Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Destiny ✨ @destinysdreamlands.bsky.social A 33 yr old fat enby femme (they/them) haunting Philadelphia and howling at the moon. Poet, artist, activist.
Jamie @itsthejam.myatproto.social Middle school US history teacher, lover of public schools, proud union member, expert in Real Housewives and the extended 90 Day Universe and also I do like some other stuff I just don’t talk about it as much.
Christeene Alcosiba @christeene.bsky.social Poems, tech, liminal spaces, and good trouble.
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
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
HaiCole @haicole.bsky.social beatnik / writer of haiku / player of pinball / taker of photos / selector of songs / fan of the cubs / promoter of peace
photog - salvosalvosalvo.com
dj / voice acting - mixcloud.com/FlipBrickleby
dm's open for a bit. i'll try it. be nice.
Farah @farahauthor.bsky.social ✍🏼 poetry including haiku tanka haibun
award-winning
Pushcart Prize nom
Touchstone Award shortlist (haiku) winner (haibun)
UK author: Deerleap Hollow Series🦌🩸📚
🖤horror movies nature art gardening 🌱
PhD
🇵🇸Freedom for all🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/farahauthor
Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social Tanka/Haiku/Senryū/Free verse
Touchstone Award '24 (Haibun), Marlene Mountain Award '23 (2.) and '26 (HM)
She has a Lego mini figure set of her inner demons & collects heart-shaped stones that she throws into water, then waits.
https://pi-and-anne.com/
Cranky Old Man 🏴 🇪🇦 @crankyoldman.bsky.social I can write cursive, tell the time on a clock with hands, and balance a checkbook! I rode a bike with no helmet, played outside all day, and ran around barefoot. I received all of my childhood vaccines, too! Yet, here I am. No DMs, please!
Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Kalvin M Madsen @kalvinmadsen.bsky.social Fiction writer, journalist, and editor in chief of Low Hanging Fruit Magazine
Bob Varettoni @bvar.bsky.social Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar
Kalmato.Expression @kalmatoexpression.bsky.social An expressionist, who has written much verse. Kalmatoboutique.com for books and audiobooks
Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich, Alien Buddha. Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Workshop 13th Sept: https://poetryschool.com/courses/microchimerism-loss-connection-writing-absence-attachment-in-parenthood/
Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer. She/her.
Abigail George @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social Instagram https://share.google/3KbCEZug8OP9glUfG
Goodreads https://share.google/mqXkw7zrRJxpzUAk1
Poet.
David Moolten @davidmoolten.bsky.social Writer at large in Philadelphia... Poems in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares. Winner Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (NEUP), T.S. Eliot Prize (U.S. version, TSUP).
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social Est. in 2022, by American poet Samantha Terrell, SHINE is an international poetry series featuring both emerging & established poets. Learn more at http://www.SHINEPoetry.com.
Kelly White Arnold @karnoldteaches.bsky.social Wife, mom, writer, teacher, lover of yoga. 
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Pamela Montgomery @pmmartiste.bsky.social Word weaver & hope seeker. Commingling my words with my paintbrushes. Join me in leaving a trail of beauty one messy fingerprint at a time. ✒️🎨🌈💕🦋
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.
Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social Writer of flash, micro, prose poetry. Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net. Copy Editor. Baseball fan. She/her.
https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com
Doug B @flip89db.bsky.social #poet ND✨haiku
IG_flippoetry
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘶
𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘶 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘵
𝘗𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦…
he/him
Touchstone nominee
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
Tyler Monson @tylerlazer.bsky.social He/Him / Literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. / PhD in American Literature / dog (Violet) and cat (Poppy) dad / Open to queries! 📚
https://www.sll.com/our-team
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Ellie Marie Johnson 🌸 @elliemariejohnson.bsky.social #poetry #pnw #poems
I write many forms of poetry, and I also love design, illustration, and the outdoors. I enjoy sharing my work and that of other poets with you. 🌸
elliemariejohnson.kit.com
Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social Metaphysical poetry
www.greachan.com
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Michael Aaron Harrington | Cinnatus @cinnatus.bsky.social Reader. Scribbles a little, questions authority...hangs with the dogs and family
✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social 🏳️🌈 Writing queer neo-noir fiction
💻 All the links at winterandwords.social
📚 Read at patreon.com/winterandwords
🚫 No AI anywhere
Sarvin Parviz @sarprvz.bsky.social Award-winning multigenre & genre-bender writer/interdisciplinary Artist (she/her)
Semifinalist in European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)
Unofficial Singer/Official Collaborator
sarvinparviz.com
#writingcommunity
K.G. Lewis @kglewis.bsky.social A #writer of strange stories for peculiar people. Featured on the #Nosleep Podcast. #Horror collections, Through the Mole Hole, One Eye Open, Writer's Block, Head Games, Flotsam and Jetsam, Lacerations, and The Forgetting Room published by Velox Books.
Rachel Nel @redsaid1.bsky.social South African inventor of the limesick (an ill-composed limerick) and writer of tiny tales of exactly 140-characters long for #vss365. Every doggo is a friend.
Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗
https://ko-fi.com/poetrywithhart
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
Genevieve Boiko @genboiko.bsky.social My passion for art, poetic writing, vintage, fashion, and current trends. Continue to learn, grow, and reach beyond the horizon.
Tanja @joypops.bsky.social It is in the most surreal situations that a person feels the most present, the closest to reality. — Ling Ma
David McMullin @davidmcmullin.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FREE TO BE FABULOUS, ROCK 'N' ROLL BABY
Lauri Meyers @laurimeyers.bsky.social Kidlit Author. Word juggler. Awkwardly funny. Embraces weird. #50PreciousWords Winner #KidsChoice Winner #PBParty 2023 HM #PBChat Mentorship 2021 #Madness!Poetry #SCBWI #12x12
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
Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social Poetess, musician, snaps photography. Also posts a lot of random music because music is life :)
All posts by myself except REposts.
No starter packs. I block political profiles.
JM Reinbold @jmreinbold.bsky.social Best-selling, award-winning author.
Mystery Writers of America / SinC
Sherlockian / Haikuist / Whovian
Author of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Black Pharaoh
@akabibi.bsky.social @akabibi.bsky.social 🎶 You won't break my soul...🎶
I used to teach the children.
Part of the 92%
I read a lot and write a little.
🩷💚 1908
@wonderingfree.bsky.social @wonderingfree.bsky.social Free thinking lover of nature, books and poetry. Scenes of the world through my lens. Curiosity and kindness always, musings. My friends call me G.
*posts can be found in media
Victor Kisob @victorkisob.bsky.social Awe-struck vision,
Blind to derision,
Panic lesions,
Mindful excision.
Poet, Author, Artist, Photographer, former UN Assistant Secretary-General
©️Victor Kisob [poetry, paintings & photos]
💘Beth C Greenberg✍️ Cupid's Fall series 📚 @bethcgreenberg.com Writer of cozy romantasy starring your favorite Greek gods and some humans who got in the way, 'a fun, sexy romp!'💘 Lover of 🧩puzzles, limericks, flash fiction, #vss365 & haiku ✍️ Passionate Reader 🩵📚
🔗 https://linktr.ee/bethcgreenbergauthor
Alexandra Williams @alexandrawilliams.bsky.social Traveling the world one story at a time. ⛵️🌍
Capturing life through the lens and pen. 🖊️📸
Join the journey and let’s explore the beauty of our planet together. 🗺️💫
See more on https://substack.com/@alexandrarwilliams
Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social Newfoundland, NL, Canada
🇨🇦 📚 🧚 🐈 🐈⬛ 🍰🥄🌲 🖼️ 🌼 🐌 👩🏻🌾 🐞
Sapphra | Erotic Poetry @sapphrapoetry.bsky.social woman. poet. storyteller. dreamer. raw, sensual poetry. where mood + desire collide. 18+
Full poems & stories on Substack ↓
linktr.ee/sapphrapoetry
Kevin Hogan➡️Inertia Satori @kevinhogan.bsky.social Poetry / Memoir / Essay / Storyteller
#NoAI
buymeacoffee.com/inertiasatori
"Beauty will save the world"
https://inertiasatori.com/
https://volume.com/wookplus/
https://www.youtube.com/@inertiasatori
Find me bio.site/KevinHogan
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Crow Shaw @crowshaw.bsky.social Philip Daniel Shaw; Impressed by squirrels, hares, corvids, gentle persons. Ex-radio. Liminal but present. Compassion is strength. Ice cream.
Alyssa @herbluebellheart.bsky.social The slow work of learning to love the world as it burns
⟡ documenting the joy I create to not lose hope 🫶🏻
⟡ obsessed with herbalism, poems, politics, praxis & spicy science. ☽☾ she/they
#collectiveliberation #BLM #ResistReduceReuse
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.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
BrendaLee @brendalee-on-sl.bsky.social Artist, animal lover, and intellectual. I'm an avid reader and movie watcher, fps gamer, long time Second Life resident, and an introvert with extrovert skills. Leader of few, friend of many, watcher of all.
See you soon!
Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social ocean horror | they | english in california | represented by Kate McKean
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Andi Leigh @andileighwrites.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, & visual artist.
💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜
EIC: @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
andileighwrites.com
R William Parmenter / Author / Poet @rwilliamparmenter.com Indie-author | Poet | Artist | Dad | Atheist | Humanist | I say ‘awesome’ a lot | he/him
; 💛🩵🩷💜💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://lnk.bio/rwilliamparmenter
Trista Mateer @tristamateer.bsky.social poet (derogatory)
into longing and yearning
I wrote some books
The Poetry Moth @thepoetrymoth.bsky.social Awarded Poet and Artist. Gothic, romantic, nature, confessional Poet. Favorites-Plath, Poe, Sam Hurley, Laurie Lee, Woolf, Keats, Yeats, and more. Find me at https://linktr.ee/trishaleighpoetry
🚫DMs
Lily Lawson @lifelovelily22.bsky.social Poet/writer/chocoholic/random human who lilyfies whatever she can.
Music, books, poetry, writing, interviews & prompts.
I've published 11 books! — see pinned.
Free books every Friday👇
https://linktr.ee/lilylawson22
Everybody needs some Lily in their life!
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
Hannah V Warren @hannahvwarren.bsky.social poet & translator / fulbright scholar / monster from MS / PhD & naturalist / slaughterhouse for old wives’ tales (2024) / kenyon review fellow ‘25-‘27
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social Poet, Co-Editor of @ballastjournal.bsky.social
www.jacobschepers.com
www.ballastjournal.com
@jacobschepers on the gram
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia 2025), Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013) | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her
tracepeterson.com
Margaret Ronda @rondameg.bsky.social poetry, ecology, dreamwork
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Aldon Nielsen @aldonlynn.bsky.social Poet, Scholar
Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
noah warren @nowarwarren.bsky.social poetry & c19. asst prof @ UVM. Destroyer (2016), The Complete Stories (2021). 
maryam ivette parhizkar @theviewtocome.bsky.social poet, scholar, not here
www.maryamparhizkar.com
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Joyelle McSweeney @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social Poet, critic, publisher 
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
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
Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395 
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks