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It’s Just Chips

Published on March 28, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Guinotte Wise has been featured often in the pages of Third Wednesday. He is a sculptor as well as a poet. You can see some of his work at http://www.wisesculpture.com/ . Here is our poem of the week.

ItsJustChips

Autumn 2017 by Bruce Pemberton

Published on March 11, 2019 by Editorial Staff1 Comment

Our congratulations to Bruce Pemberton whose first published poem has been chosen for national distribution by American Life in Poetry.

It was first published in Third Wednesday.

Special Soap

Published on March 4, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Bellingham, Washington is a hotbed of poetry judging by the quality of the submissions Third Wednesday receives from there. We almost always find something worthy of publication. This one, by Sarah Murphy-Kangas, is a prime example. It’s Third Wednesday’s poem of the week.

SpecialSoap

Late Summer Rain

Published on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Our poem of the week was a winning poem in Third Wednesday’s most recent “One Sentence Poetry Contest”. This is the second win for Virginia poet, Mark Madigan.

The newest iteration of this popular contest is open for entries until April 15, 2019.

LateSummerRain

I Have No Thoughts of Cosmological Matters – Our Poem of the Week

Published on February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 by Editorial Staff

This week’s poem is a Triolet from M. B. Powell, a Washington poet who has three tiolets in the winter issue of Third Wednesday. The poet’s chapbook, Lovers, Mothers, Killers, Others is published by Finishing Line Press, 2013.

tri·o·let

/ˈtrēələt/

noun

A poem of eight lines, rhyming abaaabab and so structured that the first line recurs as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth.

Photo credit: NASA Hubble Telescope

Tip For Writers

Published on February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Use vs. Utilize

Most people, judging by the number of times I see them misused, don’t know that utilize and use have different meanings. They are not interchangeable. You use an object for a purpose common to that object, while you might utilize an object for a purpose not common to that object. For instance you use a pen to write, but you might utilize a pen to perform an emergency tracheotomy. You would use a dime to pay for a gumball but you might utilize a dime to tighten or loosen a screw.