THE POETRY COMMUNITY
In here, alongside a few poetry magazines, as well as some important supporters of poetry, you will find POETS
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@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@katherineeyoung.bsky.social
Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
@aspenbrave.bsky.social
#BraveWrite|#Author|#Poet|#Screenwriter|#vss365|#tanka|#haiku|#PoetsOfBlueSky| Images: Mine-Stock-Pinterest|🚫DM|©️ AKA: @Write2Fite on Twitter
@andileighwrites.bsky.social
Author & Visual Artist Editor-in-Chief @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜 andileighwrites.com
@josefpadua.bsky.social
Writer, poet, author of A Short History of Monsters, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. https://linktr.ee/josepaduawriter
@eunoiareview.bsky.social
Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
@niamhvh-l.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, creative advisor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly). UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk. https://linktr.ee/nh_l
@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
@jimzovich.bsky.social
Wordslayer, guitar strangler, art botherer, armchair psychogeographer. Amanuensis to anarchist philosopher Crofton Wingwalker. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of The Archers. Southampton, UK.
@takahemagazine.bsky.social
Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
@ianduhig.bsky.social
'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
@fionalarkin.bsky.social
Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects.
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher. https://therialto.co.uk
@emmaharding.bsky.social
Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
@bridportprize.bsky.social
📝 Worldwide creative writing comp 📝 Over £20K prize pot 📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson 📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal 📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize. bridportprize.org.uk
@uhume.bsky.social
Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide. . www.ulricahume.com . Read poem: https://ricjournal.com/2024/09/28/hollow-heart-ulrica-hume/
@helen-evans.bsky.social
Poet, and facilitator of two poetry projects: Inner Room & Poems for the Path Ahead. Published by HappenStance Press and Mariscat Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
@pdevonald.bsky.social
Multi award-winning poet/screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Second Shelley Memorial 2024 | Winner FofHCS, HoH, BoN nomx2, Forward Prize nom | Winner HoH, Waltham Forest | Children's Bafta nom
@poetessoprunty.bsky.social
Artist. Poetess ©. Interests include, but not limited to, literature, art, history, mythology, folklore, archeology, photography, Vintage, Fine arts etc... "Never let'em determine your worth - only you can do that" OPrunty
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Writer, mum, journalist. The Process of Poetry, Amazon no.1. Sequel here https://www.5islandspress.com/product-page/the-making-of-a-poem, or direct from me if you're in the UK. Journalist The Guardian, SMH, The Australian and Salon.com
@wavelace.bsky.social
Yorkshire woman with her heart in the southwest & Kassiopi. Wears a rescue collie & a poet, occasionally puts words on pages, always wants to walk in the wavelace at sunset.
@ronniegoodyer.bsky.social
Poet/Publisher https://indigodreamspublishing.com/ 6 collections, one jt @wavelace 'Forest moor or less'. Lives Devon forest with Dawn & Mist the merle collie. Keen photographer/nature lover. Animal Rights campaigner. Lost hair following Coventry City FC
@poetrysouth.bsky.social
An annual international poetry magazine published by the low-residency MFA at Mississippi University for Women. Read free back issues, subscribe, or submit your poems at http://www.poetrysouth.com
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
@mryrjo.bsky.social
Associate Director of a research organization. Single, 67, poet and thinker.
@clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social
Co-Editor of @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. Poet - publications include Collision (Against the Grain Press) and Somewhere Between Rose and Black (V. Press). MA Creative Writing student at University of Birmingham.
@atriumpoetry.bsky.social
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social www.atriumpoetry.com
@seagoatscreams.bsky.social
A bit earnest Poet, runner, sea, goat Fae-wed BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom PoetryArchive PAN winner Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe #SkyPoem foundergoblin He/him https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
@racheldeering.bsky.social
Onemorething on ABC Tales, Twitter @deeringrachel Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. 🖤 literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering No AI!
@annestgwilym.bsky.social
Poet, nature lover, Cymraes. Nominated/winner of writing awards/prizes. Author of three poetry books. My third, Seasons in the Sun, is available from https://carreg-gwalch.cymru/products/seasons-in-the-sun?_pos=1&_psq=Seasons+in+the+Sun&_ss=e&_v=1. 🚫DMs
@lucycoatswriter.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Myth witch. Classical Association Prize 2017. Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2022. Bridport Poetry Shortlist 2024. Holy rage Feminist/Animist. 🐝 🐍 Lover of owls & goddesses. ADHD/ND & ME\CFS🥄 Free 🇵🇸 💗💙💜 Threads: @lucywriter Web: lucycoats.com
@seanjbates.bsky.social
writer/poet/educator UMassAmherst MFA alum three poems a week: https://substack.com/@seanjbates poems in: Stone Canoe Rising Phoenix Review "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump", Curbstone Books. https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
@raehowells.bsky.social
Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023. ✍🏻 Poet in residence at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust 📚 Books: 🐝 The Language of Bees 🌿This Common Uncommon (Parthian) 📌 Project Manager at #NUJ Training Wales 🏴 Cymraes
@hannahl1n.bsky.social
Poet Devon, UK 1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html
@benjlmorgan.bsky.social
Poet, writer, tutor, Shakespeare studies in Oxford, creative writing Medea in Corinth - revised second edition January 2025 from Poetry Salzburg Youtube 🎥 reviews: https://www.youtube.com/@filmclubofone
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. Recent work : "Wolf Eye"(Red Ceilings Press, 2023).Wolf Eye Territory (ImpSpired, 2024),"The Dude Work,' Sherwood Handcrafted Press, 2024
@saccharinequeen.bsky.social
Functions adequately. New poetry published by Red Ogre, 'The Usual Apologies ' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYVL2PZC ) Short story collection coming with Acid Bath Press later in the year. May contain smut.
@erikkennedy.com
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022, @thwupbooks.bsky.social). 'Sick Power Trip', July 2025. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch http://www.erikkennedy.com
@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
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Writer & musician | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press)| THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press) | Nominations: Pushcart, BotN, Orison Best Spiritual Literature | Contributing editor: The Winged Moon Magazine linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
@clareobrien.bsky.social
Poet in Residence at Inverewe Garden, Scottish Highlands. Published author. Arts lover. Gardener. Swiftie. Ditched X & Meta, now only here. Death to Trumpery & A.I. slop. Slava Ukraini! #poetsonbluesky Web: https://clarevobrien.weebly.com/
@hedgehogpress.co.uk
Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh! www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
@mcrucefix.bsky.social
Poet, blogger on poetry, translator. See my website https://martyncrucefix.com/ + Editor of Young Poets Page Acumen Poetry magazine https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/young-poets/
@ajdeane.bsky.social
Pushcart Nominee Spec Poetry & Flash Fic 🪐🪄 www.ajpagefarer.wordpress.com ET3, Broken Spine, From One Line, Urban Pigs, Forgotten Ground Regained, etc Writer. Editor. VO. Cat lover. Geek. 📚 #SpecPo #SFFpoetry #poetry #Writersky www.ajdeane.com
@drnaturegirl.bsky.social
Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner & veg grower, advocate for nature and the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile, indie book publisher. Social & environmental justice now! https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
@jonathaneveritt.bsky.social
freelance writer | poet | Rochester, N.Y. jonathaneveritt.com
@helenivory.bsky.social
Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on