Poets Starter pack Part 2
Some more poets I've found!
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@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social
@kristinwrites.bsky.social
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS Sufferer. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. Cofounder of #CripCoop. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @whirligiglit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
@mishiepoet.bsky.social
Poet | Mental Health Advocate | Dreamer | Inaugural Poet Laureate of Ellensburg, WA
@plpoetry.bsky.social
Pushcart & BoTN nominated Poet 1st collection: "An Array of Vapour" with TSL Pubs: https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/ 2nd: "A Handful of Prayers" with Wipf & Stock. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385204373/a-handful-of-prayers
@daydreamacademy.bsky.social
Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
@alanparry83.bsky.social
Award Winning Writer Spoken-Word Artist EiC @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Workshop Facilitator Podcast & Events Host Lecturer in English https://shorturl.at/gxRbM
@andywilliamson.com
Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
@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
@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
@shereelapuma.bsky.social
I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
@colourofpoetry.bsky.social
Author of The Places We Empty (Kelsay Books), The Jolt and Breath Ablaze: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, Volumes I and II (Bottlecap Press), Rooming with Elephants (Kelsay Books, 2025) 🏳️🌈💜https://www.julieweisspoet.com
@benwilko85.bsky.social
Writer, poet, critic. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Liverpool FC fan. Likes a jog.
@lindamckenna.bsky.social
Poet. Two poetry collections with Doire Press, 'Four Thousand Keys' (2024), 'In the Museum of Misremembered Things' (2020). Lives in Downpatrick. Man Utd fan
@nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social
#Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
@ninaparmenter.bsky.social
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Lover-not-Fighter-in-Chief at Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Pushcart-nominated poet, short story writer, and author of children's fiction. Winner of Black Bough Poetry Chapbook contest, shortlisted for Broken Spine Arts Chapbook contest. Book of the Month at The East Ridge Review. Widely published.
@jonathantotman.bsky.social
Poet and Clinical Psychologist. Collections "Night Shift" and "The Sessions" both published by Pindrop Press. Blogs on poetry, therapy and mental health: https://www.jonathantotman.co.uk/
@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social
I’m a poet ✍🏻 Photography 📷 Latina 🇩🇴 She/Her 🪽 Plant mom/kid mom 🪴 Lover of the moon 🌙 Bibliophile/logophile ✨ Capricorn ♑️🧿 Long Live the Resistance 🔻 🚫 Religious
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
@murielvieux.bsky.social
#TheAmericanHaitianPoet #RaisingTheBoy BlackWoman Allergic Diabetic Dyslexic LONER YOU will be uncomfortable! I don't do 100% Agreements. Paypal.me/murielvieux - to help haiti.
@cherry-bakewell.bsky.social
Music-loving, LFC-supporting, strength-training, communications director, PCD, poet and mischief maker.
@bettyv.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Poet, writer-lover of haiku and all forms of short poetry-mostly ignored by the 'serious' poetry community : ) I won't answer DM's unless I know you
@rayayarbrough.bsky.social
I write poetry, short fiction/non-fiction, I’m a singer and a jazz misinterpreter, I sing the theme on that Outlander show, and many other things…. https://linktr.ee/RayaYarbrough?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=48d22a57-c0d5-4052-9177-7af281db9edd
@rjhamptonjr.bsky.social
BlueSky looks like a great place for the Arts. I thought I would make an account and check in from time to time for inspiration / motivation. Musician, Artist, Writer, Poet, Music Producer, Photographer, Actor, Mountain Man & Hermit. Content ©️ me⤵️
@josephfasano.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
@dcswanson.bsky.social
Rhyme-writer and children's book author. Posting daily rhymes at www.dcswanson.com
@amandagorman.bsky.social
Poet, Activist and Model. Advocate for gender justice, racial equality, and the environment. https://amandagormanbooks.com/
@poetguygabe.bsky.social
Live on my sailboat. Navigating beautiful challenges. There's a time to hold on and a time to let go. Navy vet my posts https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3p3lavk3p47dauzx5lioteun/feed/aaael34z6nm2q Host #7syllablesentence Created @blueskyrelay.bsky.social
@shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social
https://shelaghrowanlegg.com Film scholar | Filmmaker | Poet | Contributing Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social | Programmer, Wench Film Festival | OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
@amandawrites.bsky.social
Creator of Worlds • Time Thief • Realm Traveler • Gallows Humorist • Arachnophile #PoetrySky #MusicSky #WriterSky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gmjq26xgey57zfhvfrruhyma/feed/aaamsu4bzqwfa
@thegooddalek.bsky.social
25 🏳️🌈 Master Philologist 2024🎓 Poetry Index: instagram.com/poetrybreath/ cultivating a new following
@carmellapoetry.bsky.social
✨Hedgehog Poetry Pamphlet Winner✨ Honourable Mention Dark Poets Prize/BBC/Dream Catcher Mag/The Dirigible Balloon/Dark Poets Club/Suburban Witchcraft/OTB/Wishbone Words/Harlow Stanza Founder/Poetry Society Rep🏆Judge Harlow Open 2025🏆🖤 90's🫶🏻Beatles
@msiagirl.bsky.social
Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
@jasonjwillis.bsky.social
Equalist, geek, reader, poet, and lover of art. Author of System Apocalypse Liberty: Head of the Class Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0CWPKZDG6 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558185905470
@heatherwastie.bsky.social
Poet, singer songwriter, keyboard & accordion player, actor, Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2015/16 https://wastiesspace.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/heatherwastie
@tracymar.bsky.social
Online instructor in continuing education (creative writing, literature, personal development). Poet. Author of 4 books. Counselor/consultant. Read classics, international, quality sci fi/fantasy, interfaith books. Love nature photography, music.
@mamajoules.bsky.social
Short-form poet, writer, mom of 3, naturalist. She/her. Likes dogs, kids, nature, travel, haiku, science, art, & the Oxford comma. Fond of semi-colons & the interrobang. https://linktr.ee/julieblosskelsey
@thepoetanne.bsky.social
Poet, Cat Lady, lover of books, advocate, adoptee, and autistic AF. I try.
@selwynmilborrow.bsky.social
Academic, poet, author, journalist, podcaster, YouTuber.
@fernaski.bsky.social
a poet, a thinker, a dreamer. inspired by the world around me. "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social
Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Co-Editor @thewingedmoon substack magazine. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple.INFJ. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
@oyoguhito.bsky.social
Poet and photographer my daily photoblog and poetry blogs: http://jimyoung14.blogspot.com http://baitthelines.blogspot.com https://haikueye.blogspot.com
@alexschottenpoetry.bsky.social
Poet | Advocate https://linktr.ee/liftedpoetssociety Author of “I Learned How to Love from Heroin” & “Tomorrow Stole Today”
@robertjtiess.bsky.social
Published poet/author/writer Poetry/nature/library/education advocate Musician artist philosopher Career in libraries Married to Sandra Sprague Books: + Gracious Nature + May We Learn from the Earth + The Humbling & Other Poems robertjtiess.wordpress.com
@archfaerie.bsky.social
Sapphic & 23 years old (she/him) I'm a writer, poet, and sometimes artist Ask me about my OCs or Victorian flower language 💕 Icon Art Of Two Lesbian Goats Kissing by @dxhn.bsky.social 🇵🇸 from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
@maryjoburkhard.bsky.social
The Alchemy. Intuitive channeler focused on personal and collective transformation. My work incorporates micropoetry and art to bring forward messages and information in a way that centers them into our human experience.
@beyondbalu.bsky.social
Co-creator and lead designer of The Nuadan Chronicles, photographer, poet, voice actor, etc.
@hopeswhisperpoetry.bsky.social
Poet & writer ✍️ sharing words to wash the worries away, find the 🌈through the heaviest rain☔. Even in the darkest of days, Hope Gently Whispers you could try again. (Mum to an Angel, and Author of Finley's Footprints 👣)
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@revrachelmann.bsky.social
Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Neurodiverse. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024 Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton 15 Books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@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
@poetcamp.bsky.social
I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo *And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5! PoetCamp.com
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
@madeleinefwhite.bsky.social
#poet: #horseandgirl & #maidenmothercrone collections + editor #writeon magazine + #author #Motheroffloods. Passionate about creating safe digital, physical and natural places for people and their stories. Anglo-German, born in Saarbrücken.
@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/
@tara-a-elliott.bsky.social
Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
@blossoms21.bsky.social
Hello, I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes and human relationships shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 my books are available here pennysharman.co.uk
@tonywilliams.bsky.social
Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
@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
@northseanavigator.bsky.social
Poet: 'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024) | Alpine Fellowship Prize SL '23 | Ginkgo Prize SL '22 & '21 Composer: North Sea Navigator | Holmes + atten Ash Art-photographer: Paul atten Ash Bristol, Europe https://campsite.bio/northseanavigator
@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
@rhiannonoliver.bsky.social
Children's Poet, Actress & Workshop Leader. South Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg. Debut children's poetry collection publishing Spring 26 with Firefly Press Actress represented by Shelley Barrett Management Happiest eating chips by the sea
@samc4rr.bsky.social
PhD candidate: chronic illness embodiment through poetry. Poet, flash fiction. Disabled Tales, Arc, Acumen, Room, Storms Journal, Consilience, Corporeal lit mags. Acronym collector: ME/CFS, HSD, MdDS, ADHD
@plsoc.bsky.social
Official account for the Philip Larkin Society at PhilipLarkin.com. Why not become a member?
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
@poetryliving.bsky.social
Sharing poetry. "Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us." (Walt Whitman) #MaryMonday #Hughesday #WhitmanWednesday Store: redbubble.com/people/PoetryLiving/shop
@ralphdartford.bsky.social
Poet and human. 3rd collection, ‘House Anthems’ out now with Valley Press. Studying PHD at the University of Huddersfield. Editor at www.northerngravy.com
@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
@petegreensolo.com
poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com
@sarahleavesley.bsky.social
Prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of 9 poetry titles, 2 novellas & a poetry-play. More at http://sarah-james.co.uk. Also, editor at V. Press, award-winning poetry & flash fiction. (Profile pic by Gary Carr.)
@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.
@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!
@sharlark.bsky.social
Writer, poet, photographer, editor, workshop leader, Stanza Rep, occasional anthology publisher, linguist. Loves Wales, nature/countryside and above all God. Poetry books: Interned at the Food Factory, Indigo Dreams, 2019 Dualities, Hedgehog Press, 2020
@karenjanecannon.bsky.social
Poet & Author. PhD’ing at Uni of Southampton (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel, ‘Powder Monkey’ (W&N & Phoenix). Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. Mslexia finalist 2017. Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
@ffteague.bsky.social
Poet: From Pittville to Paradise (2022), Interruptus: A Poetry Year (2025)
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity UK Poetry #poets #ukpoets
@mattnicholson365.bsky.social
Poet, performer, pedant. One quarter of The 4 Johns. For more info and to buy my books, please visit and browse www.mattpoet.com (hoping to have a fifth collection out in 2025 so please feel free to invite me to read at your poetry events xxx)
@simonmaddrell.bsky.social
Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer. Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025. Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026. https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
@spiropoetry.bsky.social
I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.
@pamthompson240.bsky.social
Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography. Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press). Hawthornden Fellow.
@davethepitt.bsky.social
#PerformancePoet, #playwright, #writer and #performer. 1/3rd of @pandemonialists.bsky.social. #AssociateArtist at Arena #Theatre, #Wolverhampton. #Discordian: Rev Tribble Flax #WorkingClassCreative #LGBTQI+ #Ally #Socialist #Woke #ActuallyAutistic
@traceyrhys.bsky.social
Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it). 'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
@vronchariot.bsky.social
scruffy irreverent disabled fat queer pagan socialist anarchist pro-trans feminist polyam neurodivergent nonbinary poet. prob older than you think. they/them.♿
@amandaearl.bsky.social
she/her: sharing Ottawa -area literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl. NO DMS. No "Only Fans"!
@magmc89.bsky.social
I’m a poet writing my first book. Pushcart Prize nominee. Please follow me here to keep up with my stories: http://www.maggiemccombsauthor.com 🚫 DM unless it’s business 👩💼 🧿