Tag: Poem
Ohio Blue Tip
Our “Poem of the Week” comes from the winter issue of Third Wednesday. It’s a single sentence from former Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.
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
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.
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.
Late Summer Rain
Our poem of the week was a winning poem in Third Wednesday’s most recent “One Sentence Poetry Contest”. This is the second win for Virginia poet, Mark Madigan.
The newest iteration of this popular contest is open for entries until April 15, 2019.
I Have No Thoughts of Cosmological Matters – Our Poem of the Week
This week’s poem is a Triolet from M. B. Powell, a Washington poet who has three tiolets in the winter issue of Third Wednesday. The poet’s chapbook, Lovers, Mothers, Killers, Others is published by Finishing Line Press, 2013.
tri·o·let
/ˈtrēələt/
noun
A poem of eight lines, rhyming abaaabab and so structured that the first line recurs as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth.
Photo credit: NASA Hubble Telescope
The Birds of Morris Graves
Our poem of the week is an ekphrastic based on the body of work of the Northwest artist, Morris Graves (1910-2001). The background image is “Spirit Bird”. This poem appeared first in the Spring 2017 issue of Third Wednesday and was later reprinted in The Ekphrastic Review. (Disclaimer – the poem’s author is one of our editors).
Superior
We like poems that paint a vivid picture and this one from Raymond Byrnes does exactly that. His poem is a photograph of a stormy Lake Superior. It’s an apt description of how quickly conditions can change on the big lake using images that are familiar to those who know the hard working inland sea.
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