dirt @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
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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
Raoul Fernandes @raoulfernandes.bsky.social Poet, dad, and library guy | (he/him) | Wrote a book called Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions) | Poetry editor for EVENT Magazine | lives on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ (Vancouver) raoulfernandes.com
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Shaun Barr @shaunbarr.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gardener, Cumbria, UK. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2025. The Manchester Review, Dream Catcher, The Frogmore Papers, The Madrid Review, Orbis.
shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
Joseph Kidney @josephkidney.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Lecturer @Stanford. Bay Area & Vancouver. Early Modern Drama / Renaissance & Reformation / Poetry book DEVOTIONAL FORENSICS (icehouse) March 2025
https://gooselane.com/products/devotional-forensics
Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social Bright star! Would I were…
Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social Disabled writer, dreamer, dog mom. Space enthusiast. Lover of chocolate and stories, student of wonder and grief. New novel, WILD LIFE, out now.
Might say things here…might not. To be continued!
amandaleduc.com
Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
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.
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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social Borderline Luddite. Sometimes writes.
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social Poet | Prof | Author: Wound Archive (2026); Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies
https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/
https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/wound-archive
Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
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
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social English professor researching early modern women's writing, history of medicine, food, recipes, British Atlantic world, and whatever else .... 
@spjonesy.bsky.social @spjonesy.bsky.social Father, husband, lawyer, citizen
Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social Writer of poems and essays. Taker of photographs.
IN A RIPTIDE is out now! Published by Brick Books.
ronnabloom.com
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
Kristina Faust @kristinafaust.bsky.social poet | non-profitess | friend
umichwriters alum
Jen @jspacewoman.bsky.social Portland, Oregon
jazz and avant garde | the beauty of the mundane
mom of two boys | cat woman | enthusiast
I love finding records and listening to them 🖤
https://bandcamp.com/lunaonthegrass
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
Rachel Nelson @rachelhnelson.bsky.social Poet, scientific copy editor, Michigander, she/her
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Adam Benjamin (He/Him) @shuttermonster.bsky.social Somewhere between a Jack of all Trades and a well paid Village Idiot. Tech geek by day. Photographer, Improviser, Musician, and general goofball by hobby.
Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social Writer, essayist, lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Camel, Riddle Fence, Antigonish Review, Globe & Mail. Site: kevinmacdonell.com
Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social We publish the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed. Representation US @UChicagoPress Australia @WileyGlobal
www.ucdpress.ie
https://linktr.ee/ucdpress
Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social Poemsong person! Librarian! Singing C2s in NYC
DEAR DEAR from @triohousepress.org in July 2026. Preorder: https://shorturl.at/KGJ2e
Chap FEEDBACK HARMONIES out from Seven Kitchens Press
reubengelleynewman.com
Susan Haldane @shaldane.bsky.social Poet. Farmer. Etc. “Hard Bargain Road” out now with Gaspereau Press. 🇨🇦
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
Paul Maddern @pmaddern.bsky.social Kelpdings, The Beachcomber's Report, Pilgrimage, & The Tipping Line (all w/ Templar Poetry). Ed. Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press). www.the-river-mill.co.uk
Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Little Griefs out now. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
https://www.sheribenning.com/
Domenica Martinello @domenicahope.bsky.social Writer, loud talker, perky terror | Poetry: GOOD WANT (Coach House Books, 2024) ❤️🔥 + ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SIRENS (2019) 🌊
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social ❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖
#PoetryAotearoa
❖ Forgotten Press ❖
https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets
Stephen R. Smith @stephensmith.bsky.social Programmer & Writer. Owner @ http://Alignsoft.com. Writer & Curator @ http://365tomorrows.com; a new SciFi flash fiction story daily. Coffee & solar powered. He/Him
* I also love sarcasm
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).
Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social Writer, etc.
Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social Poet (Metadata from a Changing Climate, Gaspereau Press, 2025). Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and SCL. Publisher of poetry chapbooks at Emergency Flash Mob Press. Bibliographer. Fredericton, NB.
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social from the author of POETRY IS QUEER, SHE, + THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF
FAIRY (OUT NOW) @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-kirby/
kirbyfairy.ca
itsakirby.bandcamp.com
substack.com/@itsakirby
Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social Plays, poems, prose http://danobrien.org
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada
https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives.
Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance.
📍NE England |🤸♀️ she/her | MDANT 🏅| 🔗https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
@henricole.bsky.social @henricole.bsky.social 
emerpondfeeney @emerpondfeeney.bsky.social poet, librarian, mountain woman
"Let birds, let birds." - Linda Gregg
Sean M. Conrey @smconrey.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Musician
Most recent book available at:
https://saintjulianpress.com/sean-m-conrey-ndash-poet.html
Music streaming at:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3fQ3Mix7ymoeM7QkTETbbE?si=bYf8qCjeSui712eeMgVUCA
Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social I edit for http://thewalrus.ca. Most recent book is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 http://bit.ly/3hZXOED
Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social Poet (day job). Songwriter (other day job). Artistic Director of the Words Aloud Poetry Series (other other day job). Marketing and Publications Coordinator of Kegedonce Press (other other other day job). rsitoski.com
EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social Poet, editor, translator. He/him. johnwallbarger.com
Resurrection Pie (LSU Press, 2026)
Contract editor, Frontenac House
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Robyn Schindeldecker @flyrobynfly.bsky.social I still don't know what I want to be when I give up.
Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
www.carolinebird.co.uk
P.W. Bridgman, Writer @pwbwriter1.bsky.social Vancouver writer of poetry, fiction, literary criticism & academic articles about the law. Lover of all things Italian & Irish. Most recent of five titles: The World You Now Own (2024); Idiolect (2021); & The Four-Faced Liar (2021).
www.pwbridgman.ca
@gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social 
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social Author of Thaw (@ugapress National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD/Assistant Lecturer @ualberta Postdoctoral Fellow @SSHRC Poetry editor @sweetliterary
Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. PhD Candidate. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
Amanda Benjamin @amandajbenjamin.bsky.social Adult Education, Swim Mom, living on unceded traditional Wolastoqey land
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
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
John Elizabeth Stintzi @jestintzi.bsky.social Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
linktr.ee/jestintzi
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
https://kathyfagan.com
🏳️🌈 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022).
PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here.
jobratten.co.uk
Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social Record collector, jazz student, primary care provider. Think I am funnier than I am.
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
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Christian Gullette @christiangullette.bsky.social Poet and author of COACHELLA ELEGY
from Trio House Press
“Cool, elegantly controlled poems”
-The Washington Post
Buy a copy here:
https://linktr.ee/christiangullette
www.christiangullette.com