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Three Poems is the fifth poetry collection by American writer John Ashbery, published on February 15, 1972, by Viking Press.

Publication
Viking Press published the book in hardcover on February 15, 1972, with a list price of $5.95 (equivalent to about $ in, adjusted for inflation). Viking printed between 1,000–1,144 hardcover copies. The first paperback edition, in a run of 5,000 copies, arrived the same day with a list price of $2.25 (about $ in ). Ecco Press published a second edition in 1989 with a new cover designed by Trevor Winkfield, a painter and friend of Ashbery.