Oliver Fox is the winner of the Free Verse Prize 2025 for his poem 'The Volunteers'.

Idk if I’m in one of these starter packs or what but influx of new followers so here’s the greatest poem anyone has ever written, The Butcher’s Story by Mary Ruefle, which I think is in the collection Dunce and her Selected Porms

Genuinely do not want to be sanctimonious but the feeling of writing so far exceeds the feeling of publishing/“being a writer” that I can’t wrap my head around bypassing the former via AI.

Don’t you want to wander through the day muttering syllables to yourself and laughing at the sun’s jokes etc?

I promise you this: no poem will ever make me appreciate the beauty of nature. Don’t care, not going to contemplate it, I’m going to keep looking at my phone where the content is

Poetry twitter is suddenly back! This is nice.