THE POETRY COMMUNITY (VOLUME 3)
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
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator. TEDx speaker, New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). Ed-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, MA. My book ‘Afterbody’ is out through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh, very soon.
@francesca-laura.bsky.social
Art. Nature. Poetry. Life. She/Her https://linktr.ee/francescalauradesigns
@mother-poet.bsky.social
She/Her | Poet | 🏳️🌈 My work is published in Loblolly Press; Middle Mouse Press; Medicine and Meaning, where I also review poems; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net. Views expressed here are my own.
@bottonowriter.bsky.social
Poet, writer and workshop facilitator discussing #disability, #grief and #mentalhealth Based in SW England http://theartypoet.substack.com
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry etc. published elsewhere https://linktr.ee/richlyevocative
@sueimnw.bsky.social
To keep in touch Reading, writing, birds Also at sueimnw.blogspot.com
@jennysanders.bsky.social
Health policy researcher. Mother of psychosis experiencing adult child - Writer and poet - Long Covid - Cat servant - Hen herder. Supporting someone with #psychosis? Let's connect & build community. #health #mentalhealth #psychiatry #covid #poet
@madkane.bsky.social
#Humor #Writer, #Political #Poet: #Limericks, #Haiku, #Rhyme Limerick-Off Host, Robert Benchley Society Humor Award Winner, Retired #Lawyer & #Musician, based in #NYC. #Leguminati #OG #Blogger & still at it here: http://www.madkane.com/
@evanmbedford.bsky.social
Writer of poetry and prose. New England📍#lovecraft, #poe All writings are my own. 🕯️ https://linktr.ee/evanm.bedford
@johnadlam.bsky.social
groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 democratic TCs 🏡 practices of equality 🤝 oral history 🎧 open mic poetry 🎤 Miles Davis 🎺 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org
@rotherwrites.bsky.social
[My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
@derickijohnson.bsky.social
Wanderer, writer, reader Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
@rburrows.bsky.social
Cheshire Novel Prize Shortlist ‘24. 🤞 Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24 Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Yorkshire Times, Motherhood Uncensored and BBC Upload.🏴
@magpine.bsky.social
Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her
@audreyhowitt.bsky.social
Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life Please no DMs. I will block you.
@poetrygal.bsky.social
Immersed in verse. The occasional picture postcard. A glimmer of a broken heart. Poetic licence. I share all kinds of poetry, writing and lyrics - including my own. Images all mine taken on iPhone 15 Pro 📲
@bethbonness.com
Writer (memoir-in-process). Poet. Photographer. Vegan chef. Love exploring the ripple effects of our thought echoes & chasing sunsets and vegan umami. 🌿💜 Interested in the nature of thoughts? https://bethbonness.com
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social
Writing poetry. 2 poetry collections, Living with Love & Time. Short stories Thrice Remembered an Anthology. I love to collaborate with other artists #CollaborationsThatInspire 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
@gaiajane.bsky.social
Poet | Poetry Foundation: bit.ly/3BydKOn | PennSound: bit.ly/3DfAvHk | she/her ❦ In service of the heart.
@lindamaire.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea 🇨🇦🇮🇪 “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
@megkearney.bsky.social
Award-winning author/poet w/ 8 books & 1 forthcoming (kids, teens, adults, megkearney.com); Founding dir, Solstice MFA Low-Residency Program, Lasell U (MA): dedicated to nurturing an inclusive, safe community of writers since ’06.
@authorsmiller.bsky.social
#MentalHealth🧠#LGBTQIA 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #DomesticAbuse💪 #WomensRights♀️ #Teachers🏫#StarTrek🖖#StarWars #authors✍️#poetry #SciFi🛸#Autism #Art🎨#Movies🎬 #DEI #Neurodivergent #HumanRights #Psychology🧠 #Philosophy #Science🧬 #Astronomy 🌌 🚫Porn Crypto/Bitcoin 47 DMs🚫 #Democracy🗽
@bodaciouscopy.bsky.social
Copy Editor who helps authors edit their words with uncommon magic! 🪄 | Writing, editing, publishing tips & more on my blog: bodaciouscopy.com | Poet | Reader of 1,100+ Books | Animal Lover | NO POLITICS | 🇨🇦
@kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
Scrawler of poetry. Normal conversation is way harder. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day
@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can. #vss365 #writingcommunity
@ladyoceane.bsky.social
Poet | Writer | Seeker of beauty in ruin Crafting verses in English & German—where shadows meet light Founder of @themusingsofbella on IG Collaborating across continents and constellations Sometimes I rhyme. Sometimes I haunt.
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
Poet. Poems published in the Interpreter's House, Mslexia, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar. Placed in the Verve 2024, shortlisted Live Canon comp. Pamphlet 'Heronless' forthcoming in 2025.
@julietwest.bsky.social
Author of BEFORE THE FALL (Pan Macmillan, 2014) and THE FAITHFUL (Pan Macmillan, 2017). Poetry in Magma (2024) Hippocrates Prize anthology (2024). Books, gardening, cats. https://www.julietwest.com/
@churchcat.bsky.social
Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
@philippabowe.bsky.social
Flash fiction, poetry, translation, English & French. Published in lots of lovely places online and in print (Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review). Pushcart Prize nomination.
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, and sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) released Spring 2024. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) due out December 2026. Editor in Chief Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press.
@nicoxrette.bsky.social
💔 poet | 🧪emotional alchemist | 📍ohio 🌌 charting love&betrayal through celestial metaphor. 🌙 art is political, and so am i. 🎵 bright eyes + taylor swift on repeat. “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
@lifelovelily22.bsky.social
#Poet📓#Writer✍️ #Kidlit🧒#Indie 📚 #OU Student🧑🎓 From the UK. 🇬🇧 Loves chocolate🍫music🎶and talking too much. 🤐 Everybody needs some Lily in their life! https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08BKWYJC1
@yigruzeltil.bsky.social
I read/write/translate poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world. Details: https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis
@claiyah.bsky.social
Notts-based ecopoet with some words in Magma, Structo, Popshot Quarterly, and Firewords. Co-owner of @flompstudio.bsky.social and creator of https://ecoetry.co.uk/
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine.
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic. Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, May 2025 Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
@write-or-die.bsky.social
Writer Mad as hell and fighting for democracy and sanity. An actual real person, and member of the "Hard Left." Here to resist the freefall of fascism and to spread some good trouble. Feeling "Excessive." 🌊 MARRIED LIKE HARD to Batman and Robin
@indigodreamspub.bsky.social
Poetry publishers rural Devon UK indigodreamspublishing.com Most Innovative Publisher Award 2017 & 2021. Publication, Competitions, Magazines Dawntreader quarterly, Reach Poetry monthly. Editors @ronniegoodyer.bsky.social / @wavelace.bsky.social
@jobratten.bsky.social
Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022). PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. jobratten.co.uk
@deborahharvey.bsky.social
Bristolian. Letters after my name include MA ADHD INFP-T POET. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', pub by Indigo Dreams Publishing. She/her https://theleapingword.com https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
@garrettcarr.bsky.social
My novel The Boy From the Sea is out now with Picador. The Rule of the Land was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. I teach in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, Belfast. www.garrettcarr.net
@awoodley.bsky.social
Books by A. Woodley http://author.to/AmazonUS Crime. Murder. Ghosts. Witches. Tarot. Poetry. Children's & more.
@stridermarcusjones.bsky.social
Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex3/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
@janeburn.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Artist, Maker. Person with Autism. Person with a hEDS. Kindness is so very important. Bios are difficult! I do much writing on https://burnj.substack.com/
@nmoliverpoetry.bsky.social
I'm a husband, dad and reader & writer of poems, from Ireland. I have poems in various journals and a couple of published pamphlets. You can buy them here https://niallmoliverpoetry.bigcartel.com/
@icefloepress.bsky.social
indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social
Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
@mjseyesopened.bsky.social
Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer
@remajyo.bsky.social
Well-being activist, poet, very amateur photographer, oncologist, karateka and gardener. Posts mostly on wellbeing, nature, poetry and garden. ‘Rema rhymes with Emma’.
@deepsouldiver.bsky.social
Chicana writer/poet/English teacher/mental health advocate/holistic energy coach/trauma recovery practitioner/eclectic hedge witch https://linktr.ee/DeepWildCoaching You can also find me at https://bsky.app/profile/deepwildcoaching.bsky.social
@wildsonnets.bsky.social
Poet | Dramatist | Award-Winning Filmmaker The new book, The Wild Sonnets: Volume VII, is available here: www.wildsonnets.com.
@sagustocox.bsky.social
Poetry evangelist, poet, editor of The Mid-Atlantic Review, Gaithersburg, Md. Book Festival poetry programming lead, swim-ma
@jahangiri.us
Award-winning author and poet who draws inspiration from her family, from her own childhood adventures (some of which only happened in her overactive imagination), and from readers of all ages. Texas she/her
@paulmcgrane.bsky.social
81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. See more poetry at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
@selfcoding.bsky.social
Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ]. Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
@katyevansbush.bsky.social
Poet, blogger, freelance editor, UK. I mean there's a lot more obviously. Politics, movies, silly jokes, knitting, the end of the world, etc. My latest book is Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle (CB Editions) & I write at katyevansbush.substack.com
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, former charity consultant. MA for 25 years, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award Best International Fiction. For published poetry see www.elizabethloudon.com. Trustee @waywardprods.bksy.social.
@mariahoey.bsky.social
Author, poet, shortstory writer. Dubliner living in lovely Leitrim. The Last Lost Girl published by Poolbeg, shortlisted for Kate O'Brien Debut Award. On Bone Bridge published by Poolbeg. When They Were Bad available from Amazon. Crazy about dogs!
@gphydeauthor.bsky.social
Poet, writer and reviewer living in Grimsby, UK. Published by Black Bough, Hedgehog, the Dark Poets, Written Off, LIncs & Inks, voidspacezine. Short fiction extensively published by Pure Slush. Always follow back. https://linktr.ee/gphydeauthor
@zoebrooks.bsky.social
Poet - Owl Unbound (published by Indigo Dreams Pub) and Fool's Paradise (Black Eyes Pub). Cheltenham Poetry Festival Online organiser. Website: https://www.zoebrookspoet.co.uk
@deniseohagan.bsky.social
Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
@lindaksienkiewicz.bsky.social
Author, poet, artist, cynical optimist, corgi aficionado, crazy crafter and klutz with just enough ADHD to keep it spinning. 2nd novel LOVE & OTHER INCURABLE AILMENTS coming fall 2026, Regal House Publishing. MI. https://linktr.ee/Lindaksienkiewicz
@kimkat369.bsky.social
Novelist. Author and sometimes poet. Transcendence coming April 2026 from Rowan Prose Publishing. Let’s read through the night. I’ll bring the 🔦you bring the 📚 #horror #thriller #paranormal https://www.katrinakimball.com/
@johnkenny13.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Creative Writing Tutor at the Irish Writers Centre. Poetry: Everyday Poets, Smashing Times, StepAway, Prole. Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Fear the Reaper, Albedo One.
@shaunbarr.bsky.social
Poet, photographer, wildlife gardener, writer. Cumbria, UK. shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
@arminthedoor.bsky.social
Writer of things for money. Writer of other things for fun. Cats, tea, indie music, horror, sci-fi, Forteana, films, books, wordplay. Poet manky. #MDANT Scribbles at thecrone.co.uk
@convivir.bsky.social
Lifelong socialist and writer - poetry, polemics and stories for children. For more socialism - https://criticalmassmag.org/ For more poetry and creative writing - https://penumbrage.com I don't take umbrage. I take up my pen.
@jemface.bsky.social
Poet, working class geek. Star Trek fan/STSP admin. Creative Future Award winner. an othered mother/Motherflux/genderfux out now w. Nine Pens Press. small plates w. broken sleep books. Illegal in America 'cos pronouns. they/them
@bookgaga.bsky.social
Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
@christafairbrother.bsky.social
Gulfport, FL poet laureate ☀️ (she/her) chronic illness warrior writing embodied poems 💪 Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022) I love to connect with poets & poetry lovers Lover of tea and avocados 🥑 christafairbrotherwrites.com
@alifeofshortlives.bsky.social
From poems to chapters, one short life at a time. Award winning haiku and tanka poet. Winner of 2023 Touchstone Award for haibun. Lover of small, wild places and the other-than-human world. A Shropshire lass now settled in North Yorkshire.
@coliverpoet.bsky.social
'Dressing Gown' (Dreich), Ilkley Lit. Festival 'New Northern Poet'. 'Big Ideas By The Sea' Festival Poet 2024. South Cliff Gardens' Writer in Residence. She/her
@maryearnshaw.bsky.social
Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer. Lives on England's northwest coast. Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
@harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social
Poet, Co-Artistic Director, Fully Booked Theatre, Translator | RLF Fellow, Newcastle University | CW MSt Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender Prize, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers Award | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk
@scotttrudell.bsky.social
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
@corrintachibana.bsky.social
Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022). Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review. Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
@aliskjones.bsky.social
Teacher, photographer, poet. I write a nature haiku every day as an act of creativity. All photos taken on walks around where I live. Interested in fairytales, folklore, ecology, liminal places, and the more than human. Two published pamphlets.
@stumcpherson.bsky.social
Prize Winning Poet | END CEREMONIES via BrokenSleepBooks| Graphic Artist at TRIED / FAILED www.stumcpherson.com www.triedfailed.com
@ogre.red
Red Ogre Review is an indie press for poetry, music, and art based in California and the UK. We're fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for nonprofit activities and a member of CLMP. Subs open! https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
@toddtemkin.bsky.social
Poet, author, Patagonian alpaca farmer. A Wisconsin boy living in Chile between Valparaiso & Futaleufú. Please don’t ask about book #3. It’s coming. All llamas, alpacas & Icelandic horses are Green Bay Packers fans. No DMs. No porn. No crypto.
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@benjamingorman.bsky.social
Author, poet, former teacher, publisher at Not A Pipe Publishing, host of Writers Not Writing, intersectional feminist, anti-racist, SFWA member, (he/him). https://linktr.ee/benjamingorman
@cliveculverhouse.bsky.social
Poet published in Popshot Magazine and The Dirigible Balloon. Plough Prize poetry long list. Ret paramedic. Lincs, UK.
@topherpoet.bsky.social
Working class, poet and inconsolable Cardiffian. My new and selected poems,’Sex on Toast’ is available from Parthian.
@lucylepchani.bsky.social
Adult Education tutor, writer, poet. Gardening, ethnobotany, community radio, etcetera. Devon, UK.
@lawrencemoore.bsky.social
Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated. The Breadcrumb Trail out now with @janecornwell.bsky.social 🧚 UK link: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D6DNXHG4 Vegan, BLM
@juliandobson.bsky.social
Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
@louisepoetical.bsky.social
Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Award-winning collection 'These are her thoughts as she falls' https://shorturl.at/HFOg0 Winner of Hedgehog Press Proper Poetry Pamphlet prize to be published 2025!
@johncraigwhite.bsky.social
🇺🇦 Poet, nature lover, Oxfordshire-based, County Derry native. Magma Poetry Prize 2024, Commended. iOTA Shot Awards Winner 2023 for Attachments (Templar, June 2024): https://templarpoetry.com/collections/templar-pamphlets-1/products/attachments
@john1811.bsky.social
Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
@greeningpoet.bsky.social
British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
@jennypagdin.bsky.social
Poet - The Snow Globe (Nine Arches 2024, poetry winner East Anglian Book Awards), pamphlet Caldbeck (2017, shortlisted Mslexia). Bridport shortlist 2023, Café Writers committee
@lizziekemball.bsky.social
♊ 27 | She/Her | Writer | Poet | Reader 📍 Cardiff, Wales. ☕ From the Potteries. 🎓 Cardiff Uni MA | Warwick BA 🖋️ Writing a novel very slowly. 📢 Talking about words, books & bakes. 📙 Bookstagram: devouring.words