Pierce Press @piercepress.com Publisher, podcaster, sculler, book shepherd, once & future farmer. VP at IPNE.org. Publisher, 🇺🇦 author OlegVeretskiy.com. Submissions ➡️ PiercePress.com/contact. Approved DMs only.
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF 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 🏳️🌈
Suzanne Mercury @queenjewelweed.bsky.social Poet, artist, bee whisperer, dweller in possibility. Author of Hive (Lily Poetry Review and Press 2023) as well as numerous chapbooks.
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
Patricia Caspers @patricia-caspers.bsky.social Writer, reader, eic @ West Trestle Review, librarian, UU, mama, rider of bicycles. 🚲 🚲
Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
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/
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
@ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social 
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Ivana Stradner @ivanastradner.bsky.social Research Fellow @FDD, Special Correspondent @KyivPost || Russia’s information warfare. Epictetus. Views my own.
Svet DiNahum @svetdinahum.bsky.social Author, Escape from Crimea
Co-host at Volya (Freedom) Radio: https://x.com/Volya4UA
Glory to Ukraine!
Dani @daniray.bsky.social NYC based essayist, lifestyle writer and editor, thinker, animal lover, music fan, dreamer
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Bob Estes @onscrn.bsky.social Texas roots but more than half my life in Boston area. PhD in Physics, UC Berkeley; US-Italian Space Shuttle missions; 60-odd poems published: Louisville Review, Gargoyle, Cola Literary Review, The Moth, Masque & Spectacle, The Madrigal…- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub ירמיהו אַהרן טאַוב @yermiyahu-a-taub.bsky.social Librarian, Poet, Writer, and Translator of Yiddish Literature.
Jessica Brilliant Keener @jbkeener.bsky.social Author of Nat'l bestselling novel, Night Swim| Indie Next pick & SIBA bestseller, Strangers in Budapest| award-winning stories, Women In Bed| new novel, Evening Begins the Day (pub: 3.24.26)| Believes in positive change
Donna Baier Stein @dbswriter.bsky.social 🖋️Award-winning novelist, poet, playwright
📖 Featured: NPR, PBS, O Magazine, London Global Film Festival
📜 Tiferet Journal (https://tiferetjournal.com)
https://donnabaierstein.com
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
clementine🍦 @clemscoop.bsky.social 
Lucian Childs @lucianchilds.bsky.social BOOKS: Confluence, Dreaming Home, Building Fires in the Snow. WORK: Writer's Digest, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Ex-Puritan, more.
Todd Mercer @toddmercer.bsky.social Fiction writer, amateur scholar of languages, poet, catering cook, warm-up pianist to real event pianists, dog Dad.
Ingenue (2021) / Life-wish Maintenance (2015)
Box of Echoes (2007) / Sheets of Sound (2002)
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.
Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #poem
🐦 wild & flower 🌼 @tzynya.bsky.social Disabled mermaid writing the Black woman body in nature in illness and in joy. Also poet.🧜🏾♀️
@joanleotta.bsky.social @joanleotta.bsky.social 
Jessica Ballen @jessicaballen.bsky.social Slightly funny, slightly poet; @_j___esus on Instagram
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
jennifer badot @jbadot.bsky.social poet. foot soldier for truth and beauty. knight in amour. author of A VIOLET A JENNIFER (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022)
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
Orion Green @oriongreen.bsky.social Artist
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
Glenn Sheldon @gsheldon57.bsky.social 
Lucille Lang Day @lucillelangday.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books
Lady on a Wire @ladyonawire.bsky.social Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤
Read more about her sh!t at www.ladyonawire.com
The Vinyl Vault 🎸🎤🎧🎵🥁 @thevinylvault.bsky.social 🎵 The Vinyl Vault Show 🎵
4 friends.Iconic albums.Heated debates. Pure nostalgia.
From the 80s to the 00s, we dive into the greatest albums, sharing timeless classics and our opinions
🎧 Catch all our episodes on MixCloud:
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Debbi Voisey @dublinwriter.bsky.social Writer. Pushcart and Best Micro Fictions 2025 nominee. Published @fairlightbooks & @shortstorymag. Mentor. Tutor. Novel THE RESET published 2025 with Bloodhound Books. Email dublinwriter@hotmail.co.uk
Jane Heller @jheller1.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author of 14 novels of romantic comedy, as well as “You’d Better Not Die or I’ll Kill You,” a guidebook for caregivers, and “Confessions of a She-Fan” about my love for the NY Yankees.
IanHall24959 @ian24959.bsky.social Came 4th out of 5 in an under 9 race at Pakenham; not much after that. No dms thanks. 🙏
Matt W Miller @mattwmiller.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Educator, Husband, Dad, Surfer. Aender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (UNT), and Cameo Diner (Loom). Stegner Fellow, VCCA Fellow, Walter E Dakin Fellow. https://www.mattwmiller.com/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Bill Yarrow @billyarrow.bsky.social Poet, collagist, retired prof of English. Want any books from my gargantuan library? Divesting!
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Jolene McIlwain @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social Writer ✏️| SIDLE CREEK (Melville House) NPR & Library Journal Best Books of 2023📕 | Outside Kid 🌿| Motocross Fan 🏁 | HipCamp | Gardener 🪴| Scuba Mom 🤿 | www.jolenemcilwain.com
Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, 🇪🇪, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life, NY➡️NC
www.susanbarryschulz.com
#keepmasksinhealthcare
#abolishICE
Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
Tommye Blount @tommyeblount.bsky.social Detroiter who is the author of the poetry collections FANTASIA FOR THE MAN IN BLUE (Four Way Books) and WHAT ARE WE NOT FOR.
The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Stephen Kuusisto @stevekuusisto.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, disability activist, and dog lover. Travels and lectures widely on literature and human rights.
Leslie Adrienne Miller @slipfast.bsky.social Poet/Author. Graywolf Press/Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita. Perpetual student of light.
lesliemillerpoet.com
Happiest When Writing New Poems @amydry.bsky.social Perennial late bloomer. Poet. Worker. Parent. 🏳️🌈Ally. She/her.
@lisamcivor.bsky.social @lisamcivor.bsky.social 
Pat Gomes @patgomes-author.bsky.social Poet, playwright, author. Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts 2014 - 2021. Anthologies include Wicked Abandoned, The Lycanthropicon, and Potters Field 8. 
Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
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.
https://lynnekemen.com/
@margoberdeshevsky.bsky.social @margoberdeshevsky.bsky.social Poet, photographer, global citizen, author of 6 books ..see:
http://margoberdeshevsky.com , linktr.ee/instamargomargo
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social Poems. Reviews. Essays. Latest poetry collection The Last Corinthians (https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul).
‘[…] an exceptionally well-crafted collection.’ - Acumen
www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog/books
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 ...
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
@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.
Hélène Cardona @helenecardona.bsky.social #BAFTA #SAGAFTRA Actress + VO Artist in 6 languages 🌍 | Poet • Linguist • Producer | Life in Suspension, Dreaming My Animal Selves | #Chocolat #Upload #TevinaVeth’aal
https://helenecardona.com
http://www.imdb.me/helenecardona
johnmfitzgerald.bsky.social @johnmfitzgerald.bsky.social Poet with a law license.
The Mind (Salmon Poetry)
Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry)
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/john_fitzgerald
Ken Harvey @kenharvey.bsky.social Writer (Book of Casey Adair, University of Wisconsin Press), Bennington MFA, basset dad, Canadian & US citizen, LGBTQ+. Home is Toronto. Loves Madrid, film, theatre, literature, dogs, progressive politics, classic sitcoms. Visit kenharvey.net 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
Colette Sartor @colettesartor.bsky.social Writer/Teacher/Obsessor | linktr.ee/colettesartor | ONCE REMOVED (Flannery O’Connor Award) | CineStory Executive Director | Proud Feminist | Em-Dash & Oxford Comma 💙er | she/her
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Alexandre Ripoll (Author) @alexandre1.bsky.social #Exegete. Collector of rare #Bibles. Professor University of Valencia. #Author #mystery #novel English and Spanish. Graduate in Political Science and Sociology Western Mediterranean (Spain)
@rknester.bsky.social @rknester.bsky.social 
Phil Temples @ptemples.bsky.social Author of 6 mystery-thriller novels, a novella, a screenplay, 7 book anthologies, and over 260 short stories online. Amateur radio enthusiast, K9HI. UNIX Systems Administrator and former software engineer. Used to be a paperboy when I was a kid. So there.
Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social Runner. Reader. Music and history. Poetry. Shakespeare. Film. Tweets in English and German.
Currently listening to a lot of music from 1977 and 1978.
Janis La Couvée @lacouvee.bsky.social Writer and poet with a love of green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River. Likʷal̓a language learner. Words in Book of Matches Isele Magazine, PaddlerPress AntiHeroinChic, among others. janislacouvee.com
Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social MFA poetry, Warren Wilson College. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. Zero tolerance for fascists. https://linktr.ee/hannahsilverstein
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Editor | She/her | Author of WHIPSAW (Anhinga Press, 2024) | FIXED STAR (JackLeg Press) | + 2 more & five chapbooks | assistant poetry editor at Terrain.org | editor at $ Poetry is Currency | https://linktr.ee/SuzanneFrischkorn
Chris Banks @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
Mauro Javier Cärdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (Dalkey) APHASIA (FSG) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (Coffee House Press).
Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
Liberties | Salmagundi | World Literature Today
📚 amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
lucie brock broido bot @lucie-bot.bsky.social posting the best lucie poem titles daily more or less
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucie-brock-broido
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Renuka Raghavan @renukarag.bsky.social Writer
Associate Editor at Červená Barva Press
Author of Out of the Blue (Big Table Publishing, 2017), The Face I Desire (Nixes Mate, 2019), and Nothing Resplendent Lives Here (Červená Barva Press, 2022)
Pushcart and Best Small Fiction nominee
Amanda Newell @thenewellzi.bsky.social Poet with a day job in Ops. Author: Postmortem Say (Cervena Barva 2024); I Will Pass Even to Acheron (Rattle 2021). Associate Editor at Plume. Proud Wally. Very feral.
Margaret Diehl @margaretkd.bsky.social Poet, fiction writer, lover of cats and woods and NYC. No DMs please.
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him