2 Blogs on 1 site–Possible?

Wouldn’t you just go and create another subdirectory under your website and install WordPress there? For example I have public_html and once I click that, it’s my website. For example.. https://www.mywebsite.com would have index.html under public_html. once I can see my index.html (the root of my website) I would create another folder called blog, and another called blog1 and install wordpress on both. That way I can have another blog. I think you would have to create another database though, on your web host.

Hmmm. That sounds a bit over my computer literacy level. ??

Is there an easier way?

Yes @pcarrell off course you can do that. In the home directory, create a landing page which will tell visitors that you have 2 blogs and link to them. Create 2 subdirectories, install wordpress on them and make your blogs on poetry & fiction.

Login with FTP, go to your public_html or htdocs folder (whichever you have), right click and make new directory; one will be “poetry” another will be “fiction” (or whatever you want to name them). Then upload wordpress, setup and run blogs.

If you’re using auto installer scripts, there will be a place for sub directory, mention them while installing.

I wouldn’t install multiple blog for something like this, just have different categories and link them from a landing page using a static page as homepage

yes @skinewzealand that’s a good idea.
but @pcarrell said he wants “an altogether separate blog”, so…

Why not make custom post types with 1. peotry and 2. fiction.
This way you can order the to post types in different categories, pages or whatever.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_Multiple_Blogs or is that what you looking for?

You can also enable WP Network and then create 2 subdirectory blog.
Check this link https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network