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Poetry Critics: for constructive criticism of your poetry

This is a subreddit for constructive criticism and feedback on all types of poetry. Our primary goal with this sub is to ensure that every poem that is submitted gets a good amount of quality feedback. Please sort by 'new' to see posts that have little or no feedback.

86k subscribers870 posts / mo in Sep 2026508 authors / mosince 2014

r/poetry_critics has 86k members (+17% over the last 12 months). It gets about 870 posts a month from 508 people. Top topics: Pain and Poetry, Love Unspoken and Poetry Sharing.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+17%in 12 months · +3.0% in 3 months · +0.6% in 1 month
Oct 202685k
Growing85k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−30%vs Sep 2025 · +16% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026870
QuieterPeaked at 1.6k in Oct 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/poetry_critics

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Pain and Poetry7.9%
  2. Love Unspoken5.0%
  3. Poetry Sharing4.6%
  4. Moonlit Poetry4.3%
  5. Flowers and Thorns3.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Medium
  2. Substack
  3. www.poetryfoundation.org
  4. Academy of American Poets
  5. Suno

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research