KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Karmic Mishap (breaker of Law) @karmicmishap.bsky.social poetic fool producing full poems in my time
hostage coder
out of touch with oh so much
game as I can, read less than I should
art?
he/him. whatever
41, just for fun
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https://karmicmishap.leaflet.pub/ archives
Trampoline Poetry @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social New Orleans-based poetry journal
https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
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
Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social Author of the poetry book: The Scarecrow of My Former Self (MoonPath Press 2024, finalist for the WA State Book Award) and 3 chapbooks: Time's Apprentice 2021, Castaway 2022, Pelican's Daughter 2026.
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social Poet, teacher, Massachusetts Class D Driver. SCYTHE (River River Books, 2026), MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES (Ballerini Books, 2025), NONE BUT WITCHES (3MH Press Book Award, 2022)
elizabethsylviapoet.net
Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku @acornhaiku.bsky.social Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku.
acornhaiku.com
Sally O’Brien @sallyohbrien.bsky.social Perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.
οὐ μὲν γάρ τοι ἔτ’ ἄλλος ἐλεύσεται ἐνθάδ’ ᾿Οδυσσεύς.
Proud #PHLed neighborhood school teacher and parent.
she/her
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…
the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Albino-Poet @albino-poet.bsky.social Huge Star Wars fan. Poet, reader, cat lover.
Animal crossing
Trans rights
Behind the bastards
@nataliemarino.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social Poet and Writer 🌻Practicing physician 🌺 Work in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, Poetry Is Currency, wildness and elsewhere 🌿END OF REVELS (Bottlecap Press, 2025)
nataliemarino.com
Anna Wang @annawangyuan.bsky.social A Lifelong Student of Literature 
Half Agony, Half Hope @teamanneelliot.bsky.social Writer, mother, physician, feminist. Tea-drinker finding my Calamityware mug all too accurate these days. I don't believe pleasures should be guilty. Work in Plume, Interim, Verse Daily, Smartish Pace, McSweeney's, Beloit Poetry Journal.
Nate @nfako.bsky.social he/they // loser // poems findable
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social Best-Smelling (sic) Author, Editor @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social, Artist, Activist, Zany Wife, Dog Mom 🐾 Pinball, Pool & Pastries. 💜 Stand with #Ukraine #ResistTyrany
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elena @elenamacdonald.bsky.social managing editor @poetrydaily.bsky.social //
web editor @phoebejournal.bsky.social // gmu mfa // they/she
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Vaelros @vaelise.bsky.social Elegist | Philosopher | Historian
Searching for timeless truths in a transient world.
📖Eternal Elegies |🏔️Shattered Archipelago
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.
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
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Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
@kathyboyg.bsky.social @kathyboyg.bsky.social Poet who loves butterflies, gardens, and pit bulls named Ruthie. Philly girl who lives in Houston.
T.L. Simpson @tlsimpson.bsky.social Printz Honor Book author of COPE FIELD. Also STRONG LIKE YOU and ACCELERANT (forthcoming). Rep'd by Shari Maurer.
www.tlsimpson.net
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social ❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖
#PoetryAotearoa
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Lloyd :( @jockeycornsilk.bsky.social poetrynightly.com / Pittsburgh / lloydwallace.com
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Paraselene @paraselenemag.bsky.social A new online literary magazine for poetry and book reviews on poetry. Always open for submissions. Proud CLMP member. #1,597 on the FISH list. Posts by themichaelbeard.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paraselene
Jen Rouse @jenlrouse.bsky.social Poet 🌈
Fragments of V (Harbor Editions)
A Trickle of Bloom Becomes You (Headmistress Press)
Brandon Haffner @thebrandonhaff.bsky.social Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Prose editor @Variantlit.bsky.social
https://thebrandonhaff.com/
Anna Baker Smith @innergothic.bsky.social Over-the-counter essays
Sherrie Gavin @sherriegavin.bsky.social Social Historian, PhD Candidate in feminist academic food studies, Mormon history, author, T1D, mamabear, feminist, LDS
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 ...
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
mond.blume @punkpoet.bsky.social Half poetry, half humour, half music. Not so great at maths.📍Berlin 🗣️ Eng, Esp, Deu
My poems
poetry blog: https://blumenous-poetry.vercel.app/
on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pu7hstzvvqqtcqk3ynnwol6q/feed/aaaggbxcdjqlo
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
MEIDAS Suzanna #Resist @penelopedid.bsky.social 🌟Gold Star Sister
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Todd Osborne @tadasborne.bsky.social Poet. Husband. Cat and human dad.
Debut collection GATHERER out now from Belle Point Press!
Luke Rolfes @lukerolfes.bsky.social Author of SLEEP LAKE, IMPOSSIBLE NAKED LIFE, and FLYOVER COUNTRY. Co-editor of LAUREL REVIEW.
Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Яруу @urfeelings.bsky.social Writer | Astrologer | Nature lover | Reader | Overthinker
•She/her and her thoughts 🌸
Take care, Jules @lionhartjulian.com No, no. We're just code monkeys. It's nothing special
Robert Okaji @robertokaji.bsky.social Wordherd, poet, editor, cook and washer of dishes. Oh, yeah. I have metastatic lung cancer…
r miller @writtentherapy.bsky.social i'm not a writer. or a poet. not really. i am, however, a complete wreck. ♡
on occasion NSFW
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Julie Danho @juliedanho.bsky.social Poet who loves punctuation. Reader who racks up lots of library fines. Author of Those Who Keep Arriving (Silverfish Review Press). juliedanho.com
Carolyn Oliver @carolynroliver.bsky.social poet, etc.
Sam McKeon @samthepoet.bsky.social Poet Sam McKeon is a recluse, living on the remote west coast of Ireland. His work tends to focus on his inner universe the rugged landscape and moments he spends with the few people he has contact with. Poetry at appetite2write.com and music on Spotify
Caiti Quatmann | writer + editor @caititalks.bsky.social New chapook: Meditations (on Cheese) coming in 2025 🧀
Caiti talks t̶o̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶
disabled & queer poet. Author of YOKE (MyrtleHaus). EIC for HNDL Magazine. Words in Rattle, Little Old Lady Comedy, manywor(l)ds, etc (She / they) 📍St. Louis
Gentle Healers Academy @gentlehealers.bsky.social Fascinated by the 🧠
Fiber artist 🧵 🪡
Author
B.C. Byron @bcbyron.bsky.social I write poems and draw pictures, and some people like them
Amylamadingdong 🐈 🪁 @cats-vs-kites.bsky.social Poet. Upcycled whatnot. Disabled. Covid isn't over.
David Alexander McDonald @davidam.bsky.social AKA Steven E. McDonald, writer.
Musician, writer, poet mentored by Michael Harnett, mostly alone, tired and now here. Dismayed at watching the country that fought fascism to an end bowing down to fascism at home.
Liz Beth Turner @lbtpoet.bsky.social Reader and writer of poetry, follows poets, writers, lit mags, blocks boob-bots and silver-fox-bots. Poetry featured in Guts Publishing's Transformative Power of Tattoo and Gingko Prize AONB Best Poem of Landscape Anthology @poetsofbluesky
Kimberly Wolf @kimberlywolf.bsky.social Southern poet. Author of How the Frogs Gets Married (Bullshit Lit, July 2023).
www.kimberlywolfpoet.com
@mmargaret.bsky.social @mmargaret.bsky.social It’s okay you don’t need to follow me, I’m just here to read poetry
Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Poems.com
Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025)
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
Bítchamel Sauce @roseannaalice.bsky.social doctor of poems | maker of soups | big fan of public libraries
they/she
Oliver de la Paz @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Author and editor. Kundiman. NEA Fellow. Teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low res MFA at PLU.
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
RondaPiszkBroatch @rondapzkbroatch.bsky.social She/her Poet / Photographer / Digital Artist / Owned by Cats / Author of Chaos Theory for Beginners (MoonPath Press 2023) https://www.rondapiszkbroatch.com
Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
Marta Bilkova @martabilkova.bsky.social Logician, poet, occasional photographer. Words in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences.
𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com Read an exclusive new #ekphrastic or ‘after’ poem each new and full moon.
Subs are open Oct 1st–31st annually for the following year.
Why not also enjoy quarterly sister journal iambapoet.com?
Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com
afterpoetry.com
Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social Poet/Artist, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Modern Poets Prize), Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed)
Editor “Beyond Category”@SenecaReview
HWS Prof
Trias Writers Residency Director
www.kathryncowles.com
Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
Cover art by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi
http://www.upthestaircase.org
Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Mama Bear & Gigi
ShellieKalinsky.com
N.O’PHELAN @somesomersaults.bsky.social Poet. Ad person. Yeah, no.- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Jenny Lund @blueagle.bsky.social Independent historian & museum consultant. Writer. Latter-day Saint. Dog servant. Proud to have a restroom named in my honor.
Nidhi Gandhi (she/her/hers) @nidhigandhi.bsky.social writer, rhetorician, writing center coordinator, animal welfare advocate. I'm vibeyyyy
#rhetoric #writingstudies
EIC of @themarbledsigh.bsky.social
The Marbled Sigh Poetry Journal-OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!!!! @themarbledsigh.bsky.social A poetry journal by emerging writers for emerging writers
EIC: @nidhigandhi.bsky.social
Issue 5 is live!
Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social Poet & fiction writer, oceanography PhD & occasional container-ship rider. Author of AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR (2025, Cornerstone Press). she/her deirdrelockwood.com
Ghosting Agamemenon @ghostingagamemnon.bsky.social I am forever Cassandra (she/her/us). Lover of poetry, art, geology, cats, and tide pool creatures. Amateur photog, professional procrastination enabler. Wear a damn n95 mask!!
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social Writer, poet, gardener, hiker, ex-lawyer. Student of human nature. Humor helps.💙 ellentmcknight.com
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Danny Long @anndaniellong.bsky.social Reader & writer, mostly poems & cnf. Living w/TILT: toxicant-induced loss of tolerance. Organizer & grantwriter before.They/them.
StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her
Austin
ScribeMarjie ✍️🎨🫏🇺🇦🇨🇦 @scribemarjie.bsky.social Poet, artist, working on novel. Blue💙. Live on farm in Blue Ridge Mountains with 3 dogs, a horse, & a donkey. Author of three chapbooks. 🌱Gardener. Founder, retired, of museum on coast of Gulf of Mexico. No dm's. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine! 🇨🇦 Canadian summers.
Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social Poet, translator from German, flax fiber enthusiast.
K. T. Landon @ktlandon.bsky.social Poet ("Abide", winner of the Snyder Memorial Prize; work in The Sun, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Best New Poets). VCFA grad. Reader at Lily Poetry Review. Relentlessly sincere. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/ktlandon
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social Internationally published poet | Oxford Climate Society | Catapoetics | Catastrocene | LENORA
www.ozgelena.com & www.lenoralatin.org
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee '26
British, lives in Italy
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)