John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
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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
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
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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
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Rob MacDonald @rhmacdonald.bsky.social Editor of Sixth Finch / poet / educator / consultant at Trey Education (he/him)
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Will Stanier @flatstanley.bsky.social Poet, printer, and librarian. Bookmaker and homemaker. Everything Happens Next (Blue Arrangements, 2021). Living in Richmond, VA.
David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
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Suzanne Richardson @oozannesay.bsky.social Writer, Ph.D. Candidate CNF @ SUNY Bing CNF editor Midway Mag. “Three Things" & former poetry ed. @nocontactmag Coedited: D&D Anthology Roll for Initiative (Play Story Press)
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Tony Honk @tonyhonk.bsky.social Honk eye
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Mike Young @clementinewasright.bsky.social 
Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social Author + host of Otherppl, the weekly books & culture podcast.
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joshuapobutts @joshuapobutts.bsky.social Asters. Poems.
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Toby Altman @browatch.bsky.social I teach at MSU and run the RCAH Center for Poetry. My new book is Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2026).
Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com Rochester NY. professor at RIT, artist, & author of "How To Be A Design Student." talking at http://instagram.com/mgoldst & arting at http://instagram.com/mgoldst.art. Extrememly bad bass player. He/him. mitchgoldstein.com/art
Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊
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Katy Henriksen @soundoffkaty.bsky.social culture obsessed journalist :: publicist at Riot Act Media :: live music producer
humanity is not an algorithm /// art is labor /// trans lives matter
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Jen Tynes @jentynes.bsky.social Walks and writes and forages and teaches.
Emily Skillings @emily-skillings.bsky.social Poet, friend, and that’s kind of it!
Sampson Starkweather @sampsonstarkweathr.bsky.social Poet's poet's poet's poet's poet.
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A. Loudermilk @aloudermilk.bsky.social aloudermilkwriter.wordpress.com
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Marty Cain @martycain.bsky.social Poet / bisexual dad / aging punk freak / library worker in Ithaca NY. Author of three poetry books including The Prelude (Action Books, 2023) & monograph on rural poetic community forthcoming from Clemson UP. Vox in Joyous Shrub. He/him
www.marty-cain.com
Zachary Schomburg @zacharyschomburg.bsky.social Writes, paints, etc.
http://www.zacharyschomburg.net/
Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social Holding poets to the light • A passion project by @andhow.bsky.social • est 2005 • https://readalittlepoetry.com/ • https://ko-fi.com/readalittlepoem • Poet's Field Notes (tdelosreyes.substack.com)
Sarah Sgro @sgrotesque.bsky.social "the tony soprano of digital waste management" / writing another internet novel / contains 150 real meatballs 
Tyler Dorholt @tylerdorholt.bsky.social family member / educator / maker of words & images / likely running in woods, listening to jazz, parenting, or teaching
Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
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Louise Mathias @mojaveforever.bsky.social Author of three books of poems including What if the Invader is Beautiful (Four Way Books 2024). Small business owner. Amateur naturalist. Lover of the open road.
dylpaxton @dylpaxton.bsky.social dylanengland.com / delpaxton.bandcamp.com
Matthew Klane @matthewklane.bsky.social Poetry, collage, mouth trumpet. Albany, NY. New book: Of the Day. New record: Too Little Too Late. Co-curator of the poetry and performance series @salon-salvage.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/matthewklane
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.)
Diana Cao @dianacao.bsky.social poet/lawyer. she/they.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi @gabbat.bsky.social Poet Person. The days I don’t kill myself are extraordinary. Here for community and animals eating carrots. For booking readings and other businessy stuff contact Vaughan Fielder at The Field Office. Thanks! https://www.fieldofficewriters.com/gabrielle
Burnside Soleil @burnsidesoleil.bsky.social My debut has a really long title (TRP: The University Press of SHSU 2026). Call it Berceuse Parish, for shot. Just here to talk about books. www.burnsidesoleil.com
Elizabeth Threadgill @ejthread.bsky.social Poet | Poems in swamp pink, Poet Lore, The Offing, Fugue, & elsewhere | neurowild 🍄| Assoc. Prof. of English in CNY | from Marfa, TX
Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
jonathaneveritt.com
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…
Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social queer | poz | poet | jazz head |
associate poetry editor @thehooliganmag
MFA @WarrenWilsonMFA
writings/workings at
DareWilliams.com
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.
Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social Illustrator / cartoonist / writer. HERMIT MAGAZINE editor. Wrote and/or drew stuff for MAD Magazine, WFMU, The New Yorker, Penguin Random House, Cartoon Network, punk bands, etc
Buffalo, NY
philintheblanks@gmail.com
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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social Purveyor of words & images / Author of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY (UNIV. OF NEBRASKA, 2026) & INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES (SARABANDE, 2020) & its hotline: 619-329-5757.
www.adamodavis.com
Adam Haver @adamhaver.bsky.social Writer • Poet • Fiction • Willie Morris Award • Translation • Wolf Conservation
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
Conduit Books & Ephemera @conduit.org www.conduit.org
Daisy Fried @daisyfried.bsky.social Poet, critic, learning a few things. Four books:
The Year the City Emptied
Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
She Didn't Mean to Do It
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social Poet + Translator / New Book: THE END OF CHILDHOOD (Milkweed Editions, March 2025) / Editor of Copper Nickel / Co-director of the Unsung Masters Series / http://waynemillerpoet.com
Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social • Helping writers get into print since 1991.
• Poets on Poetry Series Editor (Univ. of Michigan Press): https://poets-on-poetry.carrd.co
• Author of ‘On the Verge of Something Bright and Good’ (Barrow Street) & ‘Inconsequentia’ (BlazeVOX).
TR Brady @trbrady.bsky.social yr local recluse | poet | MFA '19 IWW | co-edits Afternoon Visitor | Return Signal forthcoming from Fonograf Editions
www.trbradypoet.com
Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social Poet of the attention economy. Literary recovery fanatic.
Author INFINITE SCROLL (Tupelo Berkshire Prize, 2027) and RESIDUUM. Co-Editor OTHER LEGACIES (Wesleyan, 2026).
Co-Director unsungmasters.org
Lecturer climate justice UC San Diego. martinrock.us
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
The Unsung Masters Series @unsung-masters.bsky.social "Admirable!" —The New York Times
"Combines scholarly rigor with poetic chutzpah!" — Kenyon Review
The Unsung Masters Series brings great unknown writers to new readers. Distributed for free to subscribers of Gulf Coast and Pleiades.
unsungmasters.org
Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
https://sixthfinch.com
Travis Nichols @travisjnichols.bsky.social Director of https://tinyurl.com/y2y3rkts
Editor of http://bit.ly/326rRrY
Author of http://bit.ly/2x7mxCB & http://bit.ly/2CO2DSi
Formerly of CARE, Stand, Greenpeace, Poetry Foundation, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Seattle PI, Amherst Books, Flagpole, AHS Web
Farid Matuk @faridmatuk.bsky.social Pay Caesar in Caesar’s coin
https://www.faridmatuk.com/
https://linktr.ee/farid_matuk
Poetry Society of America @poetrysociety.org Poetry: I, too, like it. The nation's oldest poetry non-profit.
matt romey @romey.bsky.social aint no way im on here
Justin Marks @justinmarks.bsky.social Poet, parent, co-founder and editor Birds, LLC. If This Should Reach You in Time available from Barrelhouse books.
noah warren @nowarwarren.bsky.social poetry & c19. asst prof @ UVM. Destroyer (2016), The Complete Stories (2021). 
Joyelle McSweeney @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social Poet, critic, publisher 
Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social poet-type person
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
William Allegrezza @wallegrezza.bsky.social Poet, editor, teacher, hiker, bass player. Curator of impractical slogans, archivist of transliterated images, wrangler of imaginary water buffalos.
Jesse Nathan @rudemechanical7.bsky.social The San Francisco Poem (Scribner 2027), One Question (McSweeney's 2026), Eggtooth (Unbound Edition Press 2023)
Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher.bsky.social Poet, writer-about-books, Director of Special Projects @ Bennington Writing Seminars, father, dog lover, etc.
Deb Olin Unferth @debolinunferth.bsky.social Wrrrittter
Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
Katy Lederer @ledererledes.bsky.social Following, following...
Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social a nonprofit, independent publisher
https://www.floodeditions.com
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Canarium Books @canariumbooks.bsky.social A poetry press. Paris, Marfa, NYC, Chicago.
www.canarium.org
Just Buffalo Literary Center @justbuffalolit.bsky.social Creating and strengthening communities through the literary arts since 1975 📚
www.justbuffalo.org
Kim Chinquee @kimchinquee.bsky.social Mom, writer, professor, editor, dog-lover, triathlete, veteran, vegan. USAT Certified Official.
www.kimchinquee.com
Christina Milletti @christinamilletti.bsky.social Fiction Writer, Associate Prof of Contemporary Fiction, Executive Director: UB's Humanities Institute. Curator: Exhibit X Fiction Series. More at www.christinamilletti.com 
Andy Grace @andypgrace.bsky.social poet, professor at Kenyon College, editor @kenyonreview.bsky.social, https://www.andrewpgrace.com/
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
Leslie G @leslieg.bsky.social Poetry, expressive figurative art, dance, visual art, citizen of the world.
Ricky Ray @rickyraypoet.bsky.social Poet | Essayist | Eco-Mystic | Disabled | Neurodivergent | MFA @ Bennington | Books with Diode Editions, Broken Sleep & Fly on the Wall Press | Sings & things at rickyray.earth
Noah Stetzer @noahstetzer.bsky.social editor @BullCityPress | #SLC #PGH | he/him/his 🏳️🌈 👬🏻
Shira Dentz @shirad.bsky.social poet w/books, pubs & other qualities
Prince Bush @princebush.bsky.social Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)
https://prince-bush.com
Jacques J. Rancourt @jjrancourt.bsky.social New book BROCKEN SPECTRE out now from Alice James Books | he/him | 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
www.jacquesrancourt.com
Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Former Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow & @NEAarts Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social Author of Meltwater (Milkweed 2023), Redmouth (Tinderbox 2019), and Wilder (Milkweed 2018). McKnight writing fellow. Winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize and The Crystal Shrek. She/her. Twin Cities. Linktr.ee/wahmanholm
Dan Brady @danbrady82.bsky.social Poetry Books: Songs in E—— (2023) Subtexts (2022) Strange Children (2018).
Editor for Barrelhouse.
Sometimes comic writer.
Arlington, VA.
Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free
Sara Eliza Johnson @saraelizaj.bsky.social author of BONE MAP (National Poetry Series/Milkweed 2014) and VAPOR (Milkweed 2022), vagabond, black hole, all around disappointment
Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU (AJB, 2027) | Alice James Award for IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY | commissions @ Paramount, 9/11 Memorial, Holocaust Memorial