E. LYNN ALEXANDER @elynnalexander.bsky.social ART POETRY ZINES MICROPUBLISHING BOOKFESTING & CATS @elynnalexander on IG/FB
Poetryhole @ourpoetryhole2000.bsky.social There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle, but not right now. A darkening thrush, a skylark, & a nightingale walk into a bar & order Ludlow Ale. Someday, we’ll synthesize hyacinths & biscuits.
@laurenhollsmith.bsky.social @laurenhollsmith.bsky.social 
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social poet • advocate • silly person
Liz @lizsdebo.bsky.social 
The Book of Pandora @pandora-books.bsky.social Dangerous books, subversive literature, poetry, and thought-provoking quotes, along with the occasional pretty photo. Sometimes NSFW.
Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
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
Michelle Penn @michpenn.bsky.social Poet
RETABLO FOR A DOOR (shearsmanbooks, 2026)
PAPER CRUSADE (arachnepress, 2022)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A DIVINER, FAILING (paper_swans_press, 2018)
michellepennwriter.com
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social poet, translator, prof | 2026 National Poetry Series Paz Prize for Poetry | the deering hour (Ornithopter) | The Space of Disappearance (SUNY) | Cartographies of Exile (Routledge) | dir. The Elegy Project | dir. Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
E. A. Bourland @eabourland.bsky.social Black lives matter. Women are people. Science is real. Respect veterans. Read to children. Read old books. Don't take the bait. 323ppm. DC Statehood. Walkable cities. Freedom of conscience. https://hwaet.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.
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
Luise📚🚲 @arkhikernc.bsky.social Writer of sci-fi and random poetry. If you see me out in the wild on my bike, say hello. 🚲⌨️📝📚
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social Dad, husband, maker of food, rider of bike, Brooklynite, movie watcher, reader, music listener, person who looks at his iPhone too much, literary agent at UTA
Walking Checkov's Kiss @walkingairquotes.bsky.social Omnia Extares
@samuelamadon.bsky.social @samuelamadon.bsky.social 
アドニツィオ・ジュゼッペ @giuaddo99.bsky.social Italiano…di Napoli … fedelmente cattolico apostolico romano…libero professionista nel settore tecnico… felicemente sposato con Rosa dal 1983… papà di Luca e Claudia… nonno di Luca e Andrea… grande tifoso del Napoli.
Amethyst Loscocco @amethystwrites.bsky.social Writer, binge reader, and science nerd. Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. Words in Electric Lit, Pinch Journal, Catamaran, Variant Lit, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, and more.
https://amethystloscocco.com
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social https://sixteenrivers.org/
Jeanne Marie 🖋️📚🪡🚆 @jmtokunaga.bsky.social She/her. Angry since November 2016. Reading, sewing and watching old movies to get through the nightmare. Happy in libraries, bookstores, fabric stores, antique malls, and on trains. Resident of Elk Grove, Sacramento County.
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Cinema, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Alexandria Bellani @alexandriabellani.bsky.social Just a writer and a goblin
@thomasolsen18.bsky.social @thomasolsen18.bsky.social 
@raquelpoet.bsky.social @raquelpoet.bsky.social 
Tiffany S. @tiffanysciacca.bsky.social 
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Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
@jenythjopoet.bsky.social @jenythjopoet.bsky.social 
@jonlavieri.bsky.social @jonlavieri.bsky.social 
Jose Padua @josefpadua.bsky.social Writer, poet, author of A Short History of Monsters, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. https://linktr.ee/josepaduawriter
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social Internationally published poet | Oxford Climate Society | Catapoetics | Catastrocene | LENORA
www.ozgelena.com & www.lenoralatin.org
Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Annie Przypyszny @apryps.bsky.social Poetry MFA @ UMD // intern at the DC Writers Room // reader at Bicoastal Review // poems in Sugar House Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Tampa Review, Bear Review, SWWIM, The Shore, The Emerson Review, etc. // annieprzypyszny.com 🌷🌸🌺
Poetry Flash @poetryflash.bsky.social 
L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social Poet • Books: THE DAUGHTER OF MAN (UAP, Miller Williams Poetry Series, 2023), BATTLEDORE (FLP, 2017) • Contrib. Editor, Tupelo Quarterly • Faculty, writers.com
https://ljsysko.com/
Low Society @metacapitalism.bsky.social Deeply committed to opposing MAGA. my pup, books, TV, old movies, jazz, rock, and classical music, beach walks, writing (fiction and non-fiction), abstract painting, stone sculpting, deep sleep, and non-violent villainy.
Maureen Gibbon @maureengibbon.bsky.social Novelist: Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet, Paris Red, Thief, Swimming Sweet Arrow. Poet: Magdalena.
Rep'd by Nicole Aragi.
www.maureengibbon.com
@marmeladeontoast.bsky.social @marmeladeontoast.bsky.social 
Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
Jason Poole @j-poole.bsky.social 
Laurie Antonioli @laurieantonioli.bsky.social Musician, educator, writer, mother, grandmother, cat-lady, and cook. Here to stay updated on the state of our country. Ready to resist. 
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).
Moira Egan @moiraegan.bsky.social 
@marylisawd.bsky.social @marylisawd.bsky.social Not Your Mom's Poetry
@bethoastwilliams.bsky.social @bethoastwilliams.bsky.social Poet, Board Member at The Muse Writers Center
Jonathan Kiefer @kieferama.bsky.social I wrote the movie Around the Sun and sometimes write about other movies and work for the Roxie Theater and teach at California College of the Arts.
East Bay, CA | jonathankiefer.com
Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social Poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, etc. Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos. DRIVING THE BEAST (poems) forthcoming from LSUP in 2025.
Dawn Manning @dawnmanning.com writer, metalsmith, covered bridge troll, cat whisperer. Author of POSTCARDS FROM THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE. ND; she/they
Michelle Ryan @michellearyan.bsky.social 
@sjgrimm.bsky.social @sjgrimm.bsky.social 
Zachary Kluckman @physicalpoet.bsky.social Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Chicharra Poetry Festival Organizer & Proud Papa. Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize selected by Oliver de la Paz and The Red Mountain Press National Poetry Prize. 
Turducken Carlson @liberalbubble.bsky.social 💙 Karaoke diva, lawyer, hobby baker, bar trivia assassin, world traveler, marathon runner, cat collector, true crime junkie, EV driver, PTSD disaster, boy mom, smartass. 💙 she/her
Deb Busman @bluedog77.bsky.social Writer, Professor emeritus Creative Writing and Social Action, lover of social justice and all things dogs. Editor: FIRE & INK: ANTHOLOGY OF SOCIAL ACTION WRITING; Author: LIKE A WOMAN, novel
@4-poetry.bsky.social @4-poetry.bsky.social 
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
@hhamilton.bsky.social @hhamilton.bsky.social 
@kirstenkjell.bsky.social @kirstenkjell.bsky.social Bookstore elf, queer, writer, music maker, friend to most animals.
Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social Writer/Founder of the Athens Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. he/him
Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Jana @janaruss.bsky.social History buff. Feminist. Cat lover. Coffee afficionado. Poet. Reader. Cranky old lady. 
Yazbec @yazbec22.bsky.social Dad, writer, editor, Associate Professor of English-Teaching, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Sleep researcher. Script consultant. Yazbec.org
Novel "Charlie's Bequest," 2018 Balderdash Award Winner. Substack: Northern Sky
Michele McDannold @oneldammit.bsky.social Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press, Founder of The Literary Underground, Publisher at Citizens for Decent Literature Press
Asadollah Amraee @asadamraee.bsky.social مترجم و روزنامهنگار
Translator and Journalist
Jenna Brooks (Glatzer) @heyitsjenna.bsky.social Hi. Fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, reviewer. Cozy gamer (Stardew Valley, Pikmin Bloom). Single mom. Person with vocal disorder. Democrat. Your ally. She/her. Still loves Buffy. Still hates Nazis.
www.jennaglatzer.com
@patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social Curator Welshpool Poetry Festival. Hosts Verbatim open mic & facilitates Touch Paper workshops, both at the Poetry Pharmacy Bishop’s Castle. Has 3 pamphlets (I mean written by me! I’ve got a lot more pamphlets by other poets in my library!)
Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025
pennysharman.co.uk
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/
Tracey Knapp @traceyknapp.bsky.social Poet. Author of MOUTH (42 Miles Press, 2015)
traceyknapp.com
Julian Matthews @julianmatthews.bsky.social Poet, writer, essayist. Links: http://linktr.ee/julianmatthews
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
A. Loudermilk @aloudermilk.bsky.social aloudermilkwriter.wordpress.com
aloudermilkquirky.com
www.facebook.com/th.a.loudermilk
Grant Faulkner @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social Co-founder of 100 Word Story, Write-minded podcaster, Executive Producer of America's Next Great Author, Co-founder of Memoir Nation, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.
And, oh yeah, writer.
Accidental Law Professor @jagdillard.bsky.social Crim/Crim Pro/Evid/PR/Law&Pop Culture
Capital Defender #FirstGen #Wellesley
Mostly thinking about misogyny + cathexis + courtroom attire at
https://startwiththeclothes.com/
https://jagdillard.com
Paula Coomer @paulacoomer.bsky.social Dreamer, writer, editor, writing coach, artist. Long-time university writing instructor and facilitator of Clearwater Writers retreat programs. Fun fact: one of her books was nominated for the Pulitzer. For more info, go to http://www.paulamariecoomer.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
Kathy @khoop.bsky.social Live life, share joy, give grace, be kind.
Tom Xensen @txensen.bsky.social Words, images
Publishing professional, writer, translator, painter, photographer
Not a bot -- please visit me at my personal website, www.rightreading.com (right reading, left leaning)
ASWB @aswb4names.bsky.social 
Lisa Badner @bklynbad.bsky.social Poem writer with a day job. 🏳️🌈✡️
Andrea N @andreainwanderland.bsky.social