01 Saturday Aug 2015
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Congratulations to Greg Emilio for his group of poems titled “Bon Vivants Hereafter” which won the 2015 Pangaea Prize. What an awesome set of poems! Selected by Mike Dockins.
Greg Emilio is a Southern California native whose poetry and essays have appeared in Miramar, Pleiades, Spillway, andWorld Literature Today, among others. He’s currently pursuing his PhD in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also fancies himself a decent bartender.
28 Tuesday Jul 2015
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The Poet’s Billow is currently accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award.
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 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.
16 Thursday Jul 2015
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For the past two weeks we have been privileged with the opportunity to live in the historic Klingel House and immerse ourselves in Gettysburg National Military Park, the Gettysburg community, and the surrounding countryside. With each foggy sunrise, each new poem we write, and each photograph we take, we feel ourselves grow more attached to the landscape, to the people, to the history and realize how difficult it is going to be to leave at the end of July.
This morning we watched the day break at the Pennsylvania Memorial Monument, picked up a large coffee to go, and watched the sun light the western hillside from Little Round Top. On our way to the top we passed a very large insect with very large pincers resting on a wooden railing. It had lost half its wing in its own type of battle.
Other mornings we have walked the roads…
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12 Sunday Jul 2015
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The Poet’s Billow is proud to showcase the poems of seven great poets who are our winners and finalists for the 2015 Bermuda Triangle Prize. This year’s poems where published under the theme of space.
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Winners:
Lisa St. John
Evelyn Conley
D. Ellis Phelps
Finalists:
Flower Conroy
Nikki Paley Cox
Libby Kurz
Marti Snell
Semi-Finalists:
Loretta Oleck
Douglas Cole
Ellie White
Karla Linn Merrifield
Bryn Homuth
Ed Coletti
Chris Dingman
Sara Wielenberg
28 Thursday May 2015
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The Pangaea Prize is awarded for the best series of poems ranging between two and up to 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 to length or style. Click here to read last year’s winner, Brittany Cagle.
Submit now. We have already started reading entries and hope to announce a winner by the end of June.
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11 Monday May 2015
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Michelle Bonczek and Robert Evory, founders of The Poet’s Billow, will be the artists-in-residence at Gettysburg National Military Park for the month of July. You can listen to an interview with them about the residency on Nation Public Radio’s program Stateside.
Also for a calendar of events and more information you can visit Thepoetsbillow.org/gettysburg
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02 Saturday May 2015
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The Poets Billow is extending the submission period for the Pangaea Prize until May 31st, 2015.
The Pangaea Prize is awarded for the best series of poems ranging between two and up to 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 to length or style. Click here to read last year’s winner, Brittany Cagle.
Submit now. We have already started reading entries and hope to announce a winner by the end of June.
Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
26 Thursday Mar 2015
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Congratulations to Caitlin Scarano for having her poem “Praise” chosen as a finalist for the Best of the Net Anthology. “Praise” is the first poem in her series that won The Poet’s Billow Pangaea Prize.
Follow the link to read Caitlin’s wonderful collection of poems.
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17 Tuesday Mar 2015
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The deadline for the Bermuda Triangle Prize is March 20th.
The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
Current Theme: Space
Outer space, domestic space, mental space, the space between teeth, we are open to interpretations on the theme. It is up to you how literal or abstract you would like to play on the chosen theme.
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.
Click here to see our guidelines.
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11 Wednesday Mar 2015
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This is an interesting article from The New Yorker about how the internet age has influenced how we make poetry. Below is an excerpt. Read the entire article here.
“Over the past few years, the art world has been throwing around the term “post-Internet” to describe the practices of artists who use the Web as the basis for their work but don’t make a big deal about it. For these artists, unlike those of previous generations, the Web is just another medium, like painting or sculpture. Their artworks move fluidly between spaces, appearing sometimes on a screen, other times in a gallery. A JPEG of a painting is often considered another version of a painting, and vice versa.” –Kenneth Goldsmith
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