The Heart of Stanza
The Stage is your personalized feed — where you discover and enjoy poetry. It has four tabs, each offering a different perspective.
For You
Personalized recommendations scored by four factors:
- Recency (40%) — Newer content ranks higher
- Relationship (30%) — Content from people you follow and interact with
- Engagement (20%) — Poems with more reactions and replies
- Diversity (10%) — Surfaces work from different authors so no one dominates your feed
The more you use Stanza, the better this tab gets at showing you work you will love.
Following
A simple chronological feed of submissions from poets you follow. See everything they publish, in order. No algorithm — just a timeline.
Trending
Popular submissions from the last 48 hours, ranked by engagement (reactions and replies). Great for discovering what is resonating with the community right now.
Explore
All public submissions in reverse chronological order. Completely unfiltered and unranked. The raw pulse of the platform.
Mobile vs Desktop
On mobile, the Stage uses a full-screen immersive layout with swipe navigation between poems. On desktop, poems appear as cards in a scrollable feed.