Our Poem of the Week features one of the winning poems from our “One Sentence Poetry Contest”. We had so many comments about the contest and the poems we published in the summer issue of TW, that we’ve decided to do it again for the winter issue. We’ll open for entries in September. Look for bigger prizes this time around.
Our Poem Of The Week, about a routine task that few of us do anymore, comes from Merrill Douglas,a poet from Vestal, New York. It appears in our summer issue, on it’s way to subscribers now.
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Our Poem of the Week was submitted to Third Wednesday’s annual poetry contest by Vermont poet, James Crews. It was one of three contest winners. Our contest judge, Phillip Sterling said this about it:
“Darkest Before Dawn” by James Crews: A luminous description of an orchid in its contrary environment and the emotive/cognitive awareness if it on the part of the speaker, this poem is hopeful and promising, a gently rhythmic and subtly rhymed gift.
Our poem of the week is from Rhode Island poet, John Grey. Give it some thought this Memorial Day.
Preview of the summer issue, including our first ever “One Sentence Poetry Contest.
Poem of the Week: This one from poet, Bruce Pemberton, has been selected to appear in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” in a few months. Congratulations Bruce.
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Like most journals, 3rd Wednesday publishes few landfill poems. They’re hard to come by for one thing. Here’s one from an English poet who demonstrates that rhyme is not dead. Our poem of the week was a contest honorable mention in our Spring issue.
There’s something going on in Bellingham, Washington. We rarely put out an issue of Third Wednesday without a poem from somebody who lives there. Our poem of the week is an example by Tim Pilgrim. It was in our Spring Issue.
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