Medium “Poetry” tag statistics
How busy the Poetry tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 799 stories from the last 3.7 days
Busier than 79% of 73 tracked tags
21% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 215 stories a day, Poetry is busier than 79% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (10,915 followers per daily story) is higher than 22% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
74% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 21% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 22% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 1.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Poetry stories
| Publication | Followers | Poetry stories (last 3.7d) |
|---|---|---|
| Paper Poetry | 1.9K | 9 |
| The Lark | 7.5K | 8 |
| NEW LITERARY SOCIETY | 3.4K | 7 |
| Quiet Ache | 34 | 7 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 7 |
| Know Thyself, Heal Thyself | 27K | 6 |
| Sparkle City Magic | 405 | 6 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 5 |
| Writer’s Circle | 470 | 5 |
| The Quiet Chapter | 322 | 5 |
Top Poetry stories right now
- Event Horizon in the Lint Trap
- You Are The Chosen One
- Halloween’s Eerie Light
- Making Art Isn’t About Being Good at It
- The Boy Teacher and the Father Student
- “The Shining Hand” poem 🖐️✨
- “ The Update” poem ⚠️✨
- Melting
- Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Together
- I CAME HOME ON THE SHOULDERS OF WOMEN
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Poetry tag on Medium?
- About 215 per day (1,506 per week), based on 799 stories published in the 3.7-day window before our last scan. The tag has 749,917 stories in total.
- Is the Poetry tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 79% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 10,915 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Poetry?
- 21% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 74% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.