Tag: Literary Journal
Working Outside
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.
His Words Are Lost In Noise
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.
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.
Forgetting the Color of Hansel’s Hair
Our “Poem of the Week” is one of three winning poems from this year’s Annual Poetry Contest. Contest judge Robert Fanning said, “…what made these winning poems shine was a line or an image that astonished me, diction that flickered with deeper meaning, and an ear tuned to the extraordinary music of language.”
With an Army at Our Gates
It’s Just Chips
Guinotte Wise has been featured often in the pages of Third Wednesday. He is a sculptor as well as a poet. You can see some of his work at http://www.wisesculpture.com/ . Here is our poem of the week.
Autumn 2017 by Bruce Pemberton
Our congratulations to Bruce Pemberton whose first published poem has been chosen for national distribution by American Life in Poetry.
It was first published in Third Wednesday.
Read the Spring 2019 Issue
Special Soap
Bellingham, Washington is a hotbed of poetry judging by the quality of the submissions Third Wednesday receives from there. We almost always find something worthy of publication. This one, by Sarah Murphy-Kangas, is a prime example. It’s Third Wednesday’s poem of the week.
The Nightjar
In the U.S. we call them nighthawks but in much of the world they’re known as nightjars. African poet, Kim Ottavi, who now lives in France, writes about the nightjars of home. Here is the poem of the week from Third Wednesday Magazine.
