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Working Outside

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Marfa, Texas is a small desert town known as an oasis of the arts. It was the filming location of James Dean’s final film, Giant, and figures prominantly in the Ed Graczyk play and Robert Altman film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. It’s also the home of a U.F.O. phenomenon, The Marfa Lights. Marfa poet, Daryl Scroggins,  whom Third Wednesday has featured a number of times, now has produced a U.L.O. (Unidentified Literary Object).  Is it a poem, a prose poem, a bit flash fiction? Does it matter how we label it?  What Daryl does give us is a glimpse into the mind of an adolescent boy – a strange and dangerous place.

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Insta Poets and Haiga

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Instagram Poetry has elements derivative of classical Japanese Haiga, the difference being the poor quality of both the poems and the artwork. There is a similar phenomenon happening in music with electronically created “beats” replacing skillfully played instruments, and simplistic repetitive lyrics. My theory is that there is a yearning to create without the price of years spent developing craft and a medium (the internet) to spread it. Anyone can do it.
– David Jibson, Co-Editor – Third Wednesday Magazine

 

Today again it can be seen InoueShiro
Today again I see it –
Mount Fuji.

– Inoue Shiro
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Misty haze is
the blackness of the pines
on a moonlight night

     – Nakajima Kaho

 

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The newest issue of Third Wednesday is out. Once again, I am dazzled by so many poems in its pages and proud to have one of my own included. In this issue, too, I have been especially impressed with the photography. In the Spring 2019 (Vol. XII, No. 2) issue, I find it harder than…

via News Flash! THIRD WEDNESDAY Publishes “Poem in Which I Try, Very Hard, to Do My Own Bidding” — Winona Media

His Words Are Lost In Noise

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This elegantly written little poem is like a photograph.  Close your eyes and you can see, not only the details the poet chose, but the scene beyond, especially if you’ve been in a fishing village anywhere in The Caribbean.

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Ed Note: Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken by about 200,000 people, mainly in coastal areas of Honduras, Belize, Guatamala and Nicaragua. It originated on the island of St. Vincent in the Antilies.