Poem – Page 73 – Third Wednesday Magazine

…Ups and Downs of Love / Jill Marcusse

Published on April 7, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Our poem of the week from the Spring issue of 3rd Wednesday. It’s available now as a free download and for $6 in print from Amazon.com.

Next-to-Last Visit With My Father / Charles Hughes

Published on March 30, 2020 by Editorial Staff

3rd Wednesday’s poem of the week is one of the winning poems from our most recent poetry contest. It appeared in our spring issue which is available free online at our website or for $6 in print at Amazon.com.

Next-to-Last Visit With My Father / Charles Hughes

“A splendid, well-constructed example of deep emotion, quietly but vividly expressed. Each of the poem’s six 6-line stanzas feature carefully selected details from a particularly difficult farewell, making them indelible—causing the reader to sense the speaker’s dwindling hope while simultaneously cherishing the best of what remains of it.” – Marilyn L. Taylor, contest judge.

Acting Class / Sam Robertson

Published on March 21, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Acting Class is one of three winners in 3rd Wednesday‘s annual poetry contest and is our “Poem of the Week” from the Spring issue of 3W. Print copies can be ordered at Amazon.com and you can find a free download of the digital edition on our website.

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.

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.

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.

One Minute to Midnight / David Chorlton

Published on December 23, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Here is 3rd Wednesday’s poem of the week from the Winter Issue. In his cover letter David wrote: “I’m happy to see print magazines continue in the digital age, as I prefer to hold my reading matter in my hands than to look at a screen! I write because doing so hasn’t lost its meaning to me, and because I feel I’m in good company among (most) others who write.“