Posting Poems
Importing with PoemShuttle
Bulk-import .txt, .csv, .docx, and .html files as drafts only you can see.
PoemShuttle is the import tool on your My Poems page — drop in .txt, .csv, .docx, or .html files and it lands them as drafts only you can see. 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 add up to 10 files at once, 25 MB each. All the files you upload together count as one import, and you can run up to 3 imports a day.
No. Every poem PoemShuttle imports becomes a draft that only you can see. You decide when — and whether — to publish them from My Poems. When you publish one, it goes out as Public unless you change its Visibility first.
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.
Yes, up to 100 poems per file. If a file has more, only the first 100 are imported and you'll see a note saying the rest were left out. Split big collections into smaller files.
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