Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social Let's see: the Spanish Civil War, modernism, naps, visual culture, pedagogy, Yiddish, penguins, I-95, writing, & how to avoid just leaving my clothes on the floor instead of the laundry or closet. Senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Hannah Faith Notess @hfnpoetry.bsky.social Michigan-based poet & amateur gardener. Author of The Multitude (Southern Indiana Review Press) hannahnotess.com https://lsupress.org/9781930508330/the-multitude/
Horatio Perry @horatioperry.bsky.social - Experimental Filmmaker
- Music Nerd
- Art enjoyer
- My letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4QU6Z
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
David Livewell @dwellphilly.bsky.social Author of two poetry collections: Shackamaxon (2012 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, Truman State University) and Pass and Stow (Paul Dry Books @pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2026).
Natalie Jones @natalieejones44.bsky.social —> unc class of 2027
—> poet, writer, journalist
—> complete yapper
Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
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.
> Site: rosswhite.com
The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com. Writer. Poet. Reader. Cat person. "I bought some dehydrated water . . . I don't know what to add." --Steven Wright.
James Yates @jamesyates.bsky.social Writer, runner, basketball fan, baseball fan, animal lover, pessimistic optimist, he/him
Kimberslice♡ @kimberslice.bsky.social ♡Meidas Mighty♡
Violin & Art. `Wallace the cat. On a mission to flip magas♡
CA Mother Lode
@gentronics.bsky.social @gentronics.bsky.social 
Mr. Roswell's Neighborhood @roswellsplace.bsky.social abstract+electronic+dance music and art from B-more,MD |@roswellsplace|here to network with/support fellow artists |<3 nice ppl
https://mrroswellsneighborhood.bandcamp.com/
https://coff.ee/roswellsplace
https://roswellsneighborhood.wordpress.com/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
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
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
Austin Allen @aawriting.bsky.social Writer.
AntifaHahaha 💙 @nofascistforum.bsky.social Woke antifa 💙 boomer in CA. Lawyer.
In 1987, Reagan famously said "Mr.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Thirty-eight years later, Putin has essentially said: "Mr. Trump, tear down this wall. You need a ballroom like mine."
✡️/atheist mashup.
Jeannie Prinsen @jeannieprinsen.bsky.social Writer, copy editor, wife, mom of two autistic young adults, "Beloved Child of the House" (S. Clarke, Piranesi).
Born in PEI, live in Ontario.
https://jeannieprinsen.substack.com/
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
@grieve.dev @grieve.dev Digital thing builder. All languages were created equal except for COBOL and PHP.
Hugo @investwithhugo.bsky.social I Turned $80k Into $2M+ in Passive Income in 4 years. Now I Teach Professionals How to Skip the 20-Year ‘Trial & Error’ Phase. Grab my free ebook: https://bit.ly/45ZBlmq
Scott @whitejacket.bsky.social Retired Navy, love nautical history, history in general, literature…and Snoopy!
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
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I do not read DMs here.
M. Daniel Smith (mdanielsmith.com) @mdanielsmith.bsky.social Author of novels in multiple genres (mdanielsmith.com)
Retired, married, living close to nature
New-Englander, Mid-Coast Maine
Socially active
Poetry, my true writer's passion, and novels.
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
Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer- A @adbutler.bsky.social @adbutler.bsky.social
Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social Democracy Action Network is a citizen-led organization protecting American democracy through collective action.
https://democracyactionnetwork.com/
https://secure.everyaction.com/LBU7km7T7kaMbUnC9XqpUw2
https://democracyactionnetwork.substack.com/
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
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- W @wayover.bsky.social @wayover.bsky.social
Crisosto Apache @crisosto-apache.bsky.social Mescalero Apache Educator/Poet
Na. Am. 2SLGBTQI
Lives in Denver, CO
https://linktr.ee/crisostoapache
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
@kaidonixantoni13.bsky.social @kaidonixantoni13.bsky.social 
J @4twins.bsky.social Friendly 40-something guy. Seeking men in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and older who have an identical twin brother and are open to talking about their experience. DMs welcome!
Also on Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Kik, Fetlife, Bateworld!
@mks19.bsky.social @mks19.bsky.social 
Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
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
X-POD™ @xpodtech.com “A global technology leader developing advanced occupant‑safety solutions, including the Safety‑X‑Pod®—an ejectable, crash‑proof passenger cocoon with an integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System.” https://xpodtech.com/
Sid Hall @nhwriter.bsky.social Retired book publisher, poet, and author, battling ALS. sidneyhall.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.
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social Associate Editor, the Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge); editor, The Sun Also Rises (Norton Library); author, Ernest Hemingway (Reaktion). UNC ‘99; Fulbright, Germany ‘00-01; Penn State ‘05, ‘10. Llama. J!.
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
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social chips & dips; writing about c19 U.S. literature - wives, violence, energy; prof & union member; Detroit & Philly; Joel Embiid forever
SAGE POETESS, WRITER, EDITOR @sagetaylorkingsley.bsky.social 🌊💙🌀Protest + Mystic POET *BEAUTIFUL LATE BLOOMER* Best-Selling Author EDITOR GHOSTWRITER 100 books. LoA~Self-Love~Lover of democracy, nature, dogs, life! Kindness is my religion 🙏
TONS of poetry ➡️ https://sagepoetess.substack.com
ME-CFS Spoonie Bibliophile
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
FogTownBoy @fogtownboy.bsky.social Adult Educator. Writer. Secularist. Polemicist. Project Manager. Programmer/Analyst. Recovering SCUBA Instructor and Photographer. Husband. Father. Computer nerd. Technology beast. Veteran. Quantum entangled with my phone.
🚫DM’s, MAGA, GoFundMe, Crypto
@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
https://kimberlygibsontran.wordpress.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
@perpetualpest.bsky.social @perpetualpest.bsky.social 
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, PhD @doctorcarrie.bsky.social Professor, Applied Communication, Sensemaking Studies, and Communication Literacy, Dickinson State University.
She/He/They
Posts do not reflect DSU or NDUS.
www.playingwithresearch.com
Rowyda Amin رويدة أمين @aminrowyda.bsky.social Poet. NYC. Instagram: @aminrowyda
We go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire @sidekickbooks
Desert Sunflowers @flippedeye
Poems in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, swamp pink etc.
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social Writer, runner, hiker, dog-lover, old-house restorer, yoga instructor. Episcopalian. Great Basin College Humanities Center coordinator and National Parks enthusiast.
Brandel France de Bravo @brandelfrance.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training. Newest book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Josh Roiland @joshroiland.bsky.social Assistant Professor • Dept. of English • UNC Wilmington • Literary Journalism • 1898 • Writer • Minnesotan
Hayden Saunier @haydensaunier.bsky.social Human, writer, actor, walker, gardener…
Books: Wheel, A Cartography of Home, How to Wear This Body, Say Luck, Field Trip to the Underworld, Tips for Domestic Travel. 
Helena von Rueden @helenavr.bsky.social Music Professor. Community-building through group singing is my work passion. My kids, husband (and dogs) are my life passion. And my plants. All my plants. Also coffee.
Susan Aizenberg @susanaizenberg.bsky.social Poet/My newest book is A Walk with Frank O’Hara and Other Poems (2024 University of New Mexico Press/Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series.)
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry