Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com No one you need to worry about. Born at CO2 327ppm.
Visit me at https://xxyxxy.com
Jed Myers @medjyers.bsky.social Longtime Seattleite from Philadelphia, poet, musician, wetland-walker, lit mag editor, married to writer Alina Rios, and father of three grown creatives. Newest book of poems: Can't Be Far (MoonPath, 2026).
Heather Ihn Art @heatherihnart.com An over-sharing, animal-obsessed, California based painter (oils, gouache), budding ceramicist, and occasional game artist.
Www.heatherihnart.com
www.heatherihnartstore.com
Heatherihnart.substack.com
Diana Goetsch @nycpoet.bsky.social Writer, poet, teacher.
www.dianagoetsch.com
Priscilla Long @priscillalong.bsky.social I am a poet and writer of creative nonfictions, science, history, and memoir and a longtime independent teacher of writing.
Edward Nudelman @enudelman.bsky.social Poet. Scientist. Monk. 5 poetry books, 81 papers in upper tier cancer journals, 1 wife, one dog, two ducks, kids, grandies, 6 olive trees
Jef L Littlejohn @jefljohn.bsky.social Poet, Gardener & Animal Lover. An atheist by some measures, as I find my gods in nature. Blue-blooded liberal in red Oklahoma mourning the current demise of rights, the rule of law and, quite possibly, democracy.
No Chats/No Dms!
Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social The Biggest Little Press in LA 🌞
✦ Publishing 25-30 books annually
✦ Accepting submissions year-round
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Annette Makino @annettemakino.bsky.social Artist and haiku poet. Online gallery and shop at makinostudios.com
@diane1966.bsky.social @diane1966.bsky.social
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
https://kimberlygibsontran.wordpress.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
Jackie Craven @jackiecraven.bsky.social What if Hours Could Speak? — Jackie Craven reimagines time in a prize-winning poetry collection: WHISH from Press 53.
https://jackiecraven.com
https://facebook.com/writerjackiecraven
#poetry #poems #fiction #writing #painting #art
MaryKeatingPoet @marykeatingpoet.bsky.social Author of “Recalibrating Gravity.” Poet, lawyer, disability rights advocate, writer, wheelchair user, baby boomer, dog lover, thyroid cancer survivor, scuba diver, Connecticut resident, all rolled into one.❤️🥰😘
Nancy Miller Gomez (poet) @nancyland.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Parent. Soup witch. Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz, County, CA. Author of "Inconsolable Objects" (YesYes Books) and "Punishment" (Rattle). Visit me at www.nancymillergomez.com- M Mrmeyerhofer @mrmeyerhofer.bsky.social
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
Rosemary R. Royston @rosemary-royston.bsky.social Poet, artist, improv quilter.
https://www.stitchandstories.com/
Sue Fagalde Lick @suelick.bsky.social I'm a widowed, childless, left-handed, Catholic, Portuguese American writer-musician living on the Oregon Coast. Addicted to books, cookies, and tea.
Christine Gelineau @cmgelineau.bsky.social Latest book ALMANAC: A MURMURATION. Writer (poetry and creative nonfiction), breeder of Morgan horses. https://christinegelineau.com/
@georgefranklin.bsky.social @georgefranklin.bsky.social
T R Poulson @trpoulson.bsky.social University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan. Blue collar worker and writer of fiction and formal poetry (with some free verse mixed in). Ocean lover. Seeking a publisher for my first book, tentatively titled Birds Never Nest Here. www.trpoulson.com
David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social Multi media artist with HOPE to heal our earth.
Madeleine Butler @madbutler.bsky.social Co-Active coach, playwright.
Veronica Kornberg @vkornberg.bsky.social Poet. Habitat gardener. Author of full-length collection, Strange Gift (Wandering Aengus Press 2026). Words in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, and more. Wishing you sweetness and light.
veronicakornberg.com
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
@chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social Poet, writer, lover of music and kitty cats. Ken's wife. Po-editor at Eclectica Magazine, author of The Bean Books. She/her
Joe Cottonwood @joecot.bsky.social Unlicensed poet. Licensed Mr. Fixit. Dog person. Redwood lover. Hot tub soaker.
Charm City Poet @charmcitypoet.bsky.social Matt Hohner won the 2023 Jacar Press Poetry Book Contest for AT THE EDGE OF A THOUSAND YEARS. Poetry editor for The Loch Raven Review. First book: THRESHOLDS AND OTHER POEMS (Apprentice House, 2018).
Thomas A Thomas @tathomas.bsky.social Poet, photographer, Olympia Poetry Network board member. See my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thomasathomas
katiekemple.bsky.social @katiekemple.bsky.social Poet. Debut chapbook Big Man (Chestnut Review, 2025) More at katiekemplepoetry.com
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social Lit writer: poetry collection @mooncitypress, CNF @splitlippress, novella from neutral zones press. My work is landscape-immersed and character-driven. Interests are broad. NH->CO->WA https://claudiaputnam.com
Michael Mark (he/him) @michaelgrow.bsky.social #poetry, @rattlepoetry chapbook prize, wanderer, Best New Poets ‘24, Pushcart ’26 michaeljmark.com
Sarah Etlinger @drsaephd.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Milwaukee. Coffee. Dogs. Most recent collection: A Bright Wound, Cornerstone Press.
Sherry O'Keefe @sherryokeefe.bsky.social Poet with a day job.
Tom Barlow @tombarlow.bsky.social Author of five novels, a hundred short stories, and a thousand poems. Man, are my fingers tired!
Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social No longer a person of interest.
@smalljones on most social networks.
Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
Recent publications: smalljones.com
@nancysobanik.bsky.social @nancysobanik.bsky.social Poet. My chapbook "The Unfolding" published in May, 2026 by Finishing Line Press. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-unfolding-by-nancy-sobanik/
Saira Rashid Khan🍉 @sairarashidkhan.bsky.social MultiWriter(more of a poet) small business owner🌸I live in Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social Lawyer/Poet. Poems appear or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Washington Square Review, Indiana Review, New Letters, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social I’m a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems.
https://davebonta.com
Clint Margrave @clintmargrave.bsky.social Visitor (2022): NYQ Books | Lying Bastard (2020):Run Amok Books | Salute the Wreckage (2016):NYQ Books | The Early Death of Men (2012):NYQ Books.
Richard Jordan @rich-jordan.bsky.social Poet, mathematician. Poems published or forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Rattle (Rattle Prize Finalist), Gargoyle, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, New York Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sho Poetry Journal. Assoc. Editor @ Thimble Lit.
Shawn Aveningo-Sanders @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social Mother, Wife, Nana, Daughter, Sister, Poet, Editor, Designer, Publisher, & Basic Nerd
My chapbook POCKETS just released by MoonPath Press.
Get a signed copy at https://redshoepoet.com
Kevin Ridgeway @kevinridgeway82.bsky.social Poet/Writer/Editor
@chasetwichell.bsky.social @chasetwichell.bsky.social
Rachel @rachelcuster.bsky.social Christ follower, NEA fellow, poet
Songsonthewaytogod.substack.com
Julie Kane @juliekanepoet.bsky.social National Poetry Series winner, Fulbright Scholar, Louisiana Poet Laureate, Best American Poet. Just out is Naked Ladies: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2025).
Mike Bove @mikebove.bsky.social Writer & English Prof in Portland, ME
Editor of @holeinthehead.bsky.social
www.mikebove.com
Chelsea McClellan @chelseamcclellan.bsky.social Poetry
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Rachel Nix @rachelnix.bsky.social Aunt. Alabamian. Queer. Poet. Dog person.
Author of I Don't Go Down That Road Anymore
Editor @screendoorreview.bsky.social
screendoorreview.com 🏳️🌈
Associate Editor @hobocampreview.bsky.social
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/
Joseph Kerschbaum @josephkerschbaum.bsky.social Poet, posts about writing, subs, craft. Latest poetry collections: Midnight Sunrise (2024) & Mirror Box (2020), both from Main St. Rag Press. Poetry staff for The Flying Island Journal. Noms: Pushcart, BoTN, Lilly. More: www.thirstyocean.com
Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social Haibun Editor ‘Modern Haiku’
Awards: Winner - Bridport & Touchstone / Finalist - Rattle
📚 CRAZY BITCHES (selected haibun), CAROUSEL, THE UNWORN NECKLACE,
DEFLECTION, HAIBUN a writer’s guide
https://robertabeary.com
hannah eve @hannaheve.com writer. poet. founder/editor of @therebis.com, an annual print anthology that celebrates the depth & diversity of tarot, one card at a time.
besides #tarot, mostly #poetry, the cosmos, music, eroticism & parenting a witchy child
hannaheve.substack.com
Brian O'Sullivan @bposullivan.bsky.social English professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Poems at Rattle, HOWL New Irish Writing, ONE ART, New Verse News, Contemporary Haibun Online, Verse Virtual, The Ekphrastic Review. Reader at Chestnut Review. Squad member at ThePoetrySpace_.
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
Haiku Seed Journal @haikuseed.bsky.social https://haikuseed.com/
Martin Cloutier @1martincloutier.bsky.social Author of Waiting for Something Else, an irreverent, unrequited sex comedy.
https://www.martincloutier.net/
Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
Hanna Patrice Pachman @hannapachman.bsky.social Poet, teacher, writer, breather, singer, experimental filmmaker.
Poems published by Rattle, Maudlin House, the MacGuffin and more: https://www.hannapatricepachman.com/poetry.html
Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Russell Brakefield @russellbrakefield.bsky.social Writer: MY MODEST BLINDNESS (Autofocus), IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS AT THE PARK WEST (Wayne State Univ Press), FIELD RECORDINGS (Wayne State Univ Press).
Prof: University of Denver Writing
Annie Finch @anniefinch.com Author Spells: New and Selected Poems, Eve, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, & 20 other books. Stanford Ph.D. Priestess of Meters. Poetry Witch. Activist. Speaker. Performer.
🌀 Point your flower—like a fire—
#SpeakItThrice! #MagicHappens #GoddessesRising
Dr Q @thedrq.bsky.social 🎨 ✍🏼
I'm def not a bot
Tammy C. Greenwood @tcgreenwood.bsky.social Poet and Printmaker. Pushcart nom. Poetry in Rattle, Whale Road Review, The Pinch, McNeese Review, SWWIM, Door is A Jar, FERAL, Emerge Journal, Rust and Moth, Orange Blossom Review and elsewhere.
Clem Byard @clembyard.bsky.social Haiku writer, non-indigenous Australian living on Wurundjiri Land
My other account (lots of weird stuff): @weirdmelbs.bsky.social
Website: clembyard.com
Other things I like:
~ Australianiana
~ Gothic / Horror
~ Psychedelia
~ Surrealism
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
Pedro Poitevin @poitevin.bsky.social Experimental poet and theoretical mathematician.
OddWritings @oddwritings.bsky.social I write and publish poetry in magazines, books, and as NFTs. I prefer writing word-unit palindrome poems when I can get away with it, or short poems on AI-generated backgrounds. I am currently working on this book : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM2Q6DL9
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
biswajitpoetry @biswajitca.bsky.social free verse poetry, haiku, other Japanese micro poems, and occasional flash fiction
Mark Danowsky @markdanowsky.bsky.social EiC of ONE ART: a journal of poetry
>>> @oneart.bsky.social
⬇️ Daily Poems ⬇️
~ oneartpoetry.com ~
⬇️ Stay Curious ⬇️
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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social What d'ya mean, "normal men"
birdsandbeesandblooms.com
Marc Alan Di Martino @marcadimartino.bsky.social Poet & translator. Support 🇺🇦 Pro-democracy. Atheist. South Canadian. Reader at @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Translation: https://worldpoetrybooks.com/books/day-lasts-forever | Web: marcalandimartino.com
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social Writer. Energy Policy. Former EBook nerd. Former Brooklynonian. Sort of an all around, everyday kind of entity trying to acclimate to the burbs, be a dad and a hubbo, and find a little pie now and then. 40+ Pie, Books, Comics, MTG, Science, Pie. He/Him
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
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
https://scflynn.com
David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social Poet and Teacher (he/him)
Berkeley, CA (Ohlone territory)
You can read some poems here:
https://davidrosenthal.weebly.com/
Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Books: ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022. ‘Kiss Chase with Darwin’ forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books, Nov 2026.
Brian Beatty @brianbeatty.bsky.social Five books of poems; a spoken-word album; Anti-Heroin Chic, Appalachian Journal, The Beatnik Cowboy, BULL, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Evergreen Review, Floyd County Moonshine, McSweeney's, ONE ART, The Quarterly, Rattle, The Southern Review.
Coffee and Haiku ( Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta) @coffeeandhaiku.bsky.social Haikai Poet • Sumi-e/Ink/Animation/Photography & miscellaneous creative dabblings
www.coffeeandhaiku.in
IG: @coffeeandhaiku
Editor: @haikuseed.bsky.social journal
Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social A Beloved Fire Becomes the House (Red Moon Press, July 2026)🏠
Co-EIC @whiptailjournal.bsky.social🦎 Winner, Rattle Chapbook Prize 🐦 Creator of the multi-haiku form sudo-ku.
Hampshire College F87 🦄 & Ph.D. Biochemistry https://katlehmann.weebly.com/
Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Cat Dad 🐈⬛🐈⬛Cinephile 🎞️🎬Published poet ✍️ with work appearing in various journals including Kestrel, The Southern Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and others, as well as several anthologies. www.michaelboccardo.com
Connie Post @conniepostpoet.bsky.social Poet. Author of 3 poetry chapbooks ; And When the Sun Drops, Trip Wires and Broken Metronome. And 3 full length poetry collections; Floodwater , Prime Meridian and Between Twilight.
Timothy Liu @timothyliupoet.bsky.social Poète Maudit. DOWN LOW AND LOWDOWN: BEDSIDE BOTTOM-FEEDER BLUES; LUMINOUS DEBRIS: NEW & SELECTED LEGERDEMAIN (1992-2017). www.timothyliu.net
Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social Writer. Wine taster.
Chapbook prize winner. Memoirist.
Words in Josephine Quarterly, Thin Skin, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, The Fourth River, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review... Found in Europe + Florida.
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Joshua Eric Williams @jdubs-poet.bsky.social Poet
Whiskey Radish @whiskeyradish.bsky.social nDada poet
Book out soon from Red Ogre Review
nDada poems in The Columbia Review, Penn Review, Harvard Advocate, Oxford Review of Books, The Hopkins Review, Oxford Review of Books, etc
Check out www.nDadaPublic.org
Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social Poetry. Free verse & form. Severe ME/CFS. The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, Nashville Review, THINK, Thimble Lit, ballast, Pensive, Prelude, Ekstasis, Reformed Journal, Amethyst Review, Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Relief Journal...