Our Poem of the Week was first published in fall 2018 issue of Third Wednesday. Here is Ted Kooser’s poem, Fairgounds.
“Fairgrounds” by Ted Kooser
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“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/
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Serena
Our poem of the week is by Serena Richardson, a New Jersey poet, who appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of Third Wednesday. This piece begs the reader to pick up a pen and write a poem of their own.
The Violin Maker
Our poem of the week comes to us from Maureen Daniels. Maureen lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is studying with former poet laureate, Ted Kooser. (poetry – not violin making)
Wet Leaves, November
Rogue Coyote
Our poem of the week from Indiana’s, Andrew Hubbard, appeared in the Winter 2017 issue of Third Wednesday. We can’t love this one enough.
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