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Mary K O’Melveny: Atlantis Award Finalist

05 Thursday Mar 2026

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From Reflections On The Fires This Time

These days, flames rise, twist, dance in every direction.

It feels like everything we know is burning.

Some fear end times. Others see resurrection….

Read more by Mary K O’Melveny

Mary K O’Melveny, a happily retired attorney, is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. Her most recent, If You Want To Go To Heaven, Follow A Songbird (Jerry Jazz Musician 2024) is an album of poems, art and music available at Jerry Jazz Musician. Mary’s award-winning poems have appeared in many print and online literary journals and anthologies and on international blog sites. Mary’s collection Flight Patterns was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her book, Merging Star Hypotheses (Finishing Line Press 2019) was a semi-finalist for The Washington Prize, sponsored by The Word Works. Mary has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. She is an active member of the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group and her poetry appears in the Group’s two published anthologies, An Apple In Her Hand and Rethinking The Ground Rules. Mary lives with her wife near Woodstock, New York. She is looking for a home for a fifth collection. Mary’s website is: https://www.marykomelvenypoet.com. 

Robert Cale: Atlantis Award Finalist

02 Monday Mar 2026

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From Schrodinger’s Cat’s Diary

Entry One:

Trapped in this box, I stretch out across dimensions like the best kind of nap,
but I’m not sure when I am. Past tense? Future perfect? A box inside a box inside a question:
does a cat have nine lives if every life is a guess?

Read more by Robert Cale

Robby Cale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Reiki practitioner living in Whitefish, Montana. This is his first published poem, though he’s spent decades playing with words, performing stand-up, improv comedy, and community theatre. His poetry moves across themes like politics, wellness, and sci-fi, always aiming to stir something real. Robby writes to make sense of uncertainty for himself, and hopefully for others, too.
https://www.youtube.com/@healthandwellnesspoems

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Pangaea Prize Submissions are Open

27 Friday Feb 2026

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*Submissions are Currently Open* 

The Pangaea Prize is awarded for the best series of poems, ranging between two and seven poems in a group. Judging will be based on poems as individual entities as well as their cohesiveness – that can be in terms of common themes, images, narrative, or however else you would like to group your poems. All poems must be previously unpublished.  There are no restrictions on length or style.

The winning poet receives $100 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow website. The winning poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will also be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read our previous winners and finalists.

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2024 Pangaea Prize Runner-up

25 Wednesday Feb 2026

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From Watching

The lack I am.  I talk and talk yet accomplish little. 
The pigeons purr from the palapa rafters as a bedlam
of adoring fans.  God bless them for not judging me…

Read more by Nicholas Skaldetvind

Nicholas Skaldetvind was born in New York.

2024 Atlantis Award Winner

21 Saturday Feb 2026

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From My Missing Piece

I have many things I want to say to you,
to free my mind from the torment of silence,
but I don’t know how and where to start,
that’s why I stand before you paralysed….

Read more by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah is a Pushcart-nominated poet living in the United Kingdom. His poems have been featured in Unleash Lit, The Pierian, Propel Magazine, Atticus Review, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets and elsewhere. He won the Alexander Pope Poetry Award in 2025, and the Poem of the Month of The Literary Shark in February 2025. His first Chapbook, A is for Anfang was released in December 2025 by the Island of Wak-Wak. He was the Editor’s Choice Prize Winner of Unleash Lit in 2024, and the Third Poetry Prize Winner of The Hemlock Poetry Award in 2025.

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

19 Thursday Feb 2026

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. Send us your interpretation, however literal or liberal.

Each winning poem will receive $50, for a total cash prize of $150. The poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Full Submission Guidelines

2024 Pangaea Prize Winner

17 Tuesday Feb 2026

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From Another Future

Another future disappears from the future
suspended in superposition
blinking in and out
until the cloud of probabilities
collapses into tea and toast
in the pale morning light…

Read the rest of the winning poems by Claire Scott

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize
nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary
Review, New Ohio Review
 and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the
author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Keeping AI Out of the Writing Classroom

12 Thursday Feb 2026

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“To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog.” Ditching the laptops for paper and pencils. How important is this for young people in developing their writing voice? How do you nurture yours?
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5631779/ai-schools-teachers-students

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

02 Monday Feb 2026

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. Send us your interpretation, however literal or liberal.

Each winning poem will receive $50, for a total cash prize of $150. The poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Full Submission Guidelines

September Poetry Workshops

11 Sunday Aug 2024

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September – 4-week virtual poetry workshop 

Thursday @ 6:00-8:00 PM EST

Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is an award-winning author with a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.

This interactive workshop is for writers at any level. During the live meeting time one of your poems will be discussed by the workshop group including the workshop instructor. This is a small intimate workshop with 6 seats available.

Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com

Fill out our form to sign up or find out more

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