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2.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.8K upvotes, which works out to 2 per 1,000 members.

2peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.2Mmembers
4.8Kbest post
298most comments
308posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

64% 17% 11%
Image 64% Text 17% Gallery 11% Question 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Poem 103 Help!! 23 Contemporary Poem 8 Opinion 4 Classic Corner 3 Opportunity 3 Promotional 2 Meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

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

↑ 4.8K 💬 84 image 2026

[poem] 'Pretending not to have emotions because you're British, while the vet euthanises your dog' by Ewen Glass

↑ 4K 💬 96 image 2026

[POEM] Mercy by Rudy Francisco

↑ 3.1K 💬 70 image 2026

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

↑ 2.8K 💬 42 image 2026

[POEM] Haiku by Keisanjin Isakushu, translated from Japanese

↑ 2.7K 💬 23 image 2026

[Poem] Anthem - Leonard Cohen

↑ 2.1K 💬 50 image 2026

[POEM] Every Bombed Village is My Hometown by James Baldwin

↑ 2K 💬 31 image 2026

After Her Funeral, I Became An Environmentalist [POEM] by Ilya Kaminsky

↑ 1.8K 💬 14 image 2026

[Poem] My Daughter Moves Home, by Nia Broomhall

↑ 1.5K 💬 36 image 2026

[POEM] Separation by W. S. Merwin

↑ 1.5K 💬 24 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Poetry, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Poetry have?
r/Poetry has about 2.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 308 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.8K upvotes, which is 2 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Poetry?
"[POEM] Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez" reached 4.8K upvotes and 84 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Poetry.
What subreddits are similar to r/Poetry?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles.
What kind of posts do best on r/Poetry?
Of the posts we hold, 64% are image posts and 17% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Poetry?
Across 308 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (854 avg upvotes), Thursday at 05:00 UTC (684 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Poetry?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Poetry has 836 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 308 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Poetry, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.