Three Line Poetry keeps its writing about the form in one place. Two guides and a themed reading room, nothing padded to make the count.
Three-Line Poem Examples pulls sixteen published poems into four groups — image, love, grief, comic — with a short note on why the form suits each. Forms of Three-Line Poetry answers the question we get asked most: what actually separates a haiku from a senryu from a tercet from a lune, since this journal accepts all four and calls none of them wrong. Poems by Theme goes wider, sorting the archive by subject rather than form — love, nature, the seasons, night, loss, life.
Start wherever your question is. Then, if a poem with three lines is bouncing around in your head, we read submissions year round, and fewer than six in a hundred get in — which is exactly why it’s worth trying.
Sixteen examples of poems with 3 lines, all published in Three Line Poetry. Image poems, love poems, grief and comic poems, each linked to the issue it appeared in.
Read →What is a tercet? What is a lune? A plain guide to the forms of three-line poetry, from haiku and senryu to tercets and lunes, with examples from a journal that publishes them.
Read →Short three-line poems from the archive, gathered by theme: love, nature, the seasons, night, loss and life.
Read →Three Line Poetry reads submissions year round, and publication is free. Send us your best three lines.