r/Poetry Apr 11 '23

MOD POST [META] Posting your own poems here -- when to post and when to head to one of our sibling subreddits

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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 There are many subs that allow users to post their own original, unpublished work. In Reddit sub parlance, an original, unpublished poem is considered "original content," and the largest sub for that is r/ocpoetry.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For those who want to post their unpublished, original work to Reddit, here are some links to help you do just that.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:

Subreddits that do not require commentary on your peers' work:


r/Poetry 17h ago

Meta What Have You Been Reading? September 2026

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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.


MONTHLY DISCUSSION SCHEDULE

  • What Have You Been Reading?
  • Publication Talk
  • Local/Regional Scenes
  • Classical & Ancient Poetry
  • Miscellaneous

Do not post your original poetry here. It will be deleted and you will be banned.


r/Poetry 6h ago

[POEM] Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do By Aaron Belz

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Poetry 7h ago

Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, has died at 92

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190 Upvotes

r/Poetry 2h ago

[POEM] Another Poem About My Father - Kayla Czaga

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82 Upvotes

r/Poetry 1d ago

[POEM] Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez

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3.7k Upvotes

r/Poetry 5h ago

Poem [Poem] Vespers by Louise Glück

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104 Upvotes

r/Poetry 3h ago

Poem Dream Song 14, John Berryman [POEM]

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54 Upvotes

r/Poetry 16h ago

Poem [POEM] Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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481 Upvotes

r/Poetry 9h ago

[POEM] How To Be A Poet, by Wendell Berry

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71 Upvotes

r/Poetry 20h ago

Poem [POEM]- ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ by Wendell Berry

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332 Upvotes

r/Poetry 4h ago

Poem [Poem] The Loved Ones by Wendell Berry

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Sent by The Berry Center today. 💔 Thank you for all you gave us. Rest in the peace of wild things, and the grace of the world beyond.


r/Poetry 4h ago

Poem [POEM] Desire - Langston Hughes

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16 Upvotes

r/Poetry 8h ago

Poem [POEM] Bible Study — Tony Hoagland

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r/Poetry 8h ago

One of her funnest poems, “This World is *not* Conclusion” — Emily Dickinson (1862) [POEM]

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r/Poetry 12h ago

[POEM] Wendell Berry - September 2

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43 Upvotes

r/Poetry 9h ago

Poem [Poem] Going by Wendell Berry

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There are so many so powefull poems of his. This one seemed appropriate for today.

As I am want to do, it comes with a rendition on the ol' radio.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dJwYJt3WD5I

It's strange. It made me think of that powerplant somehow. The smokestacks towering so tall you could see them for miles around, dismantled and gone. The Landscape strangely altered in an unfamiliar way. Something that always was there, though at times not really pretty to look at, mind, now missing from the world.


r/Poetry 1d ago

[Poem] IF YOU'RE ALIVE, THEN ACT ALIVE by L.E. Bowman

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r/Poetry 6h ago

[Poem] The Vacation, by Wendell Berry

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Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.

He went flying down the river in his boat

with his video camera to his eye, making

a moving picture of the moving river

upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly

toward the end of his vacation. He showed

his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,

preserving it forever: the river, the trees,

the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat

behind which he stood with his camera

preserving his vacation even as he was having it

so that after he had had it he would still

have it. It would be there. With a flick

of a switch, there it would be. But he

would not be in it. He would never be in it.


r/Poetry 8h ago

Poem [POEM] Preludes - T. S. Eliot

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r/Poetry 19h ago

Poem [POEM] “The Want of Peace” by Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

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100 Upvotes

r/Poetry 1d ago

August- Mary Oliver [POEM]

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856 Upvotes

r/Poetry 17h ago

Poem [POEM] Our Real Work by Wendell Berry

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58 Upvotes

r/Poetry 25m ago

Help!! [HELP] Solution for trying to write a long narrative poem?

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As the title says I find myself struggling to write the poem in iambic pentameter, yet I am skilled enough in the formal form to just improvise a lyrical short poem with little guidance, just a theme and character. With this narrative poem I started by writing it as prose first. Doing this first step enables me to focus first on the narrative: potential plot holes, and issues with causality: potential issues with the timeline of events. But trying to translate the prose into formal poetry I have difficulty writing. Is this a common problem with poets of the past and now that tried to write narrative poems? Do you have any solutions to this issue?


r/Poetry 20h ago

Poem [POEM] distant bombing – Mona Bedi

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76 Upvotes