Understanding the stream

Overview

Your stream is the home of GS Poetry — the running stream you land on at /stream/home. It gathers what the poets you follow are doing, weaves in your own activity and anything aimed at you, and sets a writing prompt and a trending list along the side so there’s always somewhere to start. This guide covers what the stream shows, how it’s put in order, and the widgets that sit beside it: the Daily Prompt, Today’s Poem, and Trending Poems.

What the stream shows

The stream is a live activity stream, not a static wall of poems. As you scroll, you’ll see things like:

• New poems published by poets you follow.
• Status posts — short updates you and others share straight from the top of the stream.
• Engagement on poems: likes, saves, shares, reads, and highlights.
• Comments and replies, with a preview of the latest ones under a poem.
• Milestones and achievements — when a poem hits a mark or a poet earns a badge.
• Photos and albums, follows, and profile updates from people in your circle.

You can like, save, comment, share, or repost right from any card, and open a poem or profile with a tap. Anyone you’ve blocked or snoozed is filtered out, and private or deleted work never appears.

How it’s ordered

Your stream is built around the poets you follow. It pulls together activity from the people you follow, your own activity, and events that involve you directly — like someone liking or commenting on your poem — and shows it newest first. Follow more poets whose work you love and your stream fills out; it’s the single lever that shapes what you see. As you reach the bottom, more loads automatically, then a Load More button keeps the rest within reach.

Alongside the stream you’ll also find recommendations that don’t depend on who you follow — a Suggested Poets strip to help you discover new writers, plus the Trending and Daily Prompt widgets below. Want to go wider? Browse Discover poems and Discover poets any time.

The Daily Prompt

The Daily Prompt card offers one short writing prompt each day — a single line meant to spark a poem. It’s the same prompt for everyone on a given day and refreshes on its own, so there’s always something new to answer without hunting for an idea.

When a line moves you, click Write to this prompt. That opens the poem composer so you can start writing straight away — the prompt is just a starting point, and what you make of it is entirely yours. There’s no obligation to use it and nothing to unlock; it’s free for every poet.

Today’s Poem

The Today’s Poem card features one poem each day — the same poem for everyone, with the day’s date, the poem’s title, its poet, and a Read Today’s Poem button that takes you straight to it. A new poem takes the spot every day.

The pick is automatic and fair: it rotates through public poems by poets with public profiles, so every eligible poem gets its day — it can’t be bought, and there’s no editor playing favorites. Want your own work in the rotation someday? Just publish poems set to Public and keep your profile public; that’s all it takes to be eligible.

Trending Poems

The Trending This Week card is a compact, numbered list of the poems catching the most attention right now. Each row shows the poem’s rank, its title, a read count, and the poet who wrote it — tap the title to open the poem or the name to visit the poet’s profile.

Trending is earned, not bought: it reflects real reads and engagement over the week and refreshes as the week goes on. You’ll see two kinds of tags — Trending for established poems on the rise, and Emerging for standout work from newer voices, so fresh talent gets a place alongside familiar names.

Related

New here? See Discovering poems and poets for more ways to find writing you’ll love. Still have a question about your stream? Contact support.