About Derold Ernest Sligh and Third Coast

Today's poem is "Rouge River"

from Third Coast

Derold Ernest Sligh currently lives in South Korea and was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. He received an MA from Central Michigan University and an MFA from San Diego State University. He was the recipient of the J.L. Carroll Arnett Creative Writing Award. He was a guest poet at the Theodore Roethke Memorial where he ran a workshop for African American fathers and sons. His work has appeared in American Poetry Journal, Konundrum Engine, Catamaran Literary Reader, Santa Clara Review, Temenos, Third Coast, and Saw Palm, among other publications.
Other poems on the web by Derold Ernest Sligh:
"If My Heart Were a City, It Would Be Saginaw, Michigan"
"As The Skylark Sings"
Two poems
"Septemberbirt"
"Preface to a Coyote Dream"
About Third Coast:

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Poetry Editor: Elizabyth Hiscox & Glenn Shaheen
Other poems by Third Coast in Verse Daily:
August 19, 2019: "History" by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
February 7, 2019: "A Name for Illness I Knew, but Couldn't Say" Chelsea Dingman
February 4, 2019: "Because There's No Emoji for Memory" Lara Egger
November 13, 2015: "Ostrichland" by Kristin Robertson
November 12, 2015: "Grandeur in a mug of wine" by Alexis Pope
June 25, 2014: "Narrative" by Jenny Molberg
June 24, 2014: "A mother poem" by Tom Useted
November 21, 2013: "Hurricane Birds" by dawn lonsinger
November 19, 2013: "Nocturne" by Max Somers
November 18, 2013: "A Taste, With Explosions of Woody and Floral Undertones" by Katie Jean Shinkle

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