3rd Wednesday’s poem of the week is from the fall 2019 issue of the magazine. You can download and read the entire issue for free here, and you can order a print copy from Amazon for a very low price.


White Horses can be purchased from Mojave River Press, as a limited, signed edition or from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Powell’s Books in either a print edition or electronic edition.


Third Wednesday’s poem of the week is by Dawn Terpstra. It’s paired here with a photo by “Seigar”. Both are from our fall issue which is free in digital form from our website and available for purchase in print at Amazon.com.


Our poem of the week is two poems. We love short poems and here are two fine ones from the fall issue of 3rd Wednesday. Recently we made the digital of edition our magazine free for everyone. Get yourself a copy of this issue and all the issues from the past two years (poetry doesn’t go out of date) HERE.


Digital editions of 3rd Wednesday Magazine are now free to everyone! Visit our website to download Volumes XI and XII.
Third Wednesday’s Poem of the Week is by North Carolina poet, J.S. Absher, who has us from the first line.

is the title of this painting by artist and poet, Hedy Habra, which graces the cover of the autumn issue of Third Wednesday.


Our editor, David Jibson, snapped this photo of a miniature planting on his patio, a quite accidental living version of Hedy’s painting.
Here is Third Wednesday’s Poem of the week from California poet, Max Gutmann, who has a special story to tell in just a few lines.

Lenny DellaRocca is founder and co-publisher of South Florida Poetry Journal-SoFloPoJo. Winner of the 2017 Yellow Jacket Chapbook contest, Things I See in the Fire, DellaRocca is also a Pushcart nominee. His work has appeared in Third Wednesday, Seattle Review, Wisconsin Review, Poet Lore and other fine journals.
“…DellaRocca does what all good drivers (and poets) should do- he steers into the skid.”
– Denise Duhamel
