessmelilli-hand.bsky.social Poet, professor, pickle-lover
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Poems in Painted Bride Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, poemmemoirstory, the minnesota review, redactions, Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, Limp Wrist, CALYX, etc (some been a min…need to submit…some as Jessica D. Hand)
Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social Poet. Spy. Author of IN PARACHUTES DESCENDING (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) and LATEST VOLCANO (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016).
http://linktr.ee/tanajeanwelch 
Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social Paper collages from junk mail, some digital stuff. No AI. Poetry, prose, essays & hybrid work. Wildlife & climate. Small but furious. Still masking, still persisting. Reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social, blog at cbauder.com 🅥
Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social Seth Copeland
Okie in MKE :: poet :: anarcho-grammarian :: aging golden retriever
Author: Instead of Sunshine (Bottlecap Press, 2026).
Edits @petrichorlit.bsky.social
Cohost @tabipopoetry.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/sethcopeland
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social public interest law/policy/advocacy always. opinions and idealism all mine. 🔗 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/leadership-in-government-fellowship
KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
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/
Zoë Fay-Stindt @zoefaystindt.bsky.social queer, land-based, bicontinental poet & essayist (france/US) / pushcart, BNP, BotN noms / work in Terrain, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore & elsewhere / Hellbender Gathering of Poets Fellow / resident at Santa Fe Art Institute / they/she
Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social Lit journal, cellar door knocker, sic semper tyrannis. Work reprinted in Best of the Net. Open for poetry submissions now (September 1st - 20th)!
www.rustandmoth.com
www.duotrope.com/listing/13546/rust-and-moth
MNFuglei @mnfuglei.bsky.social Teacher, writer, knitter, screamer into the void just trying to get by. Whiskey & jokes help. Skeets are me, all me, unrelated to my day job. 
Leslie Doyle @lespdoyle.bsky.social Writer--essays and fiction in NYT, Electric Literature, The Forge, Cutleaf, Brevity Blog, Sunlight Press, Phoebe Journal, and elsewhere. Best Americsn Essays Notable. Environment, New Jersey, Mets, books, kayaking, biking, kindness. Doting grandma.
jj rowan (they/them) @jayjayrowan.bsky.social “poet” or whatever
new england treehouse dancer
complete fool
jayjayrowan.substack.com
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
Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
ellipsea sick @whotwotewho.bsky.social Writer/Teacher
Words with Celestite, Leon Literary Review, Daily Drunk...
Best of the Net Nom
Blank Verse Enthusiast
https://leonliteraryreview.com/author-bio-neil-barrett/
Chris Guppy @guppytree.bsky.social Writer, artist, part-time badass, bad gardener, mediocre dancer, decent mom. She/ her
Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd
linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
Claire Kortyna @ckortyna.bsky.social NF Writer, Professor, nature-nerd.
Expert in the kind of trivia that’s never asked during trivia. 
Jarfly Magazine @jarflymagazine.bsky.social SUBMISSIONS OPEN | Guidelines at thejarflymagazine.com | A small but powerful magazine of poetry and essays. Edited by
@iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social
PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social LA Poet/ Latinx Author of 6 books including La Belle Ajar with CLASHBooks, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegria Publishing and La Lengua Inside Me from FlowerSong Press
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ @petrichorlit.bsky.social Text & image depository. Digipoetics since 2016.
Editors: Seth Copeland, Caleb Jordan, Amanda Ngoho Reavey
https://petrichormag.com/
(art: Annalynn Hammond; Michael Paulukonis)
The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike.
https://linktr.ee/theshorepoetry
Lisa Ampleman @lisaampleman.bsky.social Poet (Mom in Space), parent, editor (Cincinnati Review; Acre Books), space nerd.
Emma Johnson-Rivard @blackcattales.bsky.social Doctoral student. Writer of weird poetry and queer horror. Works in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Brooklyn Review, Tales to Terrify, and others.
https://linktr.ee/blackcattales
aidan @aidanaragon.bsky.social they/them/theirs
poet, loser, fag ✨
linktr.ee/aidanaragon
Jen Moore @jenmoore.bsky.social Poet, professor, Gemini, mom || Easy Does It (Akron, 2021) || Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens, 2020) || The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015)
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
Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com