Some Poets I Like
These are some of the poets I like
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@tracepeterson.bsky.social
@susanmschultz.bsky.social
Poet (in prose), Lilith walker, Cards fan, photographer. Recents: _Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox); _Meditations (Dec 2019 - Dec 2020)_ (Wet Cement). _I and Eucalyptus_ (Lavender Ink), _More Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox). Lives in Hawai`i.
@silliman.bsky.social
Poet in Springfield, PA. Lecturer @ U of Pennsylvania, Author of 50+ books My blog had 5 million visits before it was unilaterally deleted by Gurgle (a copy can be found at the Electronic Poetry Center) rsillima@yahoo.com
@anonstuniva.bsky.social
ANONSTUNIVA Research Associates of Forest Park West (Queens) Mets baseball optimist Beyond the Valley of Ashes - https://anonstuniva.substack.com More about me: https://cuny.is/kuszai
@ourweather.bsky.social
Writer most recently of “I want to start by saying,” "Portals" (with Maureen Seaton), “Our Weather Our Sea,” “Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash.” linktr.ee/samuelace
@xenoglossic.bsky.social
poet/documentarist/devotee of literary, scholarly, visual & performance arts UChicago prof battling assaults of planetary life 1 word at a time Columbia: Poetry After Barbarism; Killing the Moonlight Atelos: Republic of Exit 43 UChi: Locomotrix oikost.com
@amyberko.bsky.social
Author of Tender Points and Gravitas • Cohost of Light Jacket, San Francisco's roving outdoor reading series • Working on a novel that I like to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project • she/they • amyberko.com
@imogenxtian.bsky.social
STEMMY THINGS (Nightboat Books ‘22) 🖤 transsexual punk poet garden goth 🖤 she///they
@susanlewispoet.bsky.social
Author of Zoom, winner of the Washington Prize, & 10 other books & chapbooks, founder & editor-in-chief of Posit Journal, co-host of KGB Monday Night Poetry: susanlewis.net
@cronepoetics.bsky.social
Three cats. Five poetry collections. Wearing all black since 1983. #cronepoetics
@bamenke.bsky.social
Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism
@l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social
The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
@wallegrezza.bsky.social
Poet, editor, teacher, hiker, bass player. Curator of impractical slogans, archivist of transliterated images, wrangler of imaginary water buffalos.
@juliecarr.bsky.social
Books: Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts; Real Life: An Installation; 100 Notes on Violence; Someone Shot my Book. RAG. &others. Ac-job: Chair of WGST; teach poetry; CUB. juliecarrpoet.com; counterpathpress.org; aprilinstitute.org.
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@weaverrew.bsky.social
Teaching and Learning Consultant at Kennesaw State's CETL; writer; pedagogy activist; metacognition/walks/food/gardens/service/humans; she/her. Appropriately sweary, opinions mine. talkingteachingwriting.com
@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 • 🇵🇸
@seminewblack.bsky.social
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
@crschmidt.net
Software engineer (currently at Google). Founding member, Alphabet Workers Union. Advocate for sustainable cities through urban development. E-bike evangelist. Currently in Somerville, MA; formerly in Cambridge, MA.
@sadqueer4life.bsky.social
poet / lovergirl https://open.substack.com/pub/jenespinoza/p/inversion?r=54m0ma&utm_medium=ios
@juliaserano.bsky.social
author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
@cherwords.bsky.social
Poet, Editor @Pangyrus, Professor @MassArt, Literary Eventmaker, Lagging Translator, Lifelong Learner. Will you read my book They Can Take It Out (Word Works)? https://linktr.ee/cherylclarkvermeulen
@nicolebrett.bsky.social
Poet and comms consultant. Author of dear Elsie / seltzer, Glass Actress, Getting Lucky. & others.
@orchidtierney.bsky.social
Ph.D. award-losing poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
@timothyliupoet.bsky.social
Poète Maudit. DOWN LOW AND LOWDOWN: BEDSIDE BOTTOM-FEEDER BLUES; LUMINOUS DEBRIS: NEW & SELECTED LEGERDEMAIN (1992-2017). www.timothyliu.net
@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo scholar 🏰 edits at IHLR, JCMS 📝 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️ jennessahester.com
@jamesallenhall.bsky.social
Poet. Essayist. Co-host of Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry and Culture. All opinions are my own.
@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social
🛸| Winner of the Alice James Award, IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY (2021) | 20 Atomic Sonnets (2020) | turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (2019) | @TSP_Writing
@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.
@rykaaoki.bsky.social
Science-fiction writer and stuff. ✨🎻🍩🚀🎵💖 Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
@ekswitaj.bsky.social
http://www.elizabethkateswitaj.net/ 📚The Articulations, Kernpunkt Press http://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p43/articulationsamouroboros.html 📚The Bringers of Fruit, 11:11 Press https://1111press.com/the-bringers-of-fruit 🇲🇭Majuro, Marshall Islands
@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (forthcoming 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.
@rvtrousdale.bsky.social
Poetry, criticism, tomfoolery, rabble-rousing. She/her. Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (criticism, Oxford University Press); Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem (poetry, Wesleyan University Press)
@tylervile.bsky.social
writer, performer, disability advocate, aspiring filmmaker, adaptive movement nerd, sometimes astrologer, sometimes zinester, sometimes punk singer She/her https://tylervile.itch.io/ https://substack.com/@tylervile https://letterboxd.com/Tylervile/
@kjpgarcia.bsky.social
Ace Afro-Absurdist Juyorican diarist, monologuer, and pansy. (xe/xyr // one)
@hassens.bsky.social
Human Writer Author of sky journal, Consolation Snacks, Salem. Feminist, progress-ive, freak of nature. she/her. I try to be useful.
@robinreagler.bsky.social
🌈💫💙Poet, College Professor, author of Into The The (Backlash, 2020), Night Is This Anyway (Lily, 2022), and The Always (FlowerSong, forthcoming 2025).
@sandmansimonds.bsky.social
Poet, Runner & Lifter of Weights, Magician Vermont Book Award in Fiction 2023 for Assia. 9 books of poetry 😁 Burning Oracle (poetry-ish) coming 2026 Wesleyan University Press
@kathryncowles.bsky.social
Poet/Artist, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Modern Poets Prize, forthcoming), Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed) Editor “Beyond Category”@SenecaReview HWS Prof Trias Writers Residency Director www.kathryncowles.com
@tmziniuk.bsky.social
Editor, writer, media-maker, parent. Past lives in activism and community radio. Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV. By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
@wrenhanks.bsky.social
Poet (Lily-livered, 2021), managing editor (smoke and mold journal), and elasmobranch enthusiast. All views my own.
@brodyparrish.bsky.social
📚The Patient is an Unreliable Historian 📚Boyish 🦝poet. 🦝prof. 🦝queer south babyy (they/them) 💄FOR A GOOD TIME CALL (918) 516-5195 poem/recording updated wkly; leave vm back or txt to join the fun. let's get weird. let's get cozy. 💋
@slanders.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian. suelanders.com (she/her) WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE—a love letter to NYC’s subways, trees, and waterways—out now from Roof Books. Buy on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/110446/9798991501101
@sommerb.bsky.social
Poet who/which/that writes about art. All opinions expressed are your own. www.sommerbrowning.com
@floweroid.bsky.social
gay heaven is a dance floor but i can’t relax https://linktr.ee/floweroid
@bcmearc.bsky.social
City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words here and there, a couple BAE notables, etc. https://nodiff.com/
@amishtrivedi.bsky.social
Poet-errant. Professor at the U of Delaware. Latest: FuturePanic http://www.coimpress.com/books/futurepanic.shtml amishtrivedi.com
@wordgarbler.bsky.social
I make podcasts (on MST3K and “great books” and a weird game show) and make music and garble words (as poems, as crosswords) and generally try to be helpy. Pronouns: 🤷 || megaphonic.fm chrispiuma.com
@poetesss.bsky.social
Artist-Writer, Art-enabler, Poet, Musician, Collage poetry oracle, Chaos Bubbe 🔮💐 ANMLY literary blog's 'Poetic Conversations' column editor. MFA in Poetry, Lesley University 2010 (she/her) 🌈📿🪷 linktr.ee/poetesss & jojoLazar.com
@bradrichard.bsky.social
Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press).
@aditimachado.bsky.social
Poet of EMPORIUM and SOME BEHEADINGS (both Nightboats). Does translation, essay writing, teaching, gardening, wine consumption.
@mongibeddu.bsky.social
Poet, editor, scholar in Maine. Now available: Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (https://nightboat.org/book/nice/). Free 🇵🇸; end the genocide now!
@joannafuhrman.bsky.social
Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
@sbrookcorfman.bsky.social
I believe in the utility of suffering but this is a bit much // poet sbrookcorfman.com
@hadeejasouffle.bsky.social
living empanada, fortunately a poet, unfortunately an academic
@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
@reggieh.bsky.social
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” — Anonymous Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
@nikkireimer.bsky.social
Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga. Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023) Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
@divinetailor.bsky.social
poet-artist-fool. aging, tr🔼ns, qu3️⃣3️⃣r, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they. i do not often follow back, so don’t follow me with that expectation.🚨DO NOT ADD TO STARTER PACKS WITHOUT CONSENT!🚨 http://www.jaybesemer.net
@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
@kbeninato.bsky.social
Writer, words in The New Republic, NOLA, Huffington Post, Earth Island. Nonprofit co-founder. Was publicist for legendary Dr. John; now working with badasses artists. Grammy member. https://karendaltonbeninato.com
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
she + they art historian poet Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices U Delaware + Philly co-founder of the journal Selva https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
@roseknapp.bsky.social
Experimental Poetess Sound Artist • Philosophy Φ Transfemme Androgyne She/They Artist Site: Roseknapp.weebly.com Poetry: lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
@sarahmdowling1.bsky.social
Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE. My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
@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
@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
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@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/
@tracepeterson.bsky.social
Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013), & a new book forthcoming from Saturnalia in 2025 | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her tracepeterson.com