summer farah @summ.bsky.social author of I COULD DIE TODAY & LIVE AGAIN (Game Over Books) + THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications) 💜| 🇵🇸 summerfarah.com
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and the host of Some Marvelous Experience, a podcast about friendship and art.
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social reader. writer. tutor. adjunct. cat person.
reader for ANMLY and Tinderbox Poetry Journal
linktree of my published poems: linktr.ee/jacqui.z
she/they
reposts =/= endorsements, views are my own
Black Warrior Review @blackwarriorreview.bsky.social We publish experimental fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, comics, and visual art.
Issue 52.1 out now!
Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read.
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
K.McC @karmcc.bsky.social Book lover. Night owl. Proud “cat lady.” (Dogs too!)
levinskyleo.bsky.social @levinskyleo.bsky.social Middle-aged man with an acoustic guitar.
https://levinskyleo.bandcamp.com/
Jeff Pearson @legoverleg.bsky.social Poet, educator, bipolar disorder/mental health advocate, MtG player, Ex-Mormon, member of AFL-CIO
CALL ME OUT FOR MISINFORMATION
https://poesyjeffpearson.com
Previous editor to Blood Orange Review, fugue and 5x5 Litmag
A commonplace book
Fuck Doug Wilson
@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social HS English teacher in Canada.
Samantha M. @samanthamwords.bsky.social 
R @reneryanlevesque.bsky.social Prob posting writing and maybe woodworking projects. Poet if you make me choose. Maybe I’ll post my dog if I feel like it.
Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social Writing instructor; poet; aspirational gardener.
I drink both coffee and tea. I wish I could travel more.
My chapbook World Without is available from Bottlecap Press!
For more information: https://tinyurl.com/66yxa3z6
Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social Poet, story-teller, addicted to regency romances & houseplants. Zinester. Author of the chapbook, Split Map. Co-director of the thenotebookscollective.com (@notebookscltv.bsky.social).
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Micah Mabey @micahbutonline.bsky.social midwest night terror
online video person
they/them
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Richard Siken @richard-siken.bsky.social 
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
The Epilogue @theepilogue.net Author interview show that delves deeper into the craft of writing.
https://theepilogue.net
Elaine Elizabeth Belz @eebelz.bsky.social Theologian, poet, Detroiter, churchgeek.
Asst Prof, Theology, etseminary.edu
Cathedral Choir; Docent; etc., detroitcathedral.org
Some of my writing:
https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts?author=61a8100919657473c2d902d1
https://beltmag.com/putting-down-roots
Version (9) Magazine @version9magazine.bsky.social A journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Submissions open.
ISSN 2818-4874
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Moss @mosslit.bsky.social A journal of the Pacific Northwest, established in 2014. Poetry, prose, and thought.
Bookish Bliss @agirlincyber.bsky.social Kind is sexy.
Bibliophile | Photography | Travelling
A girl in cybersecurity💻🖥️
Hey👋😊, You follow me and I'll definitely follow you back. Thanks for following, you are wonderful 😊.
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 
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
Ashland Poetry Press @ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.social Poetry Press, publishing books, broadsides, and other beautiful things, since 1969.
Find us at: ashlandpoetrypress.com
Director: Chuck Carlise
Broadside Contest opens Sept 1 : ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com
Zoë Fay-Stindt @zoefaystindt.bsky.social queer, land-based, bicontinental poet & essayist (france/US) / pushcart, BNP, BotN noms / work in Terrain, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore & elsewhere / Hellbender Gathering of Poets Fellow / resident at Santa Fe Art Institute / they/she
ike @ike.io I identify as curious. Obsessed with poetry, irises, boats. Dad, coder, ᏥᏣᎳᎩ.
Most of my posts are #POSSE from my #indieweb site: https://ike.io
Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social (Ey/They/She) // Poet & Prose Writer in Maine // Judas & Suicide // Refused a Second Date // What’s So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? // Feminine Morbidity (chap) // Feminine Morbidity (full; ‘28)
https://linktr.ee/mayawilliamspoet
Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd
linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social poet laureate of the void • proud dad of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, Ramen Zine Distro, FRUITCAKE • mica photo '18/ubalt cwpa '24 • they
📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)
visit me online @ natraum.com/links
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.
Melissa Ferrer Civil @melissaferrerand.bsky.social First Poet Laureate of KCMO.
Some soft resound.
Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
Jose Reyes @haringmakata.bsky.social 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 Author of Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018). Poems in @Memorious @ScoundrelTime @poetrynw @BennReview @slowdownshow
https://linktr.ee/haringmakata
Colin Pope @colinpope.bsky.social Poet-ish. Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books). Why I Didn't Go to Your Funeral (Tolsun). Asst Dir of CW at Northwestern. Editor at RHINO. Believer in ironic punishments.
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social Poet. Associate Artist ISGRJ. Editorial Assistant FENCE Magazine.
your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social Dusti RW Levy. Disabled. GenX. PanQueer. Likely a Quaker. Assoc. Ed. at BOUDIN, managing ed of BOUDIN chapbook contest, eic at delicate emissions. dramaturg, poet, educator, & playwright. PrinxDopamine late of Serotonin Jackalope/Marine Layer.
Allison @aldikanovic.bsky.social editor-in-chief @thebeacon.bsky.social. previously editing at @kansascity.com. midwest gal. tell me how the news can be more helpful — allison@thebeacon.media
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
salamandermag.org
Diane Bell @dianebell.bsky.social Finalist Craft Literary 2024 Flash Prose Prize; IWWG Write Forward Anthology; White Stag Publishing #BloodLore Anthology; and others.
Retired educator and nonprofit professional.
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
David Harrison Horton @unionherald.bsky.social Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Professor. Friend. Minnesotan. She/They. Poetry Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems, Water~Stone Review.
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
Carrie Gessner @carriegessner.bsky.social Writing books, rolling dice, celebrating physical media. (she/her)
www.carriegessner.com
https://linktr.ee/carriegessner
Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/southeast_review
Est. in 1979 as Sundog 🍊 Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art.
AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social Our avatar is the Vedic god of fire, our goal is literary combustion. A beacon for 50 years, shining brightly in print and online. bu.edu/agni
[Art for AGNI 103 by Danielle Mckinney]
Ashley Elizabeth | writer & educator @aetheblkpoet.bsky.social Poet, educator, foodie, based in Baltimore, MD.
Author of chaps you were supposed to be a friend (2020), black has every right to be angry (2023), red line (2024) & CHARM(ed) (2024) | full-length: A Family Thing (2024)
aetheblkpoet.com
Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social Retired English teacher. Book and music lover. Midwesterner, kind of (Army brat, IYKYK), with Appalachian roots. MFA, Sewanee School of Letters. Senior editorial assistant, Cincinnati Review.
The Pink Poetry Club @thepinkpoetryclub.bsky.social A smol queer Midwestern bluesky #poetry journal. No AI.
✨️EIC @kitikins.bsky.social (they/them)
✨️Editor & Reader: @stephanieteasley.bsky.social (she/her)
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🍉 BLM
SUBMIT: https://forms.gle/mXA7ubkhPJqmv37X6
ARCHIVE/INFO: https://linktr.ee/pinkpoetryclub
Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social Poet & Professor
Director, MFA in Creative Writing, Mississippi Univ. for Women
Author of Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite & A Writer’s Craft.
Studied at Knox College & Univ. of Texas at Austin
📖 my work ⤵
www.kendalldunkelberg.com
NickWilk @nickwilk.bsky.social Chicago. Musician, Songwriter, Customer solutions guy.
https://www.nickwilkmusic.com
Tricia Renee @theecatservant.bsky.social Unappreciated serial writer and blogger. Reader. Gamer. Queer: Poly and Bisexual. Black DC Native. Chronically ill. Gamer. She/Her. Books rock. Cat lover. Soap fan. In a queer platonic relationship.Episcopal. Avon Shop.
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
Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Ariana Benson // the Word Hashira ⚔️✍🏾 @arianab.bsky.social poet, essayist, animé fan, cozy gamer, sportsball enthusiast, tree hugger, multivariate nerd 🎯
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent👩🏾💻
my📚: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
Lynne Kemen @lynnekemen.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Interviewer, Bright Hill Press, The Blue Mountain Review, The Southern Collective Experience. Shoes for Lucy (SCE Press, 2023), More Than a Handful ( Woodland Arts Edition, 2021) Pushcart Prize nominee. NO DMs please.
https://lynnekemen.com/
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Lydialyle Gibson @lydialyle.bsky.social Writer at Harvard Magazine; alum of UChicago Mag and Chicago Journal (RIP). NC/Va --> Chicago --> Boston. Views mine, etc.
leaux @evangaylion.bsky.social one of at least four or five working bartenders on Bluesky. lapsed wrestling professional. 🏳️⚧️
let me tell you why I love your drink.
they/he, the gay she
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
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
Mickie Kennedy @mickiepoet.bsky.social Pushcart nominee. Gay poet. Baltimore. POETRY, Threepenny, TSR, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel. First book Worth Burning coming Feb. '26 Black Lawrence Press. https://mickiekennedy.com
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Michael Stubblefield @m.stubblefield.net writer, author hopeful, humanist
https://stubblefield.net
♡ family, reading, photography, nature, travel
New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY began life as Mississippi Review Online. We invite submissions the first two weeks of January, April, July and October, and publish in those same months. Read more at https://newworldwriting.net/
Merri Andrew @merriandrew.bsky.social Poet and speculative fiction writer, mother, women’s health worker, she/they
https://www.merriandrew.com
Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
🔗 Linktr.ee/margolapierre