THE POETRY COMMUNITY (VOLUME 2)
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
@patriciadebney.com
Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re Child Sexual Abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/ #CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026) marthasprackland.co.uk
@katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social
Mother, writer, public servant. Poetry co-editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
@deemclachlan.bsky.social
Poet and author for hire or loan. Won some prizes. Account is stuff from a small town in NE Scotland. Hoping to kickstart #HaikuAltText & #PoemAltText She/Her https://dawnmclachlan.com/dawnmclachlan-author/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-pdlbl
@susancondon.bsky.social
Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme Susancondon.Wordpress.com
@piecesofi.bsky.social
Strategic Partnerships, Women's Health Catalyst, Values-based Leader, Poet, Co-author💙 Living my mantra: "Know your value, Live your values" No DM's No "pitching" https://www.piecesofi.com/poetry
@gaynorkanepoet.bsky.social
Generally creative (she/her) likes writing, reading, art and photography. Published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
@louloumach.bsky.social
Mancunian, Poet, Reader, Educator, Critic, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024) https://www.louisemachen.com
@leannemodenpoet.bsky.social
Poet, community artist, theatremaker, and freelance creative type. I love cats, books, Nottingham, and open water swimming. My collection, Get Over Yourself, is out now on Burning Eye Books. https://linktr.ee/leannemodenpoet
@katenoakes.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Critic Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022) www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com Lives in Bristol No book promoters or god bothers thanks
@craftygreenpoet.bsky.social
Adult Education Tutor, Poet and Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor and Conservation Volunteer. Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com/
@juliebird.bsky.social
PhD student (NTU), poet, retired primary-school teacher. Avoiding bucket lists. My poetry pamphlet 'Remembering' published by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social September 2024.
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social
Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Arthropod (death of workers), Gag (above / ground), Mortar (Osmosis).
@dizzylynn.bsky.social
Poet and dog mum often lost in the mire of poor mental health. Debut collection, Life’s Stink & Honey #CinnamonPress 2022. Scots Language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars @ HedgehogPoetryPress 2021. Working on next collection with #CinnamonPress. She/her
@martinfigura.bsky.social
Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
@matriches.bsky.social
Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead. Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press in November 23. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci". https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
@matthewepaul.bsky.social
The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spire Press, https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul), The Evening Entertainment (Eyewear), The Regulars, The Lammas Lands, Wing Beats (Snapshot Press) / reviews / essays / www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog
@melaniebranton.bsky.social
Spoken word artist, Green Party member, lover of linguistics and cryptic crosswords, hater of plastic (she/her or they/them)
@bigjosh84.bsky.social
Poet. Bard. Pragmatist. Spiritual Nomad. A soul untamed and a heavy heart, making sense of the madness. Searching for truth, peace, and answers until all humankind is free. .
@francoisregier.bsky.social
🔥Poetry lover. All works ©🔥 Share the words that melts my heart & I'll kiss the day you came #vss365 Latest poems here👇 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ximrelb43oenykaci22avjj5/feed/aaafyru4x6bte
@bbruise.bsky.social
Let's write a better future. Ben Bruges, poet, works in education, lives in Hastings, UK. benbruges.medium.com/i-didnt-know-you-wrote-poetry-e0b25651ca62
@sallrock.bsky.social
queer, neurodivergent poet and access support worker www.sallyannerock.com FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
@davewakely.bsky.social
Househusband, cook, gardener, guitar player, composer, writer. Shortlisted for Manchester, Bath + Cambridge Short Story awards; fiction/poetry in numerous journals and anthologies. Owns huge number of cookbooks. Online Programme Mngr, @MKLitFest.
@dislaney.bsky.social
Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. Books at Valley Press.
@emmalee1.bsky.social
Poet, reviewer, short story writer based in Leicester, UK. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
@gayle7dgd.bsky.social
Hi , I'm Gayle , an early 60's transwoman who likes what I like including fashion, football, karaoke, music, politics, shopping, spoken word poetry and theatre.
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@hilaryotto.bsky.social
Devon poet in Barcelona, technical editor, shapeshifter. Winner: Hastings Book Festival Poetry Comp 2022. Pamphlet: Zoetrope (Hedgehog, 2023).
@imogenreid.bsky.social
PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
@irisannelewis.bsky.social
Writer (mainly poetry). Poems in Black Bough, High Window, Ink Sweat and Tears, Iamb. First collection 'Amber' published 2024. Founder of the poetry group 'Wordbrew'.
@nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social
#Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
@occulife.bsky.social
Word herder, ink drinker, nature botherer, carer, caree. N / S Pennines CNF, flash fiction & poetry sprinkled around - digitally & print. *Chapbook ‘Light-eater’ ✨out now: https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/light-eater-claire-marsden-print-edition/
@wallegrezza.bsky.social
Poet, editor, teacher, hiker, bass player. Curator of impractical slogans, archivist of transliterated images, wrangler of imaginary water buffalos.
@christacraw.bsky.social
Fueled by tea and my love of haiku, photography, nature, and art. My amazing partner: @bill-crawford.bsky.social My posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bneirbe2i7sk2ffaooehc2dz/feed/aaaiixaiki4ng
@rwilliamparmenter.com
Indie-author | Poet | Artist | Dad | Atheist | Humanist | I say ‘awesome’ a lot | he/him ; 💛🩵🩷💜💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://lnk.bio/rwilliamparmenter
@roblyates.bsky.social
Author, creative, and professor. "Son of God" was released via Spartan Press in 2024. Check it out for some deconstructive goodness https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/son-of-god-rob-yates/1145596380 (Migrating website/gallery, back with prints summer 2025)
@jameshduncan.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Editor, Indie Bookshop Reviewer Hobo Camp Review + The Bookshop Hunter Website: jameshduncan.com Books: jameshduncan.com/books Hobo Camp: hobocampreview.blogspot.com The Bookshop Hunter: thebookshophunter.com
@angiecrouch.bsky.social
Media Consultant, Voice Actor, Emmy Award-winning Journalist (formerly NBCLA), joyfully writing my first book of Poetry
@pewterpicsandpen.bsky.social
She/They Poet, Ponderer, Photographer This is a Safe Space. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Please Be Kind Here https://substack.com/@pewterpicsandthepewterpen https://www.youtube.com/@PewterPicsandThePewterPen
@rainegeoghegan.bsky.social
International Poet, Playwright, Curator & Editor of KIN, an anthology celebrating Romany, Traveller & Nomadic Communities with Salmon Poetry Press, Founder of Writing as Sanctuary’. #Breast Cancer Survivor/ Chronic Illness/ Disability
@jburroughs.bsky.social
Recent US Beat Poet Laureate Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep. https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
@toddedillard.bsky.social
“Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, poetry editor of The Boiler, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
@staceypowells.bsky.social
Author/Poet//Music Licensing Pro/Wedding Officiant/Happily married Wifey/Playwright/LGBTQ Ally/Activist/G-Ma/Mountain&Beach Lover/💙💙Storm&Geology Nerd. 🚫Porn🚫DM NoSexBots!!🚫MAGA
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
@noonessleep.bsky.social
Poet, Translator, & Occasional Philosopher | Books: Venetian Mirrors 2024; The Sepia Carousel 2017; Chains of Snow 2013. Poetry: https://pittstreetpoetry.com/poet/jakob-ziguras/. Philosophy: https://independent.academia.edu/JakobZiguras.
@davigray.bsky.social
Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, and abolitionist. Website: davigray.com. 18+ 🙏🏼 Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rogue Agent & elsewhere.
@michaelrunning.bsky.social
Therapist, partner, poet; astonished by it all. Oregon ➡️ Scotland ➡️ 台灣 ➡️ Oregon www.michaelrunning.care
@jeremyspringsteed.bsky.social
Poet, barista, cafe manager, Cure fanatic, lover of post punk,wacky anarchist living in late stage capitalism.
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her Austin
@hiramlarew.bsky.social
Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
@jennmartelli.bsky.social
Poet, co-po editor at MER, author of PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE (Lily), THE QUEEN OF QUEENS (Bordighera), work in Poetry, Academy of American Poets. She/her
@trippweavpoet.bsky.social
Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
@ryukanski.bsky.social
Poet/interviewer Paul E. Nelson, son of a labor activist father & Cuban immigrant mother. Born on Chicago’s west side in 1961, he founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. https://paulenelson.com https://cascadiapoeticslab.org
@joseph-landi.bsky.social
Poet and medical writer. Poems in North American Review, The Southern Review, South Carolina Review, Midwest Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Rhino, etc. Looking for my 3,000 Twitter followers.
@sandymcintosh.bsky.social
Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs. https://sandymcintosh.info
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
@melissatuckey.bsky.social
Poet, Editor, Activist. Tenuous Chapel, Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.
@burgi.bsky.social
Loves books. Writes poems. She/her For everything else: https://linktr.ee/burgitree Banner photo: partial view of the shadow of a cast-iron chair and a plant on flagstones. Profile pic: w woman (ponytail, red jacket) @ microphone, reading from a sheet
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution *at all* apparently) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@marjoleinrotsteeg.bsky.social
Published writer and poet in English, Dutch and French. *Author of 'Cherchez la femme. Travestie als fenomeen' (Vassallucci, 1996) *Former music journalist #haiku #writing #books #poetry #cats #nature #art 🚫NFT 🚫Begging 🚫love, religion, 'Hello' DM's
@palimpsest22.bsky.social
Mainly poetry (Butcher's Dog,The Madrigal, Green Ink, BlackBough, Winged Moon & counting), art, glass & (theatre) people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow connections. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan. Website :www.sarahowriter.com
@taylor-strickland.bsky.social
Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
@bethbpoet.bsky.social
Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
@benedictan.bsky.social
Poet| Debut ‘24 Black Cat Poetry| Guardian reading, tofu eating member of wokerati, citizen of the world/nowhere, middle class woman of a certain age, liberal woman over 50. Poems linked: https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
@robmclennan.bsky.social
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
@magic-l-bearr.bsky.social
Occasional performance poet, a writer of one book of poetry thus far. Mainly making music of the EDM variety. Ambitions to sculpt more stone. A keeper of fish, chickens, one Lazarus, and a few rats and local wildlife. Artist perhaps!? Working at it anyway!
@zoomburst.substack.com
Sixty odd years old. Running the Sixty Odd Press. I once wrote a book called Sixty Odd Songs, and have now almost completed Sixty Odd Poems, and am well on the way with the Sixty Odd Poets project. zoomburst.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
@vickymharris.bsky.social
Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @ellipsiszine.bsky.social @Greatlakesreview @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, @rfpress.bsky.social http://linktr.ee/vickymharris
@michaeldechane.bsky.social
Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing). #poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
@cameronlawrence.bsky.social
Poet + Painter. Atlanta by way of Arizona. Mainly at Instagram.com/cameronlawrence www.cameronlawrence.com
@chelcampbell.bsky.social
poet, artist, & bookbinder EIC of @memezine.bsky.social social media editor & poetry reader at Pithead Chapel poetry micro LOVEBUG (rinky dink press, March 2025) work appearing or forthcoming in X-R-A-Y, Rogue Agent, trampset, New Delta Review, & more
@casswhit.bsky.social
Poet, Writer 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (She/they/Mx). NBCC, full length out in 25 with Jackleg Press. https://wolfs-den.page/
@aishatonu.bsky.social
Poet, cat lover, eater of cheese. Books: La Petite Mort (Finishing Line), What Magick May Not Alter (Madville), Daughter of the Wheel and Moon (Red Mare), Amo e Canto (Sow's Ear). My novel: https://www.wattpad.com/story/369677900-a-duke-for-lady-ellen
@jackprestonking.bsky.social
Author of In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason and other books for rebels against the spiritual, creative, and cultural status quo. Writes unruly poems, short stories, and novels, too. jackprestonking.com
@atlascorpus.bsky.social
Poet and retired sound artist living in the Doan Brook watershed in Northeast Ohio. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003, with micro-chapbook excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.bsky.social. https://glennbach.com/
@danadelibovi.bsky.social
Poet, essayist, translator. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street. New book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila, available everywhere.
@jangleresse.bsky.social
Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia Poetry, books, art, history. Resisting the urge to despair.
@darbylyons.bsky.social
Retired English teacher, poet. Book and music lover. Midwesterner, kind of (Army brat, IYKYK), with Appalachian roots. MFA, Sewanee School of Letters. Senior editorial assistant, Cincinnati Review.
@jitterbugwrites.bsky.social
linktr.ee/victoriaspires Commended Ledbury Poetry, TPW Prize. Shortlisted Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award. Contributing editor - The Winged Moon. Debut pamphlet Soi-même available from Salo Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
@madelynfpoetry.bsky.social
Books👇🏾♡ 📚THE SYLVIA PLATH IN ME 📚THOUGHTS IN WATER FEELINGS ON SAND Poetry shop ⬇️ madelynfischerpoetry.org
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St Georges, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
@samszanto.bsky.social
Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher on mother-poetry and identity at York St John University. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich and Alien Buddha. Editor at The Afterpast Review. Blog interviewing writers. Southerner in Durham (UK) samszanto.com
@chickenbex.bsky.social
Poet 🐣 Debut collection ‘Down’ from Out-Spoken Press https://www.outspokenldn.com/shop/down
@jenjordan.bsky.social
Writer of creative nonfiction, poetry, and scholarly stuff. OER Librarian, professor, mumsy. She/her. New Mexican. Words: Creative Nonfiction, This American Life, Hayden's Ferry Review, & more. https://jenniferjordanwrites.com
@johnlooker.bsky.social
Here to share an interest in poetry, books, art & culture. Poetry published in journals & anthologies in UK, USA, NZ/Aotearoa, Australia, India. Books by independent publishers Bennison Books. Living in SE England. Website https://johnlooker.wordpress.com/
@cormacculkeen.bsky.social
Poet, writer, devourer of books. Amused/ bemused at the state of modern life. Fond of collecting malapropisms. Founding Editor of Ragaire literary magazine. Chipping away at a novel and second poetry collection. Prizes kindness.