Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
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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
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
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🌿Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works 2021)
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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
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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
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Pamela Moffatt @pcmoffatt.bsky.social Parent, reader, author, listener, speaker. Ph.D.
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Ren Wilding @renwilding.bsky.social they/them. nonbinary. queer. neurodivergent. poet. Co-curator of Words Like Blades reading series. renwilding.com
Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth
Porkbelly Press, 2026
Trans Archeology
Lily Poetry Review, January 2027
The New England Poetry Club @nepoetryclub.bsky.social NEPC is a poets’ association founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken to foster the art of poetic expression. We run the oldest poetry reading series in the country.
Diannely Antigua @diannelyantigua.bsky.social she. her.
little poet. big hair.
author of UGLY MUSIC and GOOD MONSTER.
host of Bread & Poetry Podcast.
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Jessica Poli @jessicapoli.bsky.social Poet, Author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), and Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
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Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Nancy Stone @nancystone.bsky.social - Writer of dark(ish) fiction and verse at ndstonewrites.substack.com
- Also writes for young people at nancystonewrites.com (GLOW, Marble Press, June 2026)
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- Asst. Editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
PolterZeitGeist on Youtube: Stories, Music, Satire @thorstennesch.bsky.social Thorsten Nesch - https://www.youtube.com/@PolterZeitGeist
Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
New novel! Kosha (Blackstone, 2027)
Past novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken
Past lives: NPR commentaries; guitar; soldier
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
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@sherriwithab.bsky.social @sherriwithab.bsky.social Sherri writes weird, sweet, and occasionally angry stories, poems, and essays. Her work has appeared in Does It Have Pockets, Rattle, Cosmic Daffodil, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, and other publications.
Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
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Theatre Wilde & Vogel @wildexvogel.bsky.social Figuren - Musik - Theater
Hamburg : 15.10.-16.10. TOCCATA
Leipzig : 31.10.-1.11. REIGEN
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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.
Clayre Benzadón (she / they) 🌕🧂🍋 @clayrebenz.bsky.social Queer (bi /pan) Sephardic-Askhenazi poet, educator, and activist. “Moon as Salted Lemon,” 2025 (2026 Lammy Finalist)
@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social poet, teacher, mom, partner, friend. 6 Poetry Books: Somewhere in the Telling, Women at the Onsen, Simple Gestures, The Moon Over My Mother's House, Talking Me Off The Roof, That Infinite Roar. Cat lover, ally, and grateful mom and partner.
Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet.
Member of the poetry collective VII
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Gerry Thibeault @gerrythibeault.bsky.social Poet — Epistaxis Telepathica https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H6T6RX47
Fannie H. Gray @mrsfanster.bsky.social Writer of flash and short stories
*Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell re the novel
Aspiring Paid Traveler
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J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
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Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts