The Poetry Center
@ThePoetryCenter
organizing readings talks performances at SF State & public venues since 1954. Public audio+video online archive, then to now, + events linked below
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D. A. Powell
@Powell_DA
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. https://t.co/5Px1CB83Uw
Hanif Abdurraqib
@NifMuhammad
writer of some books // curator: https://t.co/VCkHrHdn1j // Ohioan
Harmony Holiday
@Harmony_Holiday
https://t.co/ThyceTA8sD
Patricia Smith
@pswordwoman
Academy Chancellor, Ruth Lilly Prize, Pulitzer finalist, Kingsley Tufts, LA Times Book Prize, NAACP Image Award, Poetry Prof @ Princeton
Johannes Göransson
@JohannesGoranss
Immigrant, writer, translator, professor, editor. He/him. More info here: https://t.co/bxi0Qbnndz
Nikki Wallschlaeger
@nikkimwalls
poet ♍♍♋ Waterbaby (2021) Hold Your Own (2024) @CopperCanyonPress bookings @shipman_agency 🍉
City Lights Books
@CityLightsBooks
A landmark independent bookstore & publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, & progressive politics. | RIP LF: 1919-2021
Academy of American Poets
@POETSorg
Poem-a-Day, #NationalPoetryMonth & more, celebrating 90 years as the nation's leading champion of poets, poetry, and the work of poetry organizations.
Zoé
@ztsamudzi
she/her, mwana wevhu | writer, associate editor w/ @Parapraxis_Mag, assistant prof of photography at RISD
☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥
@brandonshimoda
We're all the contemplatives of an ongoing apocalypse. —Etel Adnan
Rodrigo Toscano
@Toscano200
Poet, Rhetor, Dialogist. Author of eleven books. National Poetry Series. Best Experimental Poetry. International Best Latino Book Award (honorable mention).
💫 Poetry Essays Fiction 💫
@SandmanSimonds
Professor, Poems:Triptychs (Wave, 2022)+7 others, Novel-Assia (Noemi, March 2023). Vermont Book Award Finalist in Fiction. Working on a book of weird essays.
Brenda Hillman
@brendalhillman
poet, teacher at Saint Mary's College of California
Danez
@Danez_Smif
Black Person/Poet (they/them)
Anselm Berrigan
@wystandoll
contemporary primevalist, with poems
Alice Notley
@alice_notley
wendy trevino
@prolpo
author of Brazilian Is Not a Race & Cruel Fiction.
Jeffrey Pethybridge
@jeffpethybridge
Force Drift (Tupelo Press 2025); STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE (Noemi 2013) | Director of Summer Writing Program @kerouacschool @naropau | Poets are graffiti
aria آریا
@AriaAber
author of the novel GOOD GIRL (@hogarthbooks, 2025) & HARD DAMAGE (2019). Whiting Award. contributing editor @yalereview 🐣 rep'd by @thecleggagency
AllenGinsbergEstate
@Ginsbergpoem
Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
Counterpath
@CpPress
PRESS + FREE BOOKSTORE + FOOD BANK + PERFORMANCE SPACE
Sarah Wasserman
@SarahLWasserman
Mostly cats & coyotes. Professing English and Material Culture at UD. Views & f-bombs my own.
Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered
Helping 🫵 make sense of #HigherEducation. Follow us for the latest news, opinions, jobs, and resources. Send #HigherEd news and tips via DM.
jo aurelio giardini
@downevent
bibliophile in baltimore short forays on ephemeral literatures on IG: mimeodrome
Munir Nuseibah
@MunirNuseibah
Marc Lamont Hill
@marclamonthill
CUNY Presidential Professor • Host of @BET News, @TheGrio, @AJUpFront, and Coffee & Books • Owner of @UncleBobbies • Sixers Fanatic • Philly Born • ΚΑΨ MADE
FREE PALESTINE
@ericakhsu
🕯An official apology & justice is owed to the Palestinian people & hostage families by governments who led & aided these massacres & crimes against humanity.
W. Todd Kaneko
@ToddKaneko
Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
Heather Leigh
@wishimage
Musician, Artist and Gardener
Blank Forms
@BlankForms
A curatorial platform focused on preservation/presentation of experimental performance.
Brynn Saito
@BrynnSaito
Poet | Assoc. Professor @FresnoStateMFA
J Paul Leonard Library
@sfstatelibrary
Official Twitter of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University #jpllibrary
Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj
@maider_vang
Afterland (2017), Yellow Rain (2021) @GraywolfPress | First Book Award, Lenore Marshall Prize @POETSorg | Pulitzer Prize Finalist | Asst Prof @FresnoStateMFA
Shelley Wong
@shhelleywong
poet / AS SHE APPEARS @YesYesBooks longlisted for 2022 @nationalbook award @lambdaliterary award winner 🌈 she/her
Rusty Morrison
@Whethering
poet, co-publisher of Omnidawn
Thulani Davis
@temne
Professor #votelikeablackwoman
trip hop tracy chapman
@surrealsermons
gratitude gyal /// they/them
Periscope
@PeriscopePoetry
An imprint from A Midsummer Night's Press (@AMidsummerNight) dedicated to publishing #poetry in #translation by women writers. #womenintranslation
Deep Vellum
@DeepVellum
Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Visit our offices inside @deepvellumbooks
Matana Roberts
@MatanaRoberts
multidisciplinary sound artist etc,they/them,globalist…we talk art over here …born free. keep yr head ☝🏿DM Free zone #neuromancer
Kashkul
@KashkulOfficial
Kashkul is a research, preservation, and translation collective composed of students and scholars based at @auisofficial
Liam Curley
@liammcurley
Book wrangler. Hometown: Wallkill, New York. He / him.
Barbara Smith
@TheBarbaraSmith
#FreePalestine #RussiaOutOfUkraine #CombaheeTaughtMe Member: #NationalWritersUnion Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 🌹
adriennemareebrown
@adriennemaree
'Become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion.' - Camus // booking&contact: https://t.co/bmMvvSo0I5!
Emily Lee Luan
@_emilyluan
poet • 回 / RETURN (@NightboatBooks 2023) • I WATCH THE BOUGHS (@Poetry_Society) • she/her
Nikay Paredes
@nikayparedes
Sugbuanon 🇵🇭 | chapbooks RECLAMATIONS & WE WILL SEE THE SCATTER | Programs Director @POETSorg | Co-founding editor @TLDTDjournal | opinions & tweets my own
Fresno State Creative Writing
@FresnoStateMFA
In the heart of California, the Fresno State MFA program is home to @thenormalschool magazine, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and lots of #FresnoWriters
mirene arsanios
@mirene_arsanios
into friends and lovers, fighting and fighters, editor of Makhzin journal, author of The Autobiography of a Language (Futurepoem), أم لوكا
Charles Bernstein
@ChrlesBernstein
Topsy-Turvy, Near/Miss, Pitch of Poetry, Recalculating, Attack of the Difficult Poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven
oki
@okinogical
poet of insect goo
Deema K. Shehabi
@DeemaShehabi
Palestinian poet, author of poetry collection, Thirteen Departures from the Moon @Press53, co-author of Diaspo/Renga with Marilyn Hacker @HollandParkPres.
David Harvey | @davidharvey.bsky.social
@profdavidharvey
Professor, @GC_CUNY. Director of Research, @cpcp_gc. New book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Tweets from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
David Grubbs
@blackfaurest
Drag City recording artist, Duke UP author, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Distinguished Professor.
Rizvana Bradley
@rizvanabradley
UC Berkeley Prof. | Terra Visiting Professor, Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität | Author of ANTEAESTHETICS | @stanfordpress
edna bonhomme, phd
@jacobinoire
Writer • A History of the World in Six Plagues @simonschuster (2025) & Co-editor of After Sex (2023) •✍🏾 @lrb @thenation @guardian • Agent @ianbonaparte
Jennifer Shyue
@jshyue
translator & tea lover /// words @AGNIMagazine @lithub @Poetry_Daily &c /// books: https://t.co/hhlIYThljW, https://t.co/AbALKpcmAM
Observations of Deviance
@AtBestIsKorny
'Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple.' @thewiremagazine — Radio DJ @GTDRadio @WFMU
Kiki Petrosino
@kikipetrosino
Author of Bright (2022), White Blood (2020) & three other books; professor; maker of poems & small snacks
This Long Century
@thislongcentury
A growing archive of personal insights from artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, musicians. Started in 2008. Second home https://t.co/lzEc0Yl8eK
all-incomplete
@All__Incomplete
530 Year Perspective: profound love and deep anger. We is not us organize the reckoning. Patience 😷 〰
Pamenar Press
@pamenarpress
Pamenar Press is an independent press producing books of poetry, hybrid and critical writing forms which are cross-cultural and multilingual.
Adrienne Rich
@adrienne_rich29
Literary estate of Adrienne Rich, securing her work and ideas — and her poetry — as a resource for all readers.
Transfer Magazine
@Transfer_SFSU
San Francisco State University's student submitted literary journal.
Laura Jaramillo
@mtrlgrrrl
poet/critic. notes towards a theory. IG: invocationofmydemonsister.
National Book Foundation
@nationalbook
National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. #NBAwards
sentient neckbone
@ginkgogab
gabrielle 👁🗨 ginkgo biloba in the mineral water gone sour
Arab American National Museum
@ArabAmericanMus
The first and only museum of its kind. AANM documents, preserves and presents the history, culture and contributions of Arab Americans.
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
@arablit
ALQ & Books: https://t.co/AnogRoiWj1 * Reader-supported: https://t.co/InyhsH2vUa, https://t.co/NPALsRDXJH * PACBI signatory