whiptail: journal of the single-line poem
banner
whiptailjournal.bsky.social
whiptail: journal of the single-line poem
@whiptailjournal.bsky.social
www.whiptailjournal.com

Posts by: @tanpoponotokei50.bsky.social.

Editors: @songsofkat.bsky.social & @komadorihaiku.bsky.social.

Read SEA CHANGE, the first anthology of single-line poems in English.

Support whiptail: ko-fi.com/whiptailjournal.
More award nominations from your favorite journal of one-line poetry!
Part 2: Pushcart Prize. Good luck!
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We are thrilled to share our nominations! Part 1: The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards (Poem and Haibun)!

Our sincere gratitude for the writers and readers of exceptional one-line poetry who have made it a fun and exciting year for us at whiptail! Your support means everything to us.
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our 4th anniversary issue is launched featuring mark meyer’s cover art, with a potpourri of one-line poems and works that contain them, including hybrids, sequences, haiga, and concretes! Thanks to everyone who submitted. We hope you enjoy the issue!

PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025

by Kati Mohr

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/6cfqfNOYRiSN...
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Whiptail, Issue 11, November 2024

by Jennifer Sutherland

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/eksOON321aXw...
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024

by Shane Coppage

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/oAAjGWTq1bzp...
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Do not forget submissions close October 27th for the 4th Anniversary Issue.
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Happy 4th bday to whiptail! We are open for one week and are ready to receive your one-line beauties: poems, hybrids, seqs, & other creations! We love art, haiga, & shahai too! Need a little inspiration? Try the optional theme of FOUR (whatever that means to you). www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We hope you have been working on the submissions to our 4th anniversary issue. October 21st-27th submission week is approaching.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It won't be long before we're open again for submissions. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 4th anniversary issue by submitting. To celebrate, we'll have an optional theme of anything related to four. See the image for examples.

whiptailjournal.com/submissions

#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 1, September 2023

Read the Archives | home share.google/ijV779CuYL7F...
August 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025

by Cynthia Hendel

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/NJzvXxyj3WGG...
August 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025

by
Hifsa Ashraf

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/FSXOm11DsdaR...
August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024

by Engin Gülez

Read the Current Issues | home share.google/rAEP8pCVqbMb...
August 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 7,
September 2023

Read the Archives | home share.google/VQSbBEHUvCrz...
July 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 5,
November 2022

issue_5.pdf share.google/z8YGfuCrfCfg...
July 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Whiptail Journal,Issue 3, May 2022

Read the Archives | home share.google/VjGuJGvKGZQU...
July 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 2,
February 2022

Read the Archives | home share.google/QeTFFQ0Xv119...
July 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 1, November 2021

Read the Archives | home share.google/1dpgQCXp9wNo...
July 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
wildflowers climbing the first rung out of grief

by Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta

Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025

share.google/IbrcduYU1tyO...
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2023

by Dave Bonta

www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
June 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025

www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...

By Jo Balistreri
June 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025

by Cynthia Hendel

www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
June 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
whiptail issue 13 is here, and we are feeling like the luckiest editors! The bounty of one-line poems sent to us made our job wonderfully difficult. We hope this cornucopia of one-line haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga, and art will fill you as it did us. www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...

#poetry
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Whiptail Journal, Issue 10,
June 2024

by lolo elleri

www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM