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.

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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.

Ahh, the fresh scent of a new year— it smells like warm mud in a region that should be blanketed with snow. There’s much to wonder about as we step into 2025, and a curious public continues to ask Google all the biggest questions. Here are five of the major topics on our collective minds, per Google Trends.