Third Wednesday’s poem of the week. Plenty of fun and lots of attitude from Kelli Simpson of Norman, Oklahoma.

Third Wednesday’s poem of the week. Plenty of fun and lots of attitude from Kelli Simpson of Norman, Oklahoma.

Our Third Wednesday Poem of the Week, “The Errand” is by James Schneider of Brunswick, Maine. It appeared in Third Wednesday Vol. XI, No.1 The link will take you to a reprint with audio from Maine Public Radio.
http://www.mainepublic.org/post/errand#stream/0
Our poem of the week is by Stella Nesanovich. It was re-pubished by “American Life in Poetry” and in many newpapers across the U.S.A.

Our poem of the week is by John Corle who lives in Chester County Pennsylvania. As one of our editors said, “
I really like “River” quite a bit. Effective stance, vivid imagery, restrained sentiment.”

Our Poem of the Week features one of the winning poems from our “One Sentence Poetry Contest”. We had so many comments about the contest and the poems we published in the summer issue of TW, that we’ve decided to do it again for the winter issue. We’ll open for entries in September. Look for bigger prizes this time around.

Our Poem Of The Week, about a routine task that few of us do anymore, comes from Merrill Douglas,a poet from Vestal, New York. It appears in our summer issue, on it’s way to subscribers now.

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Our Poem of the Week was submitted to Third Wednesday’s annual poetry contest by Vermont poet, James Crews. It was one of three contest winners. Our contest judge, Phillip Sterling said this about it:
“Darkest Before Dawn” by James Crews: A luminous description of an orchid in its contrary environment and the emotive/cognitive awareness if it on the part of the speaker, this poem is hopeful and promising, a gently rhythmic and subtly rhymed gift.

Our poem of the week is from Rhode Island poet, John Grey. Give it some thought this Memorial Day.
