s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Digital journal and chapbook press. We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. Journal submissions always open! pinholepoetry.ca
Feral:A Journal of Poetry and Art @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social 
$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social www.poetrycurrency.com
Anti-capitalist and inclusive online literary magazine. Always open for poems.
Posts by editor https://bsky.app/profile/stevendschroeder.bsky.social
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
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Hudson Valley Writers Center @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social We bring language to life through workshops, readings, publications, and outreach to Westchester and beyond!
https://www.writerscenter.org/
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Bernadette Geyer @bernadettegeyer.bsky.social I write. A lot. About lots of things.
Author of What Haunts Me (April Gloaming) and The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works).
Recent writing in @swwim.bsky.social, stadtsprachen, Quibble Lit, and elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/bernadettegeyer
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social Tiny, friendly poetry press based in Pennsylvania. Just two great books a year for now. More at juneroadpress.com and linktr.ee/juneroadpress
Anthony Cody @anthonycody.bsky.social Poet: The Rendering & Borderland Apocrypha w/
Omnidawn | American Book Award, Whiting, Nat'l Book Award Finalist & other things | Co-publisher at Noemi | Faculty at Randolph Low Res MFA
https://linktr.ee/anthonycody
The Citron Review @thecitronreview.bsky.social 🍋 A Journal of Brief Literature - est. 2009
We publish poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, micros and Zest. 🍋
https://citronreview.com/
JR Walsh @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social JR Walsh is the Online Editor at The Citron Review. He teaches poetry and fiction at SUNY Oswego. Find his writing on itsjrwalsh.com.
Tyler Mills @tylermpoetry.bsky.social Recent books: The Bomb Cloud (@unboundedition.bsky.social #memoir) and Poetry Studio (@uakronpress.bsky.social #poetry #craft). Brooklyn.
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
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.
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
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read.
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
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
@oomenam.bsky.social @oomenam.bsky.social 
Ellen Austin-Li @ellenaustinli.bsky.social poet, friend, mother, lover
Debut full-length poetry collection, INCIDENTAL POLLEN, can be preordered through Madville Publishing:
https://madvillepublishing.com/product/incidental-pollen/
Nicole Callihan @nicolecallihan.bsky.social 
Valerie A. Smith, Back to Alabama, Sundress '24 @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Author of Back to Alabama www.valeriesmithwriter.com
Fb Valerie A. Smith Poetry
IG @Valeriesmithwriter
TikTok @Valerie.smith6
LinkedIn Valerie A Smith, PhD
Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social Poems, kids, beasts, ditches, etc.
Nathan McClain @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social Author of PREVIOUSLY OWNED and SCALE from Four Way Books. Food and wine lover. Edits poetry for the Massachusetts Review.
Megan Pinto @megg-bean.bsky.social www.meganpinto.com
Cynthia Marie Hoffman @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer.
Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
@danushalameris.bsky.social @danushalameris.bsky.social Poet/ Writer. “Small Kindnesses” poem. Latest books: Bonfire Opera and Blade by Blade. Pac U MFA faculty. For more info on classes, books and events see linktr.ee/dlameris
Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social Another dude with fancy notions.
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN. https://linktr.ee/michaelkleberdiggs
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social Poet in Residence at Frame's Pest Control. Toriphile. X-Men fanatic. Editor/Publisher glasspoetry.bsky.social . Book: Main Street Rag. Chapbook: Sibling Rivalry Press.
http://www.glass-poetry.com/anthonyframe.html
Sarah Lyn @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social I help writers honor their own voices and creative rhythms through ms feedback, consultation calls, & tarot readings. Author of COSMIC TANTRUM (Curbstone Books, 2025)!
sarahlynrogers.com
@hannahlarrabee.bsky.social @hannahlarrabee.bsky.social 
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Danny Elfanbaum @delfanbaum.bsky.social Prose, code, bikes, cats, etc. Non sequiturs.
St. Louis, MO → Boston, MA.
Runner of twopagetuesday.club.
Projects at github.com/delfanbaum.
Rambling at bikesbooksandbullshit.com.
Emily Skaja @emilyskaja.bsky.social Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (2019) & BLACK LAKE (Graywolf 2026).
frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social Person of @LizzieTask. Love letter writer. Neighbor, organizer, unpaid worker w an MBA & PhD & student debt, mistake maker, complexity holder, queer as in who I ♥️ + #anticapitalist #abolitionist #StopTheSweeps #HarmReduction
displaced #bospoli => ME
Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Julie A Jenson @julieajenson.bsky.social Listening and Poetry
Researcher in Healthcare and Healthcare Systems
www.juliejenson.com
Pamela Richardson @pamelatkdwriter.bsky.social Martial Artist. Writer. Wife. Friend. ADHDer. Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis. Human.
Carolyn Oliver @carolynroliver.bsky.social poet, etc.
Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com 
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Erin Murphy @erinmurphy.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Editor. Penn State professor. Swimmer. Cat & cava lover. http://www.erin-murphy.com/
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
cathy mcarthur palermo @cathymcp.bsky.social Poet, Flash Fiction and YA Writer, Teacher in NY. Alto Singer
Find my work in Crab Creek Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Lily Poetry Review The Rumpus, Juked, Cordella, Peatsmoke, Gargoyle, Bellevue Literary Review, Whale Road Review,Silver Birch Press
Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social English professor, Cajun, proud Minnesotan, RPCV, honorary poet according to multiple poets, Geaux Tigers, buy my late wife's book: www.umasspress.com/9781625347787/chamber-after-chamber/?fbclid=IwAR3hL6m5aPWGYbf3TSRdmneqrQFp1OePTMOiDJJOzT8hpZCCYY
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Leslie Adrienne Miller @slipfast.bsky.social Poet/Author. Graywolf Press/Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita. Perpetual student of light.
lesliemillerpoet.com
Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social Solstice MFA is a full-time, two-year program that helps you further your writing practice with a high level of professional proficiency while developing your unique voice in a supportive community.
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Lucky Jefferson (LJ) @luckyjefferson.com we're the sugar to publishing's kool-aid; publishing emerging writers & artists everywhere. follow our newsroom @15west.org.
SUBMIT 👉🏽 luckyjefferson.com
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social Writer, Community College Faculty, Fig Companion, Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency, PDX OR
Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc.
Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”
Catherine Parnell @victoriancat.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
Neurospicy
Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
Patricia Ann McNair @pattymcnair.bsky.social Pens. Coffee. Good journals. World peace. Gritty stories. Science. Democracy. Nutty bars. Cats. Cacti. A few of my favorite things. BOTYA: THE TEMPLE OF AIR. Resident of Spain.
Tricia Bogle @boglepoetry.bsky.social Tricia (Trish) Bogle, Ph.D. (she/hers) is a Missouri-born poet & bioethicist who lives in NYC with 2 cats and a windowsill full of plants.
Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Jennifer Espinoza @sadqueer4life.bsky.social poet / lovergirl
https://open.substack.com/pub/jenespinoza/p/inversion?r=54m0ma&utm_medium=ios
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
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
Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social Online lit journal publishing a “couplet” (pair) of related poems per author. www.coupletpoetry.com EIC @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social 
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her
www.taylorbyas.com
Sarah Ann Winn | Poet Camp @poetcamp.bsky.social I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo
*And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5!
PoetCamp.com
RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social Independently published journal of poetry, translation, and flash. Crashing and creating for 50 years. 🦏
rhinopoetry.org/
Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social A high humidity journal of poetry / Queer, fluid, trans affirming / currently publishing 3x a week / Home to the #FullMoonHaikuContest / 🏳️⚧️ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
Natalie Giarratano @nattyg.bsky.social Colorado poet, editor, mama. New chapbook of poems out now—Molecular Memory (also the author of Big Thicket Blues & Leaving Clean).
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
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.
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
Order Unrivered ! https://tinyurl.com/4pj96v59
Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/djvorreyer
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
M Soledad Caballero @msoledadcaballero.bsky.social Poet, Literature & WGSS Professor, Book: I Was a Bell (Red Hen Press, 2021) & Book:
Flight Plan (Red Hen Press, fall 2025). More writing stuff: msoledadcaballero.com
Also: I LOVE birds of prey.
Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art.
THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE (Ghost Peach Press, 2024)
Poetry Editor at Driftwood Press
www.christennoelkauffman.com
Amy Baskin @amybaskin.bsky.social Poet. Connectress. Aunt Beast.
SKULL (The Poetry Box, Dec 2024)
NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2022)
Martha @marthamcc.bsky.social I like poetry, science, easy vegan recipes, and the ridiculous. Poems in The Bear Review, The Boiler, radarpoetry.com, etc. My second book, “Trash Witch”, will be out in February.
She/her
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮
Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025)
https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/
www.dmurphy.online
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
cleveland poet @clevelandpoet.bsky.social poetry * cookies * whiskey * wrestling * museums * horror movies * unions * vinyl * art * coffee
not necessarily in that order.
he/him https://linktr.ee/clevelandpoet
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty 
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 www.hanvanderhart.com
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social Poetry and nonfiction / art and communit(ies) / plants, animals, kids /community college / co-host Constellation Reading Series / she/they
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (Diagram ‘14)
Metabolics (Acre Books ‘23)
Mettlework (Acre Books ‘24)