About r/Poetry
In its own words:
A place for sharing published poetry. For sharing original content, please visit r/OCPoetry
Community guide
r/Poetry (#503, about 2.2 million) — A place for sharing published poetry. For sharing original content, please visit r/OCPoetry Collected rules highlight No Original Content; Tag your Title; Do your homework, among 9 listed. Activity mix in sample: image:149, text:111, gallery:35, link:4. Bu.
What belongs here
Posts should match the community’s curatorial bar—A place for sharing published poetry. For sharing original content, please visit r/OCPoetry. Hard filters include: No Original Content; Tag your Title; Do your homework; Be detailed. Off-scope, spam, and low-effort dumps are the usual removal reasons when those rules are listed.
How it differs
Neighbor communities called out in the public description include r/OCPoetry. Use those when your post is a better fit elsewhere; this page only paraphrases publicly listed distinctions.
Before you post
Common flairs in the sample: Poem, Improper/No [LABEL], Help!!, Opinion. Recent sample composition: image:149, text:111, gallery:35, link:4. Bu. Format-sensitive rules to read first: Tag your Title; Poetry title: [TAG] Title - Author. Treat subscriber and posts-per-day figures as directory snapshots, not live Reddit counters.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 15, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,487 subscribers (+0.07%). It sits just behind r/PoliticalDiscussion (#502) and ahead of r/confusing_perspective (#504) in our ranking.
What sets r/Poetry apart
r/Poetry is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 49% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 19% across the Top 100. r/Poetry is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 2.7 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.3. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 5.4× as many posts as the quietest (08:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Poetry went up from 2,206,599 to 2,215,868 subscribers (+9.3K, +0.42%). That is about 211 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Poetry talks about
We read the titles of 302 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “poem”, “help”, “opinion”, “love” and “charles”. Other frequent themes are bukowski, translated, recommendations, john, richard and siken. Recurring phrases include “charles bukowski”, “richard siken”, “langston hughes” and “poem helping”. By format, 49% are images, 37% are text posts and 12% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Poem (105), Improper/No [LABEL] (39), Help!! (26), Opinion (17), Contemporary Poem (10), Classic Corner (5).
Activity and best time to post
r/Poetry gets about 41 new posts a day. The public archive holds 285,594 posts and 757,316 comments in total, about 2.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (56 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (25). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Poetry
The moderators of r/Poetry list 9 rules. In short:
- No Original Content
- Tag your Title
- Do your homework
- Be detailed
- Don't use URL shorteners.
- Hall of Fame
- Toxic behavior
- Unpublished work
- Poetry title: [TAG] Title - Author
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Poetry and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Poetry have?
r/Poetry has 2,215,868 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #503 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 9,269 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Poetry created?
r/Poetry was created on Mar 15, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/Poetry still active?
Yes. r/Poetry gets about 41 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 285,594 posts and 757,316 comments. In a sample of 302 recent posts we counted 187 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Poetry?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Poetry?
The community describes itself as: “A place for sharing published poetry. For sharing original content, please visit r/OCPoetry” Recent post titles often mention poem, help, opinion, love and charles. Most posts are images (49%).
Is r/Poetry SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Poetry as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/Poetry?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Poetry accepts both text and link posts, with images, galleries and polls enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “No Original Content”; “Tag your Title”; “Do your homework”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Poetry?
Communities with similar topics include r/literature (2.2M), r/MurderedByWords (3.4M), r/youtubehaiku (2.8M), r/Fantasy (4M) and r/tipofmytongue (2.7M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Poetry.