Got our copy of Ted Kooser’s collection, Red Stilts, (his 15th) in today’s mail. Here’s a pic of the cover along with the manuscript page of the title poem we published in 3rd Wednesday a couple of years ago.
Red Stilts / Ted Kooser
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Red Stilts / Ted Kooser
Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become widely known. Kooser writes for an audience of everyday readers and believes poets “need to write poetry that doesn’t make people feel stupid.” Each poem in Red Stilts strives to reveal the complex beauties of the ordinary, of the world that’s right under our noses. Right under Kooser’s nose is rural America, most specifically the Great Plains, with its isolated villages, struggling economy, hard-working people and multiple beauties that surpass everything wrecked, wrong, or in error.
Mr. Kooser’s poems have graced the pages of 3rd Wednesday six times and two of those poems appear in Red Stilts. Here is “Ohio Bluetip” from our Winter 2019 Issue. In this poem Mr. Kooser demonstrates that much can be accomplished with a single sentence.
Ohio Blue Tip / Ted Kooser
Today is Ted Kooser’s 81st birthday. In his honor, our poem of the week is one that was first published in the Winter 2019 issue of 3rd Wednesday. Thank you Ted and happy birthday to you.
“Fairgrounds” / Ted Kooser
Our Poem of the Week was first published in fall 2018 issue of Third Wednesday. Here is Ted Kooser’s poem, Fairgounds.
Official Business – Ted Kooser
Though he didn’t intend it for our recent One Sentence Poetry contest, 13th Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, sent us this example of what a poet can do with a single sentence.
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.
“Fairgrounds” by Ted Kooser
Our Poem of the Week was first published in fall 2018 issue of Third Wednesday. Here is Ted Kooser’s poem, Fairgounds.
Winter Issue of 3rd Wednesday Magazine
Cover art by Jude Dippold 
New Poems from:
Ted Kooser (13th Poet Laureate of the United States)
“Ohio Blue Tip”
Marge Piercy (Arthur C. Clarke Award Winning Author) 
“An Argument of Crows”
&
“I Observe the Climate Changing and I Complain”
Jack Ridl (2013 INDIES Award Winning Poet)
“Sitting on the Back Deck of Our Houseboat
in Key West a Few Days After Jim Harrison Died”
&
“It’s What He Does Instead”
New Fiction From:
Phillip Sterling (Author: In Which Brief Stories are Told, 
Wayne State University Press, 2011)
“Recognition”
Third Wednesday Magazine 