Closing Out 2025 With Our Top 10 Posts

Our final post for 2025 looks at the statistics for the posts on this blog.

Our top-performing social media post of the year was on Facebook, and it was a post about having more than a million website visitors. A nice post for us, but not very poetic.

More interesting to us is the traffic that posts received this year. Most of these post that are in our top ten for 2025 are older posts that "have legs." Even looking at what got the most views just in December 2025, "Menu Poems" is still on top. But this month there are some others that were popular but no in the top 10. For example, Baudelaire, Sex, Death and Banned Poems, and Oscar Wilde: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. were in this month's top 10, along with a post about the Allen Ginsberg poetry form known as American Sentences.

Here are the TOP 10 POSTS of 2025.

Four of our prompts top the list. They are no longer open to submissions, but I do know that past prompts often get viewed, and I would hope poets are still using them as inspiration.

Menu Poems tops the list with over 5,000 views. Why? We'll never know for sure, but it was a form that we seem to have invented.

Sonnet + Addonizio = Sonnenizio was a follow-up to a prompt about that invented form from Kim Addonizio. Here are the sommenizios that we published.

The third prompt to be in our top 10 is Being in the Moment with a model poem from Jane Hirshfield.

The number 5 and several poetry forms (cinquain/quintain/quintet) served as the prompts for our issue titled Five.

One post is about all the poetry references in the Bill Murray film, Groundhog Day. It's a movie I love, and the poetry of it was probably lost on many viewers. Check it out at Poetry at the Movies: Groundhog Day

I understand the popularity of The Trouble With Poetry and Billy Collins. Billy is very popular. Maybe readers thought that post was also about some trouble with Billy and not just his trouble with poetry.

I don't understand all the traffic to the brief post 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, which is old news. Perhaps it's just that Ada Limón is also a very popular poet.

Although the post Cherry Blossom Haiku and the Seasons included a lot of spring haiku, it really is about how haiku poets treat all of the seasons. I am a fan of the haiku form and write about it regularly here and elsewhere.

Rounding out our top 10 with about 1,500 views is Our Random Poetry Line Generators Are Not AI. Artificial Intelligence is big news in the past few years. But we posted two chunks of code on our main site that generate possible first lines for a poem. It's not AI by any means, and it's random and limited, but we used it once as a prompt way back in the last century (1999) when no one was really thinking about AI used for writing. You can see the poems that came from that here.