Posting Poems
Importing with PoemShuttle
Bulk-import .txt, .csv, .docx, and .html files as private drafts.
PoemShuttle is the import tool on your My Poems page — drop in .txt, .csv, .docx, or .html files and it lands them as private drafts. Full walkthrough: Import poems with PoemShuttle →
Plain text (.txt), spreadsheets (.csv), modern Word documents (.docx), and web pages (.html / .htm). Legacy .doc files are rejected — open them in Word and save as .docx first.
You can import up to 3 files per day, 25 MB each.
No. Every poem PoemShuttle imports becomes a private draft. You decide when — and whether — to publish them from My Poems.
Each format has its own rules — separators for putting multiple poems in one file, required CSV columns, and what formatting gets stripped. The import guide walks through all of them. See file formatting in the PoemShuttle guide →
Yes — your files are uploaded securely to our servers and parsed there as soon as you add them. Clicking Import then saves the poems it detected to your drafts.
No — only work you own. By importing, you're asserting that you hold the rights to the poems. This is the same standard that applies to posting directly.
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