Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
Senadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social ❤️✊🏽 Chicana organizer-turned-Senadora running for U.S. Senate. Current state Senator for District 34.
https://linktr.ee/senadorajulie
Sleeping with Celebrities @sleepwithcelebs.bsky.social Host @JohnMoe.bsky.social speaks with remarkable guests about unremarkable topics. These are conversations to help you fall asleep, or just relax.
https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/sleeping-with-celebrities/
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
amylynnrj @amylynnrj.bsky.social Giant emotional marshmallow. Nerd. Animal lover. Rower. Midwestern expat in the SF Bay area. She/her/hers
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/
Dana Meyers @heynowdana.com I am so proud of you. We will be OK.
Host of the The Morning Show and
The Punkyard on @indie1023.bsky.social.
The Punk Rock Queen of Denver.
She/her.
✨🏳️⚧️✨
Links: https://linktr.ee/heynowdana
John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social Writer, poet, librarian, unhallowed revenant.
Comments mine, not my employer’s.
Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social Poetry and Craft for the Riff-Raff. System-shattering poetry & essay experiments www.publicschoolpoetry.com
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
David Ward @davidww.bsky.social poems, fossils, videogames
editor @ publicschoolpoetry.com
lecturer @ university of michigan
Al Iverson @aliversonchicago.bsky.social Husband to @kateharding.bsky.social. Wrangling email for decades. Spam is bad. Deliverability is good. I blog about both: spamresource.com
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!!
Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social Podcast editor and sound designer for Gutter, Hey Riddle Riddle, Worlds Beyond Number patreon (Kids Campaign, County Affair), NeoScum, and more! / ☕ http://ko-fi.com/casey / 🎮 twitch.tv/caseyponey /📺 youtube.com/yourfourthcousin / 👋🏼 Leftist (he/him)
Adal Rifai @adalrifai.bsky.social 
Joan Kwon Glass @joankwonglass.bsky.social Author of 🌼DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS🌼 & 🌒 NIGHT SWIM 🌊 Poet/Editor/Teacher/SWWIM Writer-in-Residence/Smithie/Troublemaker/Friend of Jimmy K 🔷
Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social I love books
Jill Michelle @jillpoppyflower.bsky.social What I love: kids, pups, poetry, Star Wars & Trek, football—both kinds—bunnies, roller coasters, playing ukulele, singing, drawing, teaching.
Books: Underwater (Riot in Your Throat), Shuffle Play (Bottlecap Press)
www.byjillmichelle.com
Asche Helling @asheseverywhere.bsky.social Present + Curious All-weather Comrade
Lisa M. O'Neill @lisaoneill.bsky.social Writer | Storyteller | Editor | Native New Orleanian | words:
@theguardian @washingtonpost @bitchmedia @byshondaland
she/her
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Kelley Zinge @kchanteusez.bsky.social ...But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WB Yeats
Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com Creating extraordinary worlds and inviting you down the rabbit hole. Making games since 1995. #CONTROLResonant coming September 24th 2026. Pre-order now! Header by @valentinapaz.com
Now working on Control RESONANT and Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.
Sam Lake @samlakewrites.bsky.social Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
Shilo Niziolek @wild-doings.bsky.social Author of Fever, Little Deaths, Pigeon House & atrophy | Editor-in-Chief of Scavengers | Writing Instructor | Chronically ill | 💙💖💜
Jess Phoenix 🌋 @volcanojess.com That volcanologist you saw on TV. Executive Chair of The Comedy Resistance. Ran for Congress, wrote MS. ADVENTURE, did the world's longest horse race. Podcasts, mohawks, punk rock, WFR, super into protecting democracy.
KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social Writer • Syracuse MFA '24 • NYU PhD '29-'30.
BAD ANIMAL, Riot in Your Throat Press, 2023 • SMALL GEOMETRIES, Ethel, 2023
Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social "the Pepsi of Austrian writing." do not be weird at me online. buy bumper stickers, from me, at https://mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/
Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
Tari Follett @tarirocks.bsky.social Musician with a bad back. She/her. Muskegon, MI. Solidarity Forever. Witchy, nerdy, and probably stoned.
Sarah Seybold @sarahseybold.bsky.social Poems appearing or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, SWWIM, Thimble, and elsewhere.
Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social A biannual magazine featuring 10 poems by 10 poets printed on 10 postcards with original art for each poem. Think of us as broadside-minis. EIC: @mrwojorising.bsky.social
www.postcardlit.com
Jeremy D. Nichols @jeremydnichols.bsky.social Peer Recovery Specialist, CRSS, Cat Dad, Erstwhile Actor, Proud Hot Dog University alum, Blogger, Chicagoan, Texpat. I want to see a tree kangaroo before I die.
Michael Jones @michaelajones.bsky.social Pop culture, public relations, writer, podcaster, LGBTQ+ rights, pugs and occasional puns and jokes. Co-host of the Pop Trash Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-trash-podcast/id1600998705
@bontrodemus.bsky.social @bontrodemus.bsky.social 
Travis Ezell @travisezell.bsky.social Worder and weirder of language. 
Anne Herzog @afzog.bsky.social 
Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
Dr. Mareike Spychala @spychalam.bsky.social "I'm a Doctor of Philosopy, Jim, not medicine, dammit."
Nerd. Feminist. I write about women at war, 19th-century Gothic poetry, and sometimes SFF (especially #StarTrek).
She/her
KC @ixia.bsky.social A lot of things.
They/he
Jack Baur @kcorstel99.bsky.social Do not obey in advance.
PDX, Librarian, Dad, Horror Fan. He/him.
Trans rights are human rights, period.
Carolina Hotchandani @chotchandani.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Author of THE BOOK EATERS (Perugia Press, 2023).
Z Gervais @jzgervais.bsky.social Pollinator proletariat, writer, coach, witch, data analyst. (Genderqueer bisexual femme. She/They) 
Liv Coleman @livcolemanfl.bsky.social Liv Coleman is community advocate, democracy enthusiast, educator from a family of educators. Former Florida State House Candidate in Manatee/Sarasota. www.livcoleman.com
In my academic life, I teach political science, with a focus on Japan/East Asia.
@charlie-b79.bsky.social @charlie-b79.bsky.social 
skye @skyegebhart.bsky.social she/her. santa fe county, nm. loves animals & people.- C @chellman.bsky.social @chellman.bsky.social
Amber Adams @amberadamspoet.bsky.social Poet. Becoming Ribbons (Unicorn Press). 2025 NEA Fellow.
Linda Hess @timeflieslike.bsky.social (she/her) American Studies. Based at U of Augsburg. Researches Environmental Comedy. Also active in aging studies and queer studies. Enjoys slowly improving skills in bouldering, chess, ping-pong, and Norwegian
Rock Tom @rocktomrides.bsky.social Professional rock licker. Amateur baker. OKC. Ionescu stan. The only Petroleum guy on Bluesky? Go Thunder, Go Ducks.
Melissa Maday @melissamaday.bsky.social Editor by day, novelist at night. Smithie, expat, wife, book nerd, Anglophile, Midwesterner, recovering academic, cat mom. Ask me about Sylvia Plath.
Claire S. @readerpants.bsky.social Have you high-fived your neighborhood butchy youth services librarian today? PNW, she/her.
Corvin “V” Greene, PhD @jewishpoet.bsky.social Jewish poet; adjunct literature professor; crafter. Queer, trans, disabled Iowan. AuDHD. Animal lover. You probably know me by another name.
https://ko-fi.com/corvingreene
Rachel Tobie @racheltobie.bsky.social Reader of YA, MG & Romance. Probably cuddling a small dog or staring at a bird in a tree. Definitely wearing a respirator. Pacific Northwest. She/her.
Martine @mintymom.bsky.social 
ShiteWitch @mapes5.bsky.social Unaffiliated hedge person
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com You want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
finnian sawyer @finstergrrrl.bsky.social colorado. poet. tech writer. Shimmer badger. gamer. SKYWARN wx spotter. paleoanthropology nerd. MeU, Stay, Atiny, ARMY, EVOL.
toastie. LLama. STWSB. they/them. 🏳️🌈😷🍉
Amy Dobrowolsky @spuriosa.bsky.social Non-rigorous Polymathemetry | Imprecise paraphrasing | V. Serious Ham Radio | Barbaric DIY | Questionable Wrenching | Impeccable Politics | GenX DGAF | Chaotic Queer | suspected Chaotic Neutral
Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social A journal by and for teachers.
We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world.
Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
Amy Long @amylorrainelong.bsky.social Author (Codependence: Essays). Dog whisperer. Runs Taylor Swift as Books. 
The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social All the tweets I love, a few I hate. A few skeets too! Posted individually this time instead of threaded
Posting in large batches, pls address complaints to dennisbhooper
Alt text added but reply w/ additional description as you see fit. Also bluesky @‘s
@jennyirish.bsky.social @jennyirish.bsky.social 
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy
TikTok: @AndyRichterTikTok
Podcast: The Three Questions
Call In Show on Sirius XM
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Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kaicoggin.bsky.social Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Teaching Artist, Master Naturalist, Gay Mama Bear, Host of Wednesday Night Poetry. Editor at SWWIM, TERRAIN.ORG, and RISE UP REVIEW. www.kaicoggin.com
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
📚💙
Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out Sep. 9 @judedoyle.bsky.social Technically Eisner-winning, definitely GLAAD Award-nominated comic book writer, journalist, and Insufferable Newsletter Man.
All of DEAD TEENAGERS out now from Oni. Paperback is out October 6.
CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #2 is out now. Issue #2 hits 9/9.
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
📚 My new book 'Abortion' is out now prh.com/abortion
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social Senior correspondent at New York magazine. Author of the recent book UNBEARABLE: FIVE WOMEN AND THE PERILS OF PREGNANCY IN AMERICA (2025). Two kids and not a night of decent sleep since 2020. Here for that old magic time suck.
The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social Literary magazine est. 1979, reimagined 2021.
Writing, translation, and art on the environment.
https://thedodgemag.com/
General submissions in nonfiction, translation, and visual art OPEN NOW!
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
Jack Baur @kcorstel.bsky.social “I’m a Vonnegut-punch to your Atlas Shrug.”
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
E. Kristin Anderson @ekristinanderson.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Ferrix. Maker of nerd goodies Auntie. Author of 9 chapbooks of poetry. On staff @cottonxenomorph. she/her
shop: yourweirdauntshop.etsy.com
use code BSKY15 for 15% off select items!
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
Millions of Dead Chris @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Jessica Poli @jessicapoli.bsky.social Poet, Author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), and Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner
www.jessicapoli.com
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
Beth Gilstrap (she/her) @bettysueblue.bsky.social Author of 2 story collections & There Is News Along The Ohio River, a hybrid/flash CNF collection out now from River River Books. Editor. Copywriter. Anti-fascist. EIC/Pub Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & neurospiciness.
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social writer / teacher / dad / goblin
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social Humorist and author from the Midwest. Seen in NYTimes, McSweeneys, Elle,WaPo and other places. writing center person. Here for the jokes and books. rachelmansmckenny.com
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social Writer
Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf…
Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
E.B. Schnepp @ebschnepp.bsky.social Poet, cryptid currently residing in Chicago, featured in Poetry Daily, work in Iron Horse, Nat. Brute, South Dakota Review, and more.
ebschnepp@weebly.com
Chapbook: Blueberries Stain Like Blood
Available from Bottlecap Press Features