Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
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Wendy Vardaman @wendyvardaman.bsky.social Writer | designer | maker
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James Croal Jackson @jamescroaljackson.bsky.social IATSE Local 161 - Nashville, TN. Poetry chapbooks: A GOD YOU BELIEVED IN (Pinhole Poetry, 2023); COUNT SEEDS WITH ME (Ethel, 2022) OUR PAST LEAVES (Kelsay Books, 2021) THE FRAYED EDGE OF MEMORY (Writing Knights, 2017).
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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social Seth Copeland
Okie in MKE :: poet :: anarcho-grammarian :: aging golden retriever
Author: Instead of Sunshine (Bottlecap Press, 2026).
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d✌️ @artdeanlife.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Michigander. Maybe a poet? But track record says I’m a poser.
Listener of music. Reader of books. In summer see me at Lake Michigan a lot offering the appearance of being hip because I am wearing sunglasses. 🏳️🌈 Gen X for life.
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social Teacher, dad, union thug, poet. I teach writing and philosophy at Henry Ford College in Dearborn.
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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social Poet, academic library scholar, chronic illness life. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), more. See www.colleensharris.com
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & fiction dabbler 🧐| Author of 7 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com
My Bad Poetry @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Aaron and Dave dive into the private journal written while Aaron was in high school. Some amazing poets have come on to share their own bad poetry.
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Joseph Radke @josephradke.com Re-emerging poet. None of my e's are silent!
Poems in Copper Nickel, Bellevue Literary Review, Boulevard & Southeast Review (forthcoming)
📖 my work ⤵
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social ✊🏽 Unapologetically Black poet + writer.
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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦 @jempoetry.bsky.social Poet & visual artist
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DE House Poet Laureate•‘24 DDOA poetry Fellowship
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ND brain•Forest-rooted🌲
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Cori Camp (Corrie Clements) @camp-cori.bsky.social Help a girl out—apparently, writers need a platform.
Mom, writer, feminist, teacher, animal-cuddler from Vegas. Found my voice as a widow. Published: Evergreen Review. Work performed: Bowery. Dreaming of quitting my day job—don’t tell my boss! ♥️ my fiancé.
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
BiblioVandal @bibliovandal.bsky.social Malligator mom 🐊Wifey 💍 Editor ✍️ Flower Lady 🌺 Wrangler Witch 🧙🏻♀️ Library Aficionado 📚 Final Girl 🔪- C Ching-In Chen @chingin.bsky.social Author of 'shiny city' (forthcoming, Airlie Press) + 'recombinant' (Kelsey Street Press) + 'The Heart's Traffic' (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Tea-drinker. Soup-maker. Trouble-maker. Anti-packer.
Adam Linson @adamlinson.bsky.social making music. research: theoretical neurobiology, psychiatry (stress/trauma) + philosophy, CogSci • 📍Edinburgh, Scotland • angeleno clandestino • Asst.Prof. Computing & Communications, Open U • http://percent-s.com • feeds: tacos🌮📷, @scotusfeed.bsky.social
Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social Writes poetry, fiction and academic-y things. PhD. modernism, Irish Literature. kellyesullivan.com.
Toledo Blade (poems) with DGP; Moose Lottery(novel) with https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-moose-lottery
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
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.
Lisa @chillrogmom.bsky.social Democrat-Married -Mom of 3 adults-MIL to 2 other amazing humans-childhood cancer mom-1 beautiful granddaughter -5 granddogs -1 grandcat & my 14 year old border collie Izzy-retired with a side hustle. union lead local4129-🚫DM-**All opinions are my own**
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Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com A writer and artist and programmer and sweatshirt.
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Robert van Vliet @letterspace.org Poet. St Paul, MN.
Offline for September 2026.
inventions (above/ground 2026)
Vessels (Unsolicited 2024)
This Folded Path (above/ground 2023)
Blog: www.letterspace.org
Homepage: www.robertvanvliet.com
“Don’t give her money back.”
he/him
Anthea @nikkicarter11.bsky.social For we must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from the outside, but also against those oppressive values which we have been forced to take into ourselves. -Audre Lorde
Johnny Cordova @johnnycordova.bsky.social Co-Editor @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social • Author of The Broken Buddha (Roadside Press) • Former poker dealer • Retired Bikram Yoga instructor
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Debt Shop Boi @debtshopboi.bsky.social Toronto-based synthpop-industrial-darkwave-electropunk artist. Lover of black cats, hater of fascism. https://linktr.ee/debtshopboi
Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social husband & father, educator & writer
Kira Córdova @kirarambles.bsky.social Boston-based, Pushcart-nominated writer and sometimes tall ship sailor with work in Poetry Lighthouse, Outdoors Unlimited, The Acentos Review, and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts
www.kirarambles.com
kirarambles.substack.com
Craig Beaven @craigbeaven.bsky.social 4 books of poetry, most recently In Arcadia (Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series) and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize.) Poems in Pleiades, Tin House, Hollins Critic, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, etc. PhD Houston
Joanna Fuhrman @joannafuhrman.bsky.social Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
Natalie Schriefer @nschriefer.bsky.social Freelance writer | Academic editor | Bi/demi | I cover gaming, books, identity & health | www.natalieschriefer.com
JLSchmidtAuthor @jlschmidtauthor.bsky.social Writer, left coast & left leaning, special needs parent, retired paramedic, frmr Police dispatcher, supporting 🧩 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ✊🏽… Eat the rich, tax the church.
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social (she/her) Poet, songwriter, finder of lost things. Lover of the amphibious. Endearingly uncool. Occasional open mic performer. Visit https://prairievixenpress.ca/about/ for a list of places to find my poems.
Shashanna @shashanna.bsky.social Mom, music therapist and multi-instrumentalist musician. breast cancer and domestic violence survivor. Feminist as f.
I write poetry- author of “Survival Haiku” and “Cancer Doesn’t Give A F*ck.”
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/
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)
Stephanie L. Harper 🤓🌻🏳️🌈 @stephanielharper.bsky.social Neurodivergent Poet! Inventor of the In-titled Poem. Artist. Epic Cake Decorator. BIRD Lover!
"Reinventing the Tagline One Existential Crisis at a Time" - slharperpoetry.com
#BLM #AuDHD #PoetryCommunity
J.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
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.
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
Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
David Harrison Horton @unionherald.bsky.social Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
westofcanon @westofcanon.bsky.social
westofcanon.com.
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Lauren M. B. Connolly @lmbconnolly.bsky.social Writes four hundred and sixty-five river miles from the Pacific Ocean.
casey dawson @caseylikekc.bsky.social pool boy at the vampire mansion + occasional writer. 
mk? @stonespiral.bsky.social 🏰 poet + artist
🕯️'to light a candle' poetry workshop est. 2023
📖 two chapbooks: Garden of the good Flowers & Brentwood
🖊️ writing in: eunoia review, anti heroin chic, pile press
Session 11:
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Lisa (Elizabeth) Turner @lhornert.bsky.social Hiya!
Fiction Chapbook w/Black Lawrence Press! https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/horsemouth-and-aquariumhead/
Poetry Chapbook: The Tales of Flaxie Char @dancinggrlpress.
she/her
Glengarry Glen Rachel @chrispb.bsky.social Future Criterion closet thief. Poetry, pints, fries. M/WNBA. Songs missing bridges. Shawarma connoisseur. Older than some dirt. Open to kindness.
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
bottomlless @msaotbtchzeywk.bsky.social Gregarious misanthrope, optimistic nihilist, jovial existentialist.
Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social Freelance illustrator and fine artist based in Philly via LA and Maine. Art, cats, absurdity. Plus I’m the Democratic Committee Person for the 2nd Ward, Division 10 in PHL 🤙🏼 Phillies + Eagles! Linktr.ee/martharichart
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Lisa @saltlock.bsky.social Poet; author of At Night & 11 chapbooks; lover of little mysteries.
https://lisaciccarello.com/#welcome
Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social Punk, weirdo, lefty, comics creator, psi fi, magical realism, existentialism, metaphysics. Theater of the absurd. Creator of Pink Zombie Rose, a Graphic series - A Contagion Of Enlightenment. Undead Psychonauts will either save the world or end it. 💀🥀