27 Friday Sep 2019
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The deadline for the Atlantis Award is fast approaching. It is Tuesday October 1st. We love reading the work that you all send us. Please, continue to send us your best.
https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/
20 Friday Sep 2019
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We are so pleased to post the winner and finalist for the 2018 Atlantis Award. Jennifer Hollis is our winner. N.L. Pillman the runner-up and Jari Chevalier, Emily K. Michael, and Amber Thompson our finalists. Congratulations to them and to our semifinalists.
We are currently accepting submissions for the 2019 Atlantis Award. If you are interested please submit!
12 Thursday Sep 2019
Emily K. Michael, finalist for the Atlantis Award, talks on WJXT4 The Local Station / News4JAX about poetry, teaching, and her new book Neoteny. This is a great interview with a fascinating poet.
https://www.news4jax.com/video/neoteny-poems-video
30 Friday Aug 2019
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We are looking for the best, most unique, and interesting poems out there for the 2019 Atlantis Award. There are no restrictions on length, style, or subject. We just want poems that make it so we can’t stop reading, ones that make us want to write. Deadline October 1st. Follow the link for submission guidelines.
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
28 Wednesday Aug 2019
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Hats off to Claire Scott who, for the second year in a row, is the runner-up for the Pangaea Prize contest. Read some her poems from the 2018 prize here.
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. 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.
24 Saturday Aug 2019
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Congratulations to the Alexandra Umlas who won the 2018 Pangaea Prize. This is an awesome crown of sonnets on the theme of work. Follow the link to read her poetry.
You can read the runner-up and finalists here.
Alexandra Umlas is the author of the full-length poetry collection At the Table of the Unknown (Moon Tide Press). She serves as a reader for Palette Poetry and on the board of directors of Tebot Bach, a non-profit literary organization. A recent graduate of the M.F.A. Poetry program at California State University, Long Beach, she currently teaches English and lives in Huntington Beach, CA with her husband and two daughters. www.alexandraumlas.com
07 Sunday Apr 2019
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The Poet’s Billow has selected Catherine Cryan, Eric Hertz, and Richard Thompson as the winners of 2018 Bermuda Triangle Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2018 Bermuda Triangle announcement page.
We also named a number of semifinalists. This was a difficult list to make and hard decisions were made on every level of judging. We receive so many great poems and don’t have the resources to publish them all.
The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Bermuda Triangle Prize and the Pangaea Prize. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
01 Saturday Dec 2018
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We are thrilled to announce our 2018 pushcart nominees. Congratulations to these wonderful poets.
“Shahzaman” By Julio Cesar Villegas
“Paola” By Julio Cesar Villegas
“Pull-n-Peel Licorice Twists” By Mary Rood
“My Mother’s Face” By Claire Scott
“Group Therapy” By James Roach
Currently we are accepting submissions to the Bermuda Triangle Prize.
And don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
28 Sunday Oct 2018
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The deadline for the Atlantis Award is November 1st. There are only a few days left to submit. Fill our inbox with great poetry!
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. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. Click For Guidelines.
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
Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
24 Wednesday Oct 2018
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We are happy to announce that our poet Michelle Bonczek Evory’s poetry manuscript The Ghosts of Lost Animals has been chosen by poet Lee Herrick as the recipient of the 2018 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize through Gunpowder Press. Herrick writes of the book:
“Michelle Bonczek Evory’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals is full of risk, reward, gravity, invention, and surprise. There is a hunger and desire resonating through the poems that evoke the carpe diem theme with a gorgeous lyric velocity, curiosity, and wisdom. These poems explore the natural world, love and lovers, divorce and marriage, and I kept coming back to them again and again. This is a brave new voice and a marvelous book.”
Learn more about the press, contest, and Michelle by clicking here.
