Ricardo D. Velásquez's Starter Pack
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@velasquez.bsky.social
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@smashfizzle.bsky.social
Author of the bestselling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Podcast host. I deserve it all. https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@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
@alwayscoffee.bsky.social
Writer, poet (7-time Rhysling Award nominee), editor, nerd, wielder of sarcasm, coffee vampire. Supergirl meets Buffy meets Gilmore Girls. she/her Rep: @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social header by @lizlee.bsky.social Web: alitrotta.com alwayscoffee7@gmail.com
@versobooks.bsky.social
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@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).
@tacobellquarterly.org
Taco Bell Quarterly is a Literary Magazine more prestigious than the New Yorker and Paris Review. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
@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
@davidnaimon.bsky.social
Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Podcast: tinhouse.com/podcasts YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
@madverse.bsky.social
This profile is toast. Follow me here: micropoetry.bsky.social MadVerse.com poem poet poetry book Dada Surrealism experimental Beat haiku nature wildlife animals Boulder Denver Colorado kindness Christus Super Omnia
@sadqueer4life.bsky.social
poet / lovergirl https://open.substack.com/pub/jenespinoza/p/inversion?r=54m0ma&utm_medium=ios
@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.
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
They lifted me into the sun again / And packed my empty skull with cinnamon.
@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
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile. collections: Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (UPK, Oct 14, 2025)
@therumpus.net
Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community. http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
@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.
@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/
@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
@a-woo.bsky.social
Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing) at @ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her. Words here = mine alone.
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open May and June. Posts by @amorak.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org
@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.
@smokelong.bsky.social
Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters.
@publisherslunch.bsky.social
Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
@popelizbet.bsky.social
Attorney, poet, do-gooder, they/them or ka/kan. will demand your poems and hopefully stop your abuser. Unapologetic chicken and waffles, fake goths hate kan, Disco Janet, pope by consent of the governed, not Kathryn Tewson
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom + poet in AL FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Former k12/YA librarian + archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History Posts don’t reflect my institutions Read bell hooks 🔗 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY. linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
@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. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@puppi.bsky.social
Visual Artist • Model • She / They ♡ 🌈⚔️👾🏰⭐️🍄💕 no minors I love animals, art, tech, science, metaphysics, memes, plants, video games & making people smile www.puppi.club
@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
@teresempierre.bsky.social
Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur Society. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, FIYAH, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her. www.teresemasonpierre.com Author of MYTH, House of Anansi, 2025 https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth
@flakphoto.news
Hi! I’m Andy, a curator + writer in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I study images and ideas, and in my spare time, I publish FlakPhoto Digest, a newsletter for photography people. 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news/about 📸 https://www.instagram.com/flakphoto
@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
💙 Fall in love with poetry again 📩 Submit poems, book reviews & fever dreams 💰We pay (money & attn) 📖 Read it & weep (or laugh hysterically idk) 👇🏾 ➡️ linktr.ee/onlypoemsmag
@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
@amystuber.com
Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024) Flash Editor: splitlipthemag.com
@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/
@masonjarpress.bsky.social
A publisher of prose and poetry based in beautiful Baltimore, MD. http://masonjarpress.com/ banner pic by Stephanie Gibson
@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.
@rika99.bsky.social
poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal Valentines Editor @ Honey Literary
@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com
@eldiagram.bsky.social
A journal of text, art, and schematic. Kicking it since 1999. Published by New Michigan Press. Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social
@bsky.app
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@velasquez.bsky.social
—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator. He / Him. 18+ ig: 𝚛𝚍.𝚟𝚌 tw: ridvec ➡ https://savepalestine.carrd.co/ 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rdvc/ 🔗 https://instagram.com/rd.vc/