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Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
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
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, essays & art. Since 2003, where readers, writers, teachers & students meet. Our free library is always open.
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Jenny Johnson @infullvelvet.bsky.social Poet and essayist.
www.jennyjohnsonpoet.com
In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017)
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Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Jenny Qi, Ph.D. @jennyqi.bsky.social Author, Focal Point (2021)
freelance med/sci writer, poet
essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc.
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Justin Priest @justinpriest.bsky.social Fisheries nerd, rstats and dataviz afficionado, #akleg enthusiast, lover of all things Alaskan
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Cynthia Moon @cynthiamoon.bsky.social poet 🪴 therapist
poems in Best New Poets, minnesota review, DIAGRAM, Frontier, The Florida Review, & others
formerly published as Cyndie Randall
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 ...
Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
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Original Poems @originalpoems.bsky.social Original Poems is a free poetry resource listing thousands of open source poems.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social words in Libre, Ghost Parachute, Flash Fiction Magazine, Moon Park Review, Ergot, Maudlin House, Frigg... fiction & poetry reader at @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social
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Matt Minicucci @mattminicucci.bsky.social Award-winning poet w/ difficult last name.
https://acre-books.com/titles/dual/
Lindsay Wilson @lindsay-wilson.bsky.social Poet & Professor in Reno, NV. Author of The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat and No Elegies. Poetry editor at The Meadow
www.lindsaywilson.net
Heidi Czerwiec @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social Essayist and poet, author of CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY: STRIKE A CHORD and FLUID STATES. Sr. Editor at Assay. Perfumista and forager. She/her
Jaye Kranz @jayekranz.bsky.social Audio producer. Poet. Writer. Work on/in BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, The Monthly, Australian Book review. Poems in: Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Florida Review, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite 🌈 https://linktr.ee/jayekranz
Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
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Hannah Nahar @hannahnahar.bsky.social poet & writer & elsewhere
poems in West Branch, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, & other places
hannahnahar.com/writing
Teri V @terivela.bsky.social She/her. Poet, mother, queer, witch, cactus. Latina. Assistant poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. Warren Wilson MFA alum. 🍉🍉🍉
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
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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.
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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
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
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social Poet 👼 Warren Wilson MFA. Brooklyn, NY.
Robert Wood Lynn @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social poet sometimes. collection Mothman Apologia (2022 Yale University Press) and chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact (2023 Button Poetry). Kate Tufts/Yale Younger/NEA fellow
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Kate Gaskin @kategaskin.bsky.social Poet. Person. Parent. Possum.
Author of A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart (LSU Press 2026) and Forever War (YesYes Books 2020). katebgaskin.com https://substack.com/@kategaskin
Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social Poet • educator • ariellemkaplan.com • editorial team & newsletter @agnimagazine.bsky.social
sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social wrote TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD (University of Nebraska), MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( YesYes Books) and co-wrote THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( Fiction Collective Two ). For online poetry classes, manuscript consultation & more ---> sophieklahr.com 
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Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku @acornhaiku.bsky.social Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku.
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social Poet. Editor. Mother. Artichoke Season (2009), The Years That Went Missing (2020). Editor: Acorn (acornhaiku.com). Co-editor: The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: Volume Two (2024). Publisher: Spare Poems Press. she/her
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).
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Alice White @poetalicewhite.bsky.social Poet/human in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Scott Wilson @scottwilsonkc.bsky.social Editor, writer. Views mine. I know who needs to hear this. Kansas City, Missouri
Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
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.