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Third Wednesday & The Inside/Out Literary Project
By immersing students in the joy and power of poetry and literary self-expression, InsideOut inspires them to think broadly, create bravely and share their voices with the wider world. Guided by professional writers and celebrated by publications and performances, youth learn that their stories and ideas matter and that their pens can launch off the page into extraordinary lives.
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Seeking Center
Third Wednesday’s annual poetry contest is accepting entries until February 15th, 2019. Here is a winning poem from 2017 from Washington poet, Cheryl Clough. Judge Larry Levy said: “Seeking Center seems to me one of the most deserving winners in this year’s entries. It demonstrates a strong command of language, economy of expression, and sense of direction. It begins well, builds with an interesting theme in mind, and develops and sustains that theme in surprising and arresting ways.
Read the Winter 2018 Issue
“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.
“Estelle” by Michael Mark
Michael Mark, a frequent contributor to Third Wednesday, is featured in today’s column in American Life in Poetry. Here’s a link to his poem “Estelle” .
Congratulations Michael!
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”
The Cycle
Your Poem of the Week from Third Wednesday’s Fall issue…
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From “Why I Still Write Poetry”
Charles Simic in New York Review of Books:
“The kinds of poems I write—mostly short and requiring endless tinkering—often recall for me games of chess. They depend for their success on word and image being placed in proper order and their endings must have the inevitability and surprise of an elegantly executed checkmate.”
Full article: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/05/15/why-i-still-write-poetry/
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