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March Poetry Workshops: 5-week Long
08 Thursday Feb 2024
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Poetry Workshop: Register Today!
26 Friday Jan 2024
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February – 5-week virtual poetry workshop
Thursdays @ 6:00-8:00 EST
Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.
Reduced Pricing: $375 $300 – Leap into the New Year: Join us for a poetry workshop and have 5 new poems ready for spring submissions. The fifth workshop week in February is free to celebrate 2024 being a leap year.
Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com
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5-Week Virtual Poetry Workshop
14 Sunday Jan 2024
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February – 5-week virtual poetry workshop
Thursdays @ 6:00-8:00 EST
Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.
Reduced Pricing: $375 $300 – Leap into the New Year: Join us for a poetry workshop and have 5 new poems ready for spring submissions. The fifth workshop week in February is free to celebrate 2024 being a leap year.
Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com
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Poetry Contest Deadline: December 15th
01 Friday Dec 2023
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There are only a few days left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Deadline is December 15th. Submit up to 3 poems. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will be considered for publication.
Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Now Open for Submissions
24 Friday Nov 2023
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The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
Current Theme: Relationships (2023-2024 Theme)
We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. 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.
Poetry Contest Deadline: December 15th
13 Monday Nov 2023
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There is only a short time left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Send us your best ground shaking poetry. Win money and be featured in an interview on the Poet’s Billow website. We nominate for post publication prizes. The deadline has been extended to December 15th.
https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/
The Atlantis Award is given for a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem 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.
Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery
. Submit up to 3 poems. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will be considered for publication.
from Crimson, Where It’s Called For: Voices from Redwing, 1888: by Katharyn Machan
08 Tuesday Aug 2023
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Murders don’t happen here anymore.
From Penelope Brown: Redwing, 1888
They used to: in the time of blacksmiths,
when husbands with flaming hammers raged
against wrong priests and fainting wives.
Katharyn Howd Machan’s most recent published collections are Dark Side of the Spoon (Moonstone Press, 2022) and A Slow Bottle of Wine (Comstock Writers, Inc., 2020). A professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca college, she lives in Central New York with her beloved spouse Eric Machan Howd. After many years of coordinating the Ithaca Community Poets and directing the national Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, Inc., she was selected to be her county’s first poet laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, textbooks, and stage productions, and she has edited three thematic anthologies, most recently a tribute collection celebrating the inspiration of Adrienne Rich.
Nils Nelson — Pangaea Prize Finalist, 2022
05 Saturday Aug 2023
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The sun dried your hardwood tendons,
your head came loose.Pick-axe, one swing and this caliche will break us.
Time to shim you up, tell the wheel
From Arizona Garden by Nils Nelson
grind off your burrs.
After Nils Nelson left the University of Arizona with a Janitorial Certificate (and a B.A. in English), he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at Cal State Fresno, ’74. His poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Partisan Review and other suspects, with a new poem due in the Irish magazine, Channel. An avid golfer and award-winning golf writer and editor, his articles have been in numerous national golf magazines. Nils Lives in Tucson, where he’s polishing a full-length manuscript.
Celebrating the Winner of the 2022 Pangaea Prize: Tresha Faye Haefner
02 Wednesday Aug 2023
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From Territorial Boundaries
“See the way we pocket our sadness. Dress
in isolation. Keep the lights on. We can see
what’s coming for us.”
Tresha Faye Haefner is the winner of the 2022 Pangaea Prize. Her poetry appears, or is forthcoming in several journals and magazines, most notably Blood Lotus, Blue Mesa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Five South, Hunger Mountain, Mid-America Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Radar, Rattle, TinderBox and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her work has garnered several accolades, including the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and a 2012, 2020, and 2021 nomination for a Pushcart. Her first manuscript, “Pleasures of the Bear” was a finalist for prizes from both Moon City Press and Glass Lyre Press. It is still looking for a publisher. Find her at www.thepoetrysalon.com.
Poetry Submissions Open for the 2023 Atlantis Award
29 Saturday Jul 2023
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The Atlantis Award is given for a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will be considered for publication.
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery
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