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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social poet•author•artist•fool. aging, tr^ns, qu♾️r, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they.
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Diane Exavier @dexaco.bsky.social (Actually) retired playwright who now makes books! 🎭 Bernarda's Daughters 📚 The Math of Saint Felix. Editor @ The 3rd Thing. Writer @ life. www.dianeexavier.live
Downingfield Press @downingfield.bsky.social Publishing books for the enquiring mind since 2017. Specialising in non-fiction and poetry.
We accept submissions year round. Emerging writers welcome.
Melbourne • Montréal and London
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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.
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social husband & father, educator & writer
Stephanie @stephster-m-m.bsky.social "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble." -Rudyard Kipling
Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social | kansas city | mostly poetry |
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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social Philly poet
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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social A house of poetry overlooking the Hudson River - a library, literary center, & locus of poetic inspiration. //
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@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
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Brad Carter @bradcarter.bsky.social Milwaukee
Match Factory Editions @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social A press for fired-up poetry and poetry hybrids. https://matchfactoryeditions.com/
Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social San Francisco based LGBTQ+ journal and press—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives. 🌈 🌉
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Factory Hollow Press @factoryhollowpress.bsky.social www.factoryhollowpress.com
The Cultural Society @theculturalsociety.bsky.social Publishers of poetry and poetry-related books and ephemera since 2001.
Larry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Kanika Agrawal @antiquarkic.bsky.social
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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com
Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social 🩸 Writing about my family’s rural true crime
📕MFA Brown University | PhD Denver
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Alejandro @amac360.bsky.social Researcher. Chemist. Expert in botany and cultivation. Anyone who has questions, to discuss, or help with advice as I have the self awareness to understand I don’t know everything, so criticism and advice are good tools for learning.
Circumference Books @circumferencebooks.com We publish poetry in facing-page translation: https://circumferencebooks.com
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Summer J. Hart @summerjhart.bsky.social interdisciplinary artist and writer 🌈🖤 author of BOOMHOUSE (2023, @the3rdthing.press) and Sky Burial, forthcoming from @jacklegpress in 2026 🐦⬛
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social Video poem in human form.
Canadian-Lithuanian-American.
INSTEAD OF COMMUNITY WE GOT THE ALGORITHM.
Alter ego / activist: @linarvit Fuck Fascism.
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Timothy Moore @timothymoore.bsky.social writer/instructor/friend
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Sarah Gzemski @sargzem.bsky.social poet; executive director, noemi press; extremely like other girls; she/her
co•im•press @coimpress.bsky.social A fiercely independent small press founded in 2013.
Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social Noemi Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher committed to publishing innovative writing. We have been a historically brown and queer press since our founding in 2002.
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@mayormcfish.bsky.social @mayormcfish.bsky.social 
sami h. tripp @sayerofsooth.bsky.social poet + soothsayer + librarian + not a girl (they/m)
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).
Anne K Yoder @annekyoder.bsky.social author of The Enhancers; part-time pill pusher; jack of all trades at Meekling Press
Ben Cartwright @benfantastika.bsky.social Eraser, collagist, poet, fiction writer, mixed media, ceramics, printmaking, community college professor, arcade cabinet maker, roller of polyhedral dice, big-time yapper
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@ellenwelcker.bsky.social @ellenwelcker.bsky.social 
The 3rd Thing @the3rdthing.press https://the3rdthing.press
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Sarah Tavis @selkie-sarah.bsky.social swimmer, writer, teacher, artist, former bookseller
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Substack: The Scrap Heap (https://open.substack.com/pub/scrapheap)
Writing & Creativity Coach: www.sarahtavis.com
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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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY. 
Joel Craig @joelcraig.bsky.social Poet>HUMANOID (Green Lantern Press)
Artistic Associate>litluz.org
Spout Press @spoutpress.bsky.social A Twin Cities collective-based nonprofit publisher of books emphasizing emerging talent, community-building, & artistic collaborations. Distributed by Asterism Books.
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Tabi Po Poetry @tabipopoetry.bsky.social Rooted in Filipinx reverence & Midwestern grit | Featured Poets & Open Mic | Third Sundays in Milwaukee | Hosted by Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland | www.tabipopoetry.com
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David Leftwich @davidleftwich.bsky.social Dad/cook. 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book winner: at dawn, the first of the first to sing, pubs Fall ‘27. Writer/editor covering Houston food: Houston Chronicle, Edible Houston, Houston Food Finder, Sugar&Rice, Cite. https://www.davidleftwich.net/
David M. Smith @smithiganswake.bsky.social Norwegian-to-English literary translator. Madison, WI, USA
@pandabach.bsky.social @pandabach.bsky.social Art historian (Harvard PhD, 2017), poet, painter
A A Allen @a-a-allen.bsky.social Poet, writer, researcher, educator
Carrie Hunter @cshunter.bsky.social MA/MFA Poetics
MA TESOL
“The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself” from Roof Books 2025
niina pollari @niina.bsky.social beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold
author of PATH OF TOTALITY (2022) and DEAD HORSE (2015). RISK TOLERANCE forthcoming from autofocus books. reviews ed. at zona motel. poet, translator, parent in nc.
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Jenn (fka McCreary) DiGuglielmo @jenndig.bsky.social Philly poet // aging against the machine 
Cam Fransee @boxpuns.bsky.social Gay tree nerd 🌳🏳️🌈
Chaos tester 💻
Little sister
Auntie
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madison mae parker @madisonmaeparker.bsky.social word witch who enjoys a good ritual just wishing it was the 2006 internet again.
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Shabroky 𓆏 @shabroky.bsky.social I’m from Wisconsin.
I play and fix instruments.
I read books as well.
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@lauravonbergen.bsky.social @lauravonbergen.bsky.social 
@jackielalley.bsky.social @jackielalley.bsky.social 
Jen Tynes @jentynes.bsky.social Walks and writes and forages and teaches.
Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social Poet-errant
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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
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@michael-sikkema.bsky.social @michael-sikkema.bsky.social 
Eric the Vermilion @vermilionclouds.bsky.social Roots nobody sees
Taller than the trees
Up, up it goes
Laura Solomon @lagsolo.bsky.social Poet / Executive Director @ Woodland Pattern
Jenny Gropp @jgroppppp.bsky.social Executive Director @WoodlandPattern.bsky.social / Poet / Editor / Views my own 🐚 🌊🌈🥾 https://linktr.ee/WoodlandPattern
Jan Eric Dyke @freejazzcat.bsky.social 
Jesse (Malmed) @marmblatt.bsky.social aka jetsy merchblatt, jersi memeblatt, jpeg malware, jelly marmalade, djembe marimba, etc. artist, curator, professor: chicago, milwaukee, santa fe. jessemalmed.net 📻📽️🖼️🎤 & jetsy.biz 🧢🪧📌
Jenni Moody @moodyjenni.bsky.social Friend of Abe, writer, zinester, Pokémon Go
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Christeene Alcosiba @christeene.bsky.social Poems, tech, liminal spaces, and good trouble.
Opinions are my own.
Waters Edge Press @watersedgepress.bsky.social Small, independent press committed to supporting literary artists. Born in Wisconsin, now based in Tucson, Arizona
watersedgepress.com
Signe Jorgenson @signejorgenson.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Bibliophile. Learn more at signejorgenson.com.
Frederick Speers @frederickspeers.bsky.social Senior leader in high-tech learning | Poet & author of two books: So Far Afield; and, In the Year of Our Making & Unmaking | Proud husband & dog dad | Gaymer & geek | Wildlife fan | Colorado | Pronouns: he/him 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Personal account: views are my own.
Kasey Jueds @kaseyryoen.bsky.social poet, probably covered in dog hair | she/her | books: KEEPER & THE THICKET (both Pitt Poetry)
Dan Bostrom @danbostrom.bsky.social Libraries + community
Posts are my own, do not reflect my place of work
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social writer teacher dramaturg Every house has a door
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social (Retired) sound artist. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003: EVAD out now from above/ground press. Micro-chap excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.com. https://glennbach.com/- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Christine Wenc @clearwing3.bsky.social Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire. Say Wenc like sense. Agent: Daniel Greenberg@lgrliterary. The House on the Rock shaped my brain.
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/
Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press.
We champion innovative writing and writers.
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Krista Eastman @kristaeastman.bsky.social Writer. Person. // Author of The Painted Forest (WVU Press, 2019) // Recent work here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/article/941455/pdf And here: https://www.newletters.org/school-children-by-krista-eastman/
Sarah Ann Winn | Poet Camp @poetcamp.bsky.social I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo
*And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5!
PoetCamp.com
Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social a nonprofit, independent publisher
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Anne de Marcken @annedemarcken.com Writer • It Lasts Forever & Then It’s Over • The Accident: An Account • Editor/publisher @the3rdthing.press • Website https://annedemarcken.com
M. Forajter @saint-remus.bsky.social Tarpaulin Sky / Interrogating the Eye (Schism Press, 2022) / chaps @ dancing girl / mforajter.com
The act of being seen becomes one of self-torture. 
@pgulke.bsky.social @pgulke.bsky.social 
OhOldOcean @oholdocean.bsky.social Bea Szymkowiak, French-American poet, PhD
Red Zone (Finishing Line Press), B/RDS (University of Utah Press)