Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
LoLo&NikoNiko @wiskansan.bsky.social Writer.
Feminist.
Secular humanist.
Applied psychologist.
🇳🇴 🪶 Native Northerner. 🪶 🇳🇴
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Discover you’re not really alone, read!
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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
The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social Connecting Modern Societies to Ancient Worlds. Ancient Office Hours Podcast & The Reading Party Podcast. Pnyx Digital Magazine. #history #Archaeogaming #podcasts #reception #digitalhumanities & more!
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Paratextos @paratextos.bsky.social Paratextos es un proyecto virtual, sin fines de lucro, de curaduría de poesía y prosa poética universal en español, inglés, portugués y francés.
www.paratextos.com
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
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
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online Poet. Philly sports fan. Proficient recorder and tambourine player. Published in Whale Road Review, South 85 Review and Anti-Heroin Chic. Co-wrote Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems (Seven Kitchens Press).
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.
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social I’ve done a few things. I’m not quite done yet.
Jaime Hylton, orophile and librocubicularist @jaimehylton.bsky.social Reader, traveler, ponderer. Maîtresse chez moi. I was raised by books. #Post-Post
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Lisa Lynn @lisabolynn.bsky.social Liberal
Humanitarian
Environmentalist
Spiritual (not religious)
Animal Lover
Civil Servant
(Politics, Forensic Science, Cooking, Hiking/Beach, Arts, Australian Shepherds)
Programmer/Analyst
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Marnix ten Brinke @marnixtenbrinke.bsky.social Writer, journalist, historian
Just finished murder mystery After Death Do Us Part manuscript.
'The word versatile has been applied to me before.'
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VC Williams @vcwauthor.bsky.social Writer, reader, idealist, world traveler, and observer of the human race. I write Historical Fiction, dabble in cozy mysteries and YA time travel. Compassionate soul, and lover of mankind. https://vcwilliamsauthor.com/
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AvaTeedro.com @avateedro.bsky.social 🚫DMs - Ava writes propulsive, upmarket and historical fiction that explores friendship, family ties, and love.
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Buchstabensalat @buchstabensalat.bsky.social She/her. Science journalist, writer, feminist, and meme thief. I have a black belt in sarcasm & sing with passion. My debut novel 'The Prophecy' is on Amazon: https://mybook.to/The_Prophecy No DMs.
Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com NYT Worstselling Author
SFF📚, Satire, Comedy, Absurdist
Dummest Person in the Room
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Flabbergasted @noshadowcantouch.bsky.social 🌊It’s a mad mad world out there when you butter your toast on the wrong side. Anxiety weighs heavy on my shoulders. Hold on to your butt cheeks; gonna be a bumpy ride. 🌊 I ALSO love Horror movies, Ozzy, Star Trek, and my 5 rescue dogs. Married. NO DM.
Cameron Lamp @cameronlamp.bsky.social Millennial, lifelong Democrat, AZ/UK/FL/WA. Anti-Fascist, Pro-democracy, #TeamJustice! #CovidIsntOver #SlavaUkraini #FuckTrump
“the most well-read ADHD OCD ND hypersomniac ex-BP-I ex-DID (personality-associated) ex-psychopath around”
Catherine Rossi @catrossauth.bsky.social Published author of creative nonfiction essays. Community advocate/volunteer. Amateur Musician. Proud UMich alum. Canes hockey fan. Lover of cheese. https://catherinerossi.com/
💚Charlotte Donlon @charlottedonlon.bsky.social > MFA in Creative Writing + Spiritual Director
> Books: The Great Belonging (‘20) & Spiritual Direction for Writers (‘26)
> Starter Packs:
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> https://charlottedonlon.com
artsed4all @artsed4all.bsky.social 
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*
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social Writer, poet, book editor, hope monger, cranky pacifist, effusive introvert. Author of five books. Braided Way editor. she/her Ohio 6a/ ecoregion 8 lauragraceweldon.com
The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.
Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
Freelance Editor at EARLY MORNING EDITS.
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social HS English teacher who does some writing (unpublished histfic novels, some shorts, some poetry), dad. he/him
www.ryanflovewriter.com
Tony Bravo @tonybravosf.bsky.social Arts & Culture columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, farmer’s market patron, small dog person.
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social ‘’Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945
Leia Bryant the Redneck Feminist🌷🧬🧿🥛🍓🌙💭🖤🌀👗🐈🎲🥕🎲🧂🛗🥚𐦴♄ιᛈ≗θη⚢☭θΔ⛤⁷🌸🌙 @leiabryant13.bsky.social ⛤Ophite Gnostic⛤Psychic Witch
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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social cognitive medievalist (researching climate in medieval literature) | working remotely at Durham University, UK | lost decade at The SunBreak & Seattlest | outdoor photographer see https://mikevanbaker.myportfolio.com/work
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Colin Dardis @purelypoetry.bsky.social poet / editor / sound artist / creative human thing. Edits Poem Alone blog. Publisher at Rancid Idols Productions. Co-runs Purely Poetry open mic night in Belfast. Latest collection 'with the lakes' available from above/ground press.
Tad Garish @tadgarish.bsky.social Lawyer, #poet, shipwreck, excitable boy
I follow (back) poets, writers, artists, & other creatives, jokesters, academics, autodidacts, & other lost souls
#TTS friendly
The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Editors: @tejaswineerc.bsky.social & @ankitrajojha.bsky.social • Murals Editor: @fbereaud.bsky.social • Contributors from 63 countries • https://linktr.ee/thehooghlyreview- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social poet | author of
PICTURING | End of the Line Press
ALL THIS DIVIDE | Spuyten Duyvil Press
WILDERNESS//KINGDOM | Floating Bridge Press
https://t.co/gcu0NORJ2h
they/them 🌈 | All opinions are my own.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social 🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
Coleman Glenn @colemanglenn.bsky.social Husband, dad, New Church (AKA Swedenborgian) minister, occasional writer of occasional poems. Poetry collection: A LITTLE LIGHT (2024)
Substack: alittlelightverse.substack.com
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Sister Merry Peter, SPI @sistermerrypeter.bsky.social Queer nun raising joyful resistance!
www.thesisters.org
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.
Robert Allen Poet @robertallenpoet.bsky.social I write poems, take long walks, and seek beauty everywhere. I'm a poetry coach and tutor. 2x BotN nominee (2024).
New chapbook, "Aphasia" is out from Inkfish Press! $7!
www.robertallenpoet.com
www.x.com/RobertAllen
https://www.inkfishpress.co.uk/aphasia
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Micah Chatterton @micahchatterton.bsky.social Writing Instructor. Former-ish librarian. Waiting for a new heart. Author of GO TO THE LIVING. http://amazon.com/author/micahchatterton
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, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social The International Yeats Society unites scholars, students, and readers of W.B. Yeats from around the world. Become a member today!
https://internationalyeatssociety.org/
G. E. Schwartz @geschwartz58.bsky.social words, etc.
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Elysium Review @elysiumreview.bsky.social Poetry of Pleasure, Delight, Wonder, Love, and Joy
www.elysiumreview.com
ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social a journal of poetry and more poetry and more poetry | editors @jacobschepers.bsky.social & Sara Judy | submissions always open | issue 3.1 out now | ballastjournal.com
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Mighty Quinn @mightyquinn17.bsky.social Progressive Gen Xer
Ally
BLM
Compassion
Human Rights
Reproductive rights
Healthcare
NPR super fan
Overuser of exclamation points
Pathologically Optimistic
I’m checking out profiles before I follow back and looking for humans with compassion and fire!
Liberally Las Vegas @liberallylv.bsky.social Las Vegas A’s. Runnin rebels. Unlv football. Las Vegas raiders (trying) Golden knights. UNLV Alum. All about reciprocation. (and politics)
JJinSF @jjinsf.bsky.social Documentarian, ally, columnist (SF Bay Times), volunteer & professional do-gooder. Big on democracy, kindness, pie, opera, poetry, good spelling, & SF Giants baseball. Honorary Wisconsinite & Alaskan. Also on the former bird site @jjinsf. 
The Political Diva @thepoliticaldiva.bsky.social Using my voice. Interested in politics and the arts. Bots will be blocked. 
Anneinoc @anneinoc.bsky.social Dem, retired lawyer, mother of adult sons, worrier about women’s rights, climate change, NATO, democracy…looking for kind, concerned thinkers here
Meg McSweeney @solange-fairwell.bsky.social Childless cat lady/humorless scold.
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social She/her. hot sad jewish lady.
writer sometimes, mostly tired.
poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere.
my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social poet laureate of the gay nude beach.
Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). my pronouns are secret. Seattle. allysonang.com
Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social Author of Monograph (National Poetry Series, UGA Press) & Ampersand Revisited (National Poetry Series, Fence Books). Posts daily poems by others. he/him
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) 🎥
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social 🇬🇾| she/her | poet | MFA UNCW | EARTHLY GODS (Variant Lit, 2024)
https://beacons.ai/jessicanirvanaram
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
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
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social they/he/el
tejano writer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
i write words @ transpoetica.substack.com