Working Poets
Starter pack of current poets, or for those who don't use that term, people who write & publish poems. Happy to remove anyone who doesn't want to be in this pack, just lmk.
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@a-woo.bsky.social
@gabbat.bsky.social
Poet Person. The days I don’t kill myself are extraordinary. Here for community and animals eating carrots. For booking readings and other businessy stuff contact Vaughan Fielder at The Field Office. Thanks! https://www.fieldofficewriters.com/gabrielle
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@heathenderr.bsky.social
Poet, 5 books, most recently Thrust (Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, Persea Books, 2018) and Outskirts(University of Akron Press, 2022).
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
poet • phd in english • 2 books with BOA Editions • latest chapbook @ghostcitypress.bsky.social • abolish the police & free palestine • https://www.chenchenwrites.com/the-latest
@juliabouwsma.bsky.social
Poet + Farmer + Librarian + Editor + Teacher + Maine Poet Laureate DEATH FLUORESCENCE (Sundress Publications, forthcoming June 2025), MIDDEN (Fordham University Press, 2018), WORK BY BLOODLIGHT (Cider Press Review, 2017)
@ugdamian.bsky.social
Author: In Gorgeous Display (Fordham Uni. Press, Sept ‘23) | Lambda Fellow ‘23| Alumnus, Tinhouse SW | Work: @poetrymagazine & others ugochukwudamian.com
@omotarajames.bsky.social
🌈 NAACP Image Award nominated debut, “Song of My Softening” OUT NOW 🌱 PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg "Worth the wait." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post 👇🏾 https://linktr.ee/omotarajames/?fbclid=PAAaY1S3Las3Dwvt9XE5-EtE
@bristokes.com
📍Los Angeles // 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow // 2024 Resident at The Seventh Wave // Editorial Assistant at Hinchas Press // Free Palestine 🇵🇸 💌: https://linktr.ee/bristokes 🧿
@tommyeblount.bsky.social
Detroiter who is the author of the poetry collections FANTASIA FOR THE MAN IN BLUE (Four Way Books) and WHAT ARE WE NOT FOR (Bull City Press)
@nomistone.bsky.social
Poet. Anthropologist. Author of 3 books, 2 of them about war and empire. Wife to a farmer wife. Mama to a peach. I cry a lot. Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (UC Press 2022) Kill Class (Tupelo Press 2019)
@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
@khadijahqueen.com
Doctor of poems. In my crone era. https://www.khadijahqueen.com/ linktr.ee/authorKQ
@aireadee.bsky.social
Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
@aproflection.bsky.social
Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Smaller Songs, St Brigid Press / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements linktr.ee/alpb
@poetrydaily.bsky.social
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997. Poems.com
@safiyasinclair.bsky.social
Author of HOW TO SAY BABYLON, memoir (@simonschuster & @4thEstateBooks) | Poet | Born & raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica | Booking: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
@chelsdingman.bsky.social
Author of Thaw (@ugapress 2017 National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD Candidate @ualberta Poetry editor @sweetliterary
@rustandmoth.bsky.social
Lit journal | cellar door knocker | sic semper tyrannis. Open for poetry submissions June 1st! www.rustandmoth.com www.duotrope.com/listing/13546/rust-and-moth
@bethbachmann.bsky.social
Poet. Novelist. Author of Temper, Do Not Rise, CEASE. www.bethbachmann.com
@rmennies.bsky.social
author of THE NAOMI LETTERS & THE GLAD HAND OF GOD POINTS BACKWARDS | assistant poetry and reviews editor, AGNI | poetry, also bread | she/her
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal Valentines Editor @ Honey Literary
@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
Newest: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@kenyonreview.bsky.social
In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
@notquitehydepark.bsky.social
poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. New super gay book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674273115Podcast: https://teamupmoves.com
@benpurkert.bsky.social
debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
@temim.bsky.social
Author of CITY OF LAUGHTER (Grove Atlantic) | queer non-binary anti-Zionist Jewish writer + gentleman | Co-host Pete's Reading Series | Brooklyn
@paullisicky.bsky.social
My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
@seminewblack.bsky.social
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
@akasomeguy.bsky.social
Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
@catherinepierce.bsky.social
Poems & essays * Poet Laureate of Mississippi * Four books, most recently DANGER DAYS (Saturnalia 2020) * Can be found looking at trees * catherinepiercepoet.com
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@mollyfisk.bsky.social
Poet, life coach, radio commentary, lake swimming Third collection out in '26 from Red Hen. Acad of Am Poets Laureate Fellow, NEA, MBA, waitress in Norway, you name it. I won't obey in advance, and I probably won't obey in arrears, either.
@lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
@daisyfried.bsky.social
Poet, critic, learning a few things. Four books: The Year the City Emptied Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice My Brother is Getting Arrested Again She Didn't Mean to Do It
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
@amico.bsky.social
Poetry Editor, The Florida Review • NEA fellow • MTG articles @ Commander’s Herald • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
@topangahippie.bsky.social
NEA Poetry fellow| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books includ Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong), Thru a Grainy Landscape, Only More So (Salmon) #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
@meredithackroyd.bsky.social
Poet, Artist, Mother. I write poems for adults and children, primarily in the field of contemporary English-language haiku, and have an MFA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University. she/her meredithackroyd.com
@sharalessley.bsky.social
Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
@1159cowboy.bsky.social
tboy poet from the philippines 🐛 debut chapbook forthcoming from gacha press 🌱 anmly poetry reader 🐎 sundress editorial intern 📚 ateneo press review crew 🗡️
@callistabuchen.bsky.social
poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
@nathanael73.bsky.social
Irish-Australian poet. TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & 13 other books. Best of the Net nominee. Creative writing professor. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
@caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
She/Her. Writer (Poetry and Flash Fiction) Millennial. Rochester, NY. Recently published in Gone Lawn, Lost Balloon, North of Oxford, EAP Magazine, and The Prose Poem. www.caitlinohalloran.com
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@mjmimages.bsky.social
A Breton boy eating sauerkraut? Impossible. [contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion] instagram: mjmimages
@suzfrischkorn.bsky.social
Poet | Writer | Editor | She/her | Author of WHIPSAW (Anhinga Press, 2024) | FIXED STAR (JackLeg Press) | + 2 more & five chapbooks | assistant poetry editor at Terrain.org | editor at $ Poetry is Currency | https://linktr.ee/SuzanneFrischkorn
@scryptkeeper.substack.com
🍉 || poemmaker | fieldtheorist | professora | hypewoman | librettist | performer | magicwand | humancat || linktr.ee/scryptkeeper || samiyabashir.com || Literary Agent: aragi.net || Bookings: theshipmanagency.com ||
@robertwoodlynn.bsky.social
poet sometimes. collection Mothman Apologia (2022 Yale University Press) and chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact (2023 Button Poetry). Kate Tufts/Yale Younger/NEA fellow
@brendashaughnessy.bsky.social
Poet, friend. Wrote TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016 CCP) Our Andromeda (2012 CCP) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008 CCP) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999 FSG). In UK—Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems (2022 Bloodaxe.)
@sarahroseetter.bsky.social
a little sweet, a little spicy. wrote the book of x, ripe (scribner, july 2023)
@dapowell.bsky.social
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
@mollytwomey.bsky.social
Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ New book launching in 2025 🚀💫
@mspencerpoet.bsky.social
she/ her | poet, critic, editor, wonk | IF THE HOUSE (UWisc Press), HINGE (SIU Press), INVITATORY (2024, Parlor Press) | Solidly Gen X
@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
@peacehearty.bsky.social
Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Some books: Red Juice, Violet Energy Ingots, and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
@vqr.bsky.social
An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org Weekly email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hiepvn Weekly poetry newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ilfAh1
@versedaily.bsky.social
The largest daily poem anthology... 22 years of poems in our archives! You know you need a little more poetry in your life. Get Verse Daily in your email: https://versedaily.substack.com/about
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@yoadrianididit.bsky.social
Poet / Polski kurczak w amerykańskim stylu. / Chicago. Preorder: HAIR SHIRT https://malarkeybooks.com/store/hairshirt Buy: The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around (Malarkey Books): https://bit.ly/3cTeXxH
@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
@briankspears.bsky.social
Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
@artichokeheart.bsky.social
(she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
@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
@poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social
Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. @NEAarts Fellow. Poet. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
@sarahali.bsky.social
poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) • poetry editor of West Branch • more at sarahgali.com 🍃
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@mikhailbazharov.bsky.social
Goat herder. Happy poet. Rhymes w/ gazette. Five books, including The ECHO CHAMBER (Milkweed) & CLOUDWATCHER (Copper Canyon) Translator of The Popol Vuh & Humberto Ak'abal NY Times Best Poetry 2018 NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation michaelbazzett.com
@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.
@paulmguest.bsky.social
Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
@jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
@beingpoetry.bsky.social
Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska. http://www.beingpoetry.net
@simeonberry.bsky.social
Author of Monograph (National Poetry Series, UGA Press) & Ampersand Revisited (National Poetry Series, Fence Books). Posts daily poems by others. he/him
@amorak.bsky.social
Loyola dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU professor & proud union member. Co-founding editor at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games and ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@taylorfthiel.bsky.social
POET | she/her Bone Valley Hymnal 2025 ELJ Editions EIC of BRAWL Asst. Poetry Editor of phoebe GMU MFA Poetry taylorfranson-thiel.com
@leepottspoet.bsky.social
EIC of Stone Circle Review (stonecirclereview.bsky.social) | Poems in various places | Pushcart & BotN Nominee. New chapbook, We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning: https://tinyurl.com/wellmissthestars leepotts.net
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
A relatively new poetry journal always open for submissions. Sharing poems that find a seam and take root. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. Member CLMP. https://stonecirclereview.com/
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@dseuss.bsky.social
Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
@jjrancourt.bsky.social
New book BROCKEN SPECTRE out now from Alice James Books | he/him | 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸 www.jacquesrancourt.com
@saraelizaj.bsky.social
author of BONE MAP (National Poetry Series/Milkweed 2014) and VAPOR (Milkweed 2022), vagabond, black hole, all around disappointment
@notsumatra.bsky.social
www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • 🇵🇸
@janeyeh3.bsky.social
Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com