Literary Journal – Page 86 – Third Wednesday Magazine

Sheltering in Place…

Published on March 19, 2020 by Editorial Staff

The last 11 issues of 3rd Wednesday are avialable free in PDF format, including the latest spring contest issue. Visit our website and download some great reading. Poetry doesn’t go out of date.

3rd Wednesday: Spring Issue

Published on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Spring2020Front Contributor and Subscriber copies of the Spring issue of 3rd Wednesday are in the mail. This issue features the winning poems and honorable mentions from our annual poetry contest, judged this year by Marilyn L. Taylor. Dr. Taylor is a teacher and well-published poet with 8 poetry collections to her credit. She was poet laureate of The State of Wisconsin (2009-10).

A number of other poems that were originally entered in the contest have been published as regular submissions with permission of the poets. We give writers in our contests a second chance at publication when they elect that as an option.

This issue sees the return of the popular InsideOut Literary Arts Project, featuring five poems by Detroit area students in the 3^rd through 5^th grades. We owe the usual thanks to Peter Markus for curating them.

You can download the issue in PDF format for free from our website and print copies can be purchased at Amazon.com.

Creeping Bellflower / Brianna Van Dyke

Published on March 14, 2020 by Editorial Staff

The spring issue of 3rd Wednesday is about to go into the mail. This is our annual poetry contest issue and today we present one of the honorable mention poems from this year’s contest. The poet tells us that this is her first ever poetry publication. The issue is on sale now at Amazon.

To The Domain / Fabrice Poussin

Published on March 11, 2020 by Editorial Staff

“To the Domain” is a black and white photo by Fabrice Poussin. It’s one of 10 pieces of visual art in the Spring issue of 3rd Wednesday Magazine due out next week.

We Share the Sky

Published on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Editorial Staff

3rd Wednesday Magazine’s “Poem of the Week” is actually two poems from The InsideOut Literary Project, each written by 3rd grade students from Dearborn, Michigan. You can learn more about the project at their website, https://insideoutdetroit.org/

These poems and others from I/O are featured in the Spring issue of 3rd Wednesday (due out near the end of March) as will the winners from our annual poetry contest.

“Fairgrounds” / Ted Kooser

Published on February 17, 2020March 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Our Poem of the Week was first published in fall 2018 issue of Third Wednesday. Here is Ted Kooser’s poem, Fairgounds.

Landscape / John Loree

Published on February 11, 2020 by Editorial Staff

A watercolor by one of 3rd Wednesday’s favorite artists graces the cover of the Winter Issue.

Shirt Dad / Dallas Itzen

Published on February 6, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Here’s our poem of a week, a single sentence poem from 3rd Wednesday’s winter issue by Dallas Itzen of Brooklyn, New York.

Aunt Eudora’s Harlequin Romance

Published on January 25, 2020March 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff

For our 3rd Wednesday poem of the week we go back to 2015 and this jewel by our own associate editor, Marilyn Taylor. It has since had reprints in Poetry Magazine and at American Life in Poetry.

Driving My Daughter to School – Sarah Russell

Published on January 10, 2020 by Editorial Staff2 Comments

Sarah Russell’s poem was an entry and $100 winner in 3rd Wednesday’s recent One Sentence Poetry Contest. When we wrote to notify her, we told her that her’s was one of the worst run-on sentences we’ve ever seen, but that it served this prose poem perfectly.