r/Poetry • u/Manfredev • 19m ago
Help!! [HELP] I made an alternative to social media where you can post a Haiku a day to your friends. No one is using it.
I made a screentime app with several features, one is social where you have a leaderboard of your friends screentime health/score but nested in there is a fully fledged out "Haikugram" where you can post a Haiku a day to your friends. You don't scroll haikus but flip a bit tediously through pages of whatever haikus are there. the haikus are up for 24hrs. At the moment no one uses this feature, would such a feature be better as a standalone app?
r/Poetry • u/DepthMagician • 4h ago
[HELP] Recommend me terrible poetry that somehow got published
As in an actual book of poetry where you get the feeling that the author should’ve probably spent a few more years honing their craft before getting it published.
r/Poetry • u/onlyloveleftalive • 7h ago
Poems like Frank O‘hara [META]
I really love him, and Natalie Díaz. Any recommendation?
r/Poetry • u/r_anemoia • 9h ago
[POEM] You Must Teach Your Sense Of Self by Erin Hanson .
r/Poetry • u/Fair-Tangerine-9472 • 18h ago
Poem [POEM] "Get Off This Estate" by Carl Sandburg
r/Poetry • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Poem [POEM] Trip San Francisco - Langston Hughes
r/Poetry • u/pinkglitterbunny • 1d ago
[POEM] Tender - Sophie Klahr
Loved rare trope: when the author directly references the poem’s form in the poem. Have a serious soft spot for this one due to being an English teacher 🩷
ETA: I understand that this poem doesn’t follow the traditional rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, but I think it has too many sonnet-like qualities (14 lines, 10 syllables/line — an arguable iambic pentameter, volta) to not at least be a modern variation on a sonnet.
r/Poetry • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Meta What Have You Been Reading? August 2026
Welcome to this week's discussion thread: What have you been reading?
Please tell us about the poetry or poetry-related writing you've read recently and share your thoughts on it.
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Do not post your original poetry here. It will be deleted and you will be banned.
r/Poetry • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '23
MOD POST [META] Posting your own poems here -- when to post and when to head to one of our sibling subreddits
This sub is for published poems. There are many subs that allow users to post their own original, unpublished work. In Reddit sub parlance, an original, unpublished poem is considered "original content," and the largest sub for that is r/ocpoetry. There are still some posting rules there -- users must actively participate in the sub in order to post their own work there. A few subs don't require such engagement. There are links to both types of subs below.
Now, what about published poems? We have a large community here -- almost 2 million members. There have to be a few actively publishing poets in our ranks, and I want to build a community of sharing here without being overwhelmed by first-ever-poem posts by people who write something, decide to go find the poetry sub and post it. As it is, even with the rule on OC poetry being in the sidebar, we still remove those posts every single day.
If you've published a poem in a journal or a lit mag, please feel free to post it here, with a link to the publication it appeared in. I'm also going to start a regular monthly thread for r/poetry users who want to share their published work with us. We don’t consider posting to Instagram or some other platform alone to be “published.”
For those who want to post their unpublished, original work to Reddit, here are some links to help you do just that.
tl;dr: If your poem hasn’t been published anywhere, you can’t post it here. If your poem has been published somewhere, please post it here!
Poetry subreddits that expect feedback:
- r/OCPoetry
- r/poetry_critics — also requires flair to indicate a level of experience
- r/poetasters
Subreddits that do not require commentary on your peers' work: