This Week In Substack Poetry 11/2025
Let's dive into 10 poems published from the 12th to the 18th of March 2025!
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To recall
Abigail is new to Substack; it's your chance to get to know her before she is famous! Her poem "To Recall" engages with the theme of consciousness in a fascinating, observant manner. She describes how our consciousness is inconsistent but provides gifts.
Read it here or visit: abigailcharlton.substack.com
I have (No) Friends
S is a productive writer and runs the Twelve Lines series, which features daily long-form poetry. I feel unqualified to evaluate the content of the poem I picked, and this gave me the drive to share it because it is for someone. All these people have to find it.
Read it here or visit: internetofwordsat.substack.com
Quadrilogy of Goodbye
Rolando’s four poems firmly touched me. Gentle, yet sharp.
Four poems, woven with longing, memory, and the quiet ache of farewell. Some departures fade, but some linger—forever.
Read it here or visit: rolandoandrade.substack.com
Helene Mullins - 6 Short Poems
(1921-1928)
I love this project. Forgotten Poets unearths older, forgotten, and maybe underrated poets and gives them a space on the Internet to be discovered. Being underrated or even unknown is not a blemish; there is much to see and learn here.
Read it here or visit: forgottenpoets.substack.com
Whispersmith
We are the smiths of our fate, but that's not a task with a straightforward job description. The constant need to be who we are—but not really—takes a lifetime to deal with.
Read it here or visit: draftingdreamer.substack.com
Meanwhile
Remember that you have to die—in the meantime, you should read Thomas's poetry.
Read it here or visit: thomasdef634.substack.com
In Unlit Corners
Anger is an emotion just like love. I don’t mean, “It’s like love, but not really.” I mean it in a blunt way. We do not control our love, but if we spread it, thats good. Anger, on the other hand, might come just as natural but must be leashed. Many people leash their love, too.
We should not assume that people are always in control and forgive them for their emotions, as we need to forgive ourselves for ours.
Read it here or visit: nickchapmanjones.substack.com
showing yer hand
A wise man once wrote: "Many people leash their love, too." This leash seems to pull us in the wrong direction quite often. It's not clear who is on the other side of it.
Read it here or visit: seamusgilkey.substack.com
Earth Movers
It’s often said that we are walking on the shoulders of giants when, in fact, we are walking on billions of little lives, struggling to acknowledge and respect even the big souls in front of us.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Read it here or visit: caroehenry.com
poem 010: let's play pretend
Wanting out, getting away, and growing to be someone new.
Read it here or visit: thevelveteenraccoon.substack.com
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How poems are chosen
I researched a rather long list of poets from Substack and will choose five to ten of them at more or less random while aiming at a diverse collection. The only other qualifying measurement is that the poem must be published in the last seven days. It is a weekly roundup, after all!
Godspeed, Tim
Thank you, Tim! Your weekly newsletter is a salve for an increasingly strange world outside of our modest poetry corner here on Substack.
Thank you for the feature, Tim, you're too generous.