Where to write poetry together online
Find a poetry partner, join a poem in the comments, or start a small writing game of your own.
Someone comments, “The lift kept a little of yesterday’s light.” You write the next line. An hour later, a stranger has taken that lift to a floor you hadn’t thought of. A shared poem can begin in an ordinary feed.
If you’re looking for collaborative poetry online, you can join a poem in the replies, find one person to write with, or invite friends into a chat. Some projects and apps manage the turns for you. The choice depends on whether you want a conversation around the poem or simply the next line.
Join a poem in the comments
In this Reddit writing game, the author posted an opening and asked people to add one line in the replies. Someone did. It’s a tiny chain, but that’s the point: you don’t need much to start. In a Hello Poetry project, people suggested lines in the comments. The finished poem credits the writers line by line. On EveryWriter, several people have continued a poem in the comments, though the visible contributions are older.
Threads lets people discover conversations by topic and reply to posts; Meta explains its topic tags and Communities. If you find a poetry conversation there, you could invite people to write a poem in the replies. We couldn’t verify a public Threads co-writing post to offer as a ready-made example. Think of it as a place to meet people, not a guaranteed ongoing poem thread.
Comments make it easy to begin, but a finished poem can be harder to assemble when replies fork. Say in the first post whether people should continue the latest reply or choose one line from several.
Find a person to trade lines with
If you’d rather write as a pair, look for a specific invitation to collaborate. In one r/WriteWithMe post, a poet suggests emailing stanzas back and forth until the poem feels complete. Reddit is where they look for a partner; the poem itself would live in email.
Your invitation can be short: “Looking for someone to write a six-line poem with. We’ll take turns, and rhyming is optional. A day between turns is fine.” Add the language and whether you hope to publish the result. Then the other person knows what they’re joining.
Borrow a format, or make your own
Red Room Poetry’s Panacea takes a different approach: pick an existing line and submit a continuation. The poem branches, and new lines appear after approval. The project began during the pandemic. Its submission form was still visible when we checked, but we couldn’t confirm that new lines are being published regularly now.
You don’t need a special site. The Academy of American Poets suggests a shared document where each person adds a line. A chat works for two friends, too. Agree on the number of lines, whose turn comes next, and when to stop. For more ways to play, see our seven collaborative poetry games and prompts for a shared poem.
In Rhyma, the turns are built in. People add one line each, see only the preceding line, and reveal the full poem after the last turn. You can write in World or with others in a Circle. It suits the moment when you want to pick up a line without gathering replies from several branches. Rhyma is on Google Play.
A post you can use today
“Let’s write a six-line poem. One comment, one new line. Reply to the latest line in the chain. I’ll start: ‘The lift kept a little of yesterday’s light.’”
When the poem is done, collect it in one place and ask the writers before posting the assembled version elsewhere. Keep track of names as you go. Sorting out who wrote line four after twenty replies is less fun.