Trust me when I say: I get it, the difficulty of writing. We pour ourselves into the words, bleeding onto the page, only for publishing houses to come back and say the work doesn’t capture the reader’s attention, or is lacking urgency, or isn’t the right fit at this time. There’re authors who, if they bear witness too many rejects, stop believing in their magic gift.

In addition to it being National Poetry Month, April is also Autism Acceptance Month, a time to recognize and honor the beauty of diverse experience. Yet in the middle of April, an ignorant political figure took the time to make false and hurtful claims about the autistic community. Thus, autism and rfk autism both show up on the trends list.

We all know how easy it is to lose writing momentum or have seasons of withering inspiration. One of my favorite things to do when I’m facing a writer’s block is to turn to another genre; film. Yes, you read right. I jump into another writer’s visual world, swim around for a bit, and hopefully find inventiveness from their creations to channel into my own. 

March on the internet finally wore me down: I deleted the Facebook app. After learning how many poets in my community had ditched the platform years ago, I was a little embarrassed that I still had it. Even without social media (or certain forms of social media), the internet itself persists and with it, our curiosity. Here’s a look at what’s on our collective minds this month, per Google Trends.

Learn from poet F.M. Papaz the best tips submitting your work.

Hungry? Hungry for a sampling of poetry that satisfies a longing? This simple-to-implement guide (reusable, recyclable, and reliable) is just what you need to carve a poem like a pro in a 5-star kitchen.

It’s my birth month and it’s been a weird one; then again, aren’t they all? I’m woefully caught up in my own life right now, but Google Trends is here to remind me what the rest of the world is thinking about. Here are a few standouts. 

Audre Lorde said it best: “Poetry is not a luxury.” It stands behind no closed door nor price tag but poetry does require the time and space for emergence. How does one make time and space for poetry to exist within their life?

Welcome to 2025, where AI runs the literary world, poets fight back with phoenix metaphors, and even your horoscope can’t escape algorithmic judgment. Let the stars—and GPT-9—guide you through a year of verse, revisions, and cosmic absurdity. Who knows? Maybe Saturn’s retrograde will finally explain why Submittable hates you.