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
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
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Karen Schubert @karen-youngstown.bsky.social Poet, author of "The Compost Reader" (Accents), "I Left My Wings on a Chair" (Kent State University Press), winner of Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize
Founding Director Lit Youngstown LitYoungstown.org
Founding Chair LOOP Youngstown LOOPYoungstown.org
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Dana Graef @danagraef.bsky.social Environmental anthropologist & poet. Interests in food, agriculture, conservation, climate, energy, & the arts.
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
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
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social Author, poet, philosopher. Courter, creator and curator of wonder. I write for people who intuit that there is more to reality than meets the eye. JackPrestonKing.com
Joy K: @joykazzz.bsky.social writes, teaches, edits. paris review, american poetry review, boston review, copper nickel, best american poetry. licorice. tennis.
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy offers an inspiring journey through the life and literature of one of Ireland's greatest literary voices.
https://seamusheaneyhome.com/upcoming-events/
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Christine Swint @christinens.bsky.social
Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor.
http://balancedonedge.blog
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Dr. Andy Jones @andyojones.bsky.social A poet, ed-tech wonk, author, essayist, quizmaster, and academic director at UC Davis, Dr. Andy professes, hosts a poetry and technology radio show and poetry readings. He works to promote other authors, some of them former students. Also, Andy loves Kate.
Sherrell Wigal @sherrellpoet.bsky.social I am a writer of poetry and enjoy watercolor and journal making.
Nick Bruno @calabrian.bsky.social Poet, artist and sociologist. Not necessarily in that order. Enjoys, classic film noir, science fiction and classic rock and roll. My poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review; Eclectica and Stirring amongst others.
Dakota Jeane 🦋 @dakotajeane.bsky.social Poet, model, aspiring actress 😊.
Michael Dechane @michaeldechane.bsky.social Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing).
#poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
Chelsea McClellan @chelseamcclellan.bsky.social Poetry
Cam McGlynn @pinkpossumclub.bsky.social Am I a poet dreaming that I'm a possum? Or a possum dreaming about eating all your bird seed?
Justin Rigamonti @jrigamonti.bsky.social Poet, Editor & Program Coordinator for the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency
Poetry Coordinator for chatterpdx.org
www.jrigamonti.com
bsky.app/profile/cmwritershouse.bsky.social
The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social The Loft, a nonprofit arts org, advances the artistic development of writers, fosters a thriving literary community, and inspires a passion for literature.
Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social She/Her | Poet | 🏳️🌈 | ✊️
🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
🔞
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
Jane Morton @thatjanemorton.bsky.social Poet | Alabama | ♈️
Shedding Season (2025) & Snake Lore (2024) from Black Lawrence Press
David Romanda @romandapoetry.bsky.social Author of three books, including “Your Lover Stabbed in the Streets” (Frontenac House, 2025). https://www.romandapoetry.com
Robbin Farr @rfarr.bsky.social Poet, writer of short forms. Editor of River Heron Review. General word nerd. 
Teri V @terivela.bsky.social She/her. Poet, mother, queer, witch, cactus. Latina. Assistant poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. Warren Wilson MFA alum. 🍉🍉🍉
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
Kari Gunter-Seymour @karigunterseymour.bsky.social Ohio Poet Laureate, 9th Generation Appalachian, Photographer, Author of DIRT SONGS and ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, featured in World Literature Today and American Book Review
Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social Writer in Delaware. Chapbook: POEMS TO STAGE DIVE TO (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: EVERY LIVING DAY (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️🌈
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Anthony Borruso @introspectiveant.bsky.social Composition Professor and Author of the poetry collection Splice
Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California 💐 music and poetry on Kill Rock Stars, Bottlecap, Broken Sleep, Gasher, and others. PhD from Bangor University in North Wales. 🫖
calebnicholsis.gay
Jacob JB @jajobi.bsky.social Queer first, him second || Neither MFA nor NYC || Dissenting Missourian || Cellular carbon &c. || Seeking sangha || Let’s do a litmag
Works: https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/jacob.j.billingsley
Andrew McSorley @mchockey.bsky.social Educator, poet. Author of What Spirits Return (Kelsay Books, 2019). Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar at MS DH Hub. PhD in English and Creative Writing from University of Southern Mississippi.
Marcus Wilson @marcusbwilson.bsky.social Poet | Pathfinder
www.marcusbwilson.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.
FreedyBee @freedybee.bsky.social Actor, poet, mum. Gàidhlig, BSL learner, sea chanties.
Vera Hadzic @hadzicvera.bsky.social Writes poetry & fiction / MA Queen's University 2025 / BA uOttawa 2024 / she/her
Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social Poet and children's author. My books include The Big Day, Wain and Once I Carried Three Crows.
Also a creative writing teacher, story teller, knitter, mum of two and a carer for my disabled son.
Proud to be represented by Children's Books North Agency.
Alolika Dutta @alolikadutt.bsky.social Poet and photographer based in Mumbai.
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Blue Summer Poetry @seandevon.bsky.social Poet hoping to find a community of other poets and writers. I’ll probably repost a bunch of blue stuff.
David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
Avery Lark ✨ @thebisylarke.bsky.social Poet / boyish entity / devoted dabbler in many a craft / self-appointed jester to my own court / lover of learning / cat owner & appreciator / enjoyer of art and stories and silliness / chronic convalescent (they/he/she)
Michele McDannold @oneldammit.bsky.social Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press
Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social 🪶 Poet, teacher, 🏳️⚧️writer in exile
📖 Consider the Rooster, finalist for the NBCC + CLMP Firecracker Awards
🌿 Language still belongs to me
oliverbaezbendorf.com
Sarah Rosenthal @weagreeonthesun.bsky.social Poet, essayist, filmmaker
Latest book: One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (Punctum Books; collaboration with Valerie Witte)
Latest film: Lizard Song
sarahrosenthal.net
Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
• Neurodivergent •
Queer Nonbinary & Trans Woman
Artist Site: Roseknapp.weebly.com
Poetry Collections: Lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social Executive Director of the Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social
Literaryartsfund.org
@claressinka.bsky.social @claressinka.bsky.social Poet, writer, former gallerist. London blood, L.A.🫀
claressinka.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.
Nick Martino @nick-martino.bsky.social Poet & teacher from Milwaukee
SCRAP BOOK (Alice James Books, 2026)
Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Hannah Ensor @hensor.bsky.social poet. they/them. https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-108-ensor 
Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social SF. Poet @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Faculty @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. 💜
Ruby Hansen Murray @osagewriter.bsky.social "On East Sunny Sands" coming from Red Bird chapbooks 2027. Award-winning columnist Osage News. Essays Notable in Best American Essay 2025, winner Iowa Review and Montana prizes. MacDowell, Indigenous Native Poets, Hedgebrook, Tin House Debut40+ fellow.
David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social poet, editor, writer, CCNY MFA teacher, culture worker. He/him
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Kerrin McCadden @kerrin-mccadden.bsky.social 
Richard Siken @richard-siken.bsky.social 
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Rita Banerjee @ritabanerjee.bsky.social Rita Banerjee is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of Disobedient Futures, CREDO, Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night.
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Jill K. @jkmvca.bsky.social poet/mother/lover of numbers/outsider looking in/ #resist
#Denali #GulfofMexico
https://www.theswannanoareview.com/issue3/jillklein/fitted-sheets
Caitlin Cowan @caitlincowan.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Tragic Optimist | Author of SOLITARY (YesYes Books, 2027) & HAPPY EVERYTHING (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
LM Myers 🌻🌻🌻 @lenimo.bsky.social Author of Regards to Balthus (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023) and Afterimages (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2026).
Michael Mercurio @poetmercurio.bsky.social Poet. Founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, which happens monthly on Zoom. Also writes A Slight Case of Overthinking at https://damncurious.substack.com/
Find out more at https://www.poetmercurio.com
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social Poet, PhD, Editor @annulet.bsky.social, a literary journal and soon a small press // Managing Editor of The Iowa Review // Author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) // Takes are mine, all mine
Rebecca Manery @reginacalices.bsky.social Poet, writer, bibliophile. MFA, Ph.D. Michigander by birth, Chicagoan at heart.
I like black coffee and blue waves.
Adrian Blevins @adrianpoems.bsky.social Oligarchy-abhorring southern poet in the earthly atmosphere of northern New England. Author of Status Pending, Appalachians Run Amok, Live from the Homesick Jamboree, and other books.
Janine Joseph @j9joseph.bsky.social 🇵🇭 & 🇺🇸| poet, librettist, prof | Co-organizer: Undocupoets | 📚: Decade of the Brain / Driving Without a License / Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora | 🐶♏️ | fka undocumented
Jean Kiernan Detjen @jeankiernan.bsky.social Poet, writer & journalist 🌿 Wisconsin-based, Midwest-rooted. Poetry and essays shaped by close attention to landscape and the living world we belong to. www.jeankiernandetjen.com
Jenny Johnson @infullvelvet.bsky.social Poet and essayist.
www.jennyjohnsonpoet.com
In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017)
Views expressed are my own.
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Corey 🌈🦊🐦⬛🌻 @coreypoetry.bsky.social 37. Poet & writer. Queer. They/She
Chapbook - https://bottlecap.press/products/doomcs
ROBOTĂ - https://stanislavandthelion.bandcamp.com/
"We Were Seeds" anthology @ querenciapress.com
Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social Switch hitting witch. Cubs poet. Books at TAMU Press & Sundress Publications. Writing: Ecotone Magazine, Blackbird, Fansided. Former Poetry Ed at River Styx. George Mason MFA.
Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social poet | writer | artist: [Grace]iple.
Neuro[con]vergent. Di[ff]abled. A[r]tivist. [Nap]vocate for the Res[t]istance. Dog mom. Words at Pleiades, The Rumpus, Gumbo Bottoms & other wilding, miraculous meadows.
mary buchinger @mebuchinger.bsky.social I read, write, & teach
Recent books: Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award), The Book of Shores (2024), and Virology (2022, Lily Poetry Review Books), einfühlung/in feeling (Main Street Rag)
Brandel France de Bravo @brandelfrance.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training. Newest book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Sherri Martin @livewonderstruck.bsky.social Poet. Finding light in unexpected places — especially dark ones. Southern NJ.
@bethoastwilliams.bsky.social @bethoastwilliams.bsky.social Poet, Board Member at The Muse Writers Center
Amanda Valerie Judd @avjudd.bsky.social poet, novelist, screenwriter, Godmother x2, cradle-robber, amateur yogi, meow mom x2
Joseph Radke @josephradke.com Re-emerging poet. None of my e's are silent!
Poems in Copper Nickel, Bellevue Literary Review, Boulevard & Southeast Review (forthcoming)
📖 my work ⤵
www.josephradke.com
Dana.Ranga @danaranga.bsky.social I'm a poet / Ich bin ein Dichter
#poetrycommunity
#lyrik
Poems:
"Cosmos!", "Wasserbuch", "Hauthaus", "Stop", "Genesis 51-52"
http://www.danaranga.com
https://www.suhrkamp.de
https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de
KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
A A Allen @a-a-allen.bsky.social Poet, writer, researcher, educator
Gale Batchelder @dody02138.bsky.social Poet. Find me in Tupelo Quarterly, Colorado Review, Pangyrus. Book— Chalk Song, Lily Poetry Review Books. Hit me up for help with submissions.
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson @eotwrites.bsky.social One of those poets.
Senior editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
https://linktr.ee/EOTwrites
Quincy Scott Jones @qsjones.myatproto.social poetry, comics,
author of two books,
probably not the Quincy Jones you're thinking of.
quincyscottjones.com
Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social poet laureate of the gay nude beach.
Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). my pronouns are secret. Seattle. allysonang.com