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Tag Archives: 2012

Fragments for the End of the Year

31 Monday Dec 2012

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Fragments for the End of the Year

by Jennifer K. Sweeney

On average, odd years have been the best for me.

I’m at a point where everyone I meet looks like a version
of someone I already know.

Without fail, fall makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never experienced.

The sky is molting. I don’t know
if this is global warming or if the atmosphere is reconfiguring
itself to accommodate all the new bright suffering.

I am struck by an overwhelming need to go to Iceland.

Despite all awful variables, we are still full of ideas
as possible as unsexed fruit.

I was terribly sorry to be the one to explain to the first graders
the connection between the sunset and pollution.

On Venus you and I are not even a year old.

Then there were two skies.
The one we fly through and the one
we bury ourselves in.

I appreciate my wide beveled spatula which fulfills
the moment I realized I would grow up and own such things.

I am glad I do not yet want sexy bathroom accessories.
Such things.

In the story we were together every time.

On his wedding day, the stone in his chest
not fully melted but enough.

Sometimes I feel like there are birds flying out of me.

 

Taken from: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/fragments%20for%20the%20end%20of%20the%20year

Announcing The 2012 Atlantis Award Winner and Runner-Ups

14 Friday Dec 2012

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Francine Witte – Atlantis Award Winner

Breaking Sky

A piece of the sky breaks off
and falls into your coffee cup.

It makes you wonder how shabby
heaven might be getting and what will

it look like when you get there, if,
in fact, you do.  You spoon

the piece from your cup and hold
it between your fingers.  It is perfect
Click to finish the poem

 

 

National Book Awards Winners 2012

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Check out the winners of this years national book awards

http://nationalbook.org/

Young People’s Literature: 
William Alexander
, Goblin Secrets
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)

Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
(Random House)

Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Poet’s Billow Editor Robert Evory Appears in The Baltimore Review

27 Saturday Oct 2012

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We wanted to recognize Robert Evory for his poem “Astronomers” that was just published in The Baltimore Review.

Atlantis Award Deadline Approaching!

13 Saturday Oct 2012

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On Monday, submissions for the Atlantis Award will officially close at midnight

The winning poem will be published on our website and be nominated for any national awards that they qualify for; the poet will be interviewed for the Poet’s Billow website and receive $100.

National Book Awards Finalists Announced: Poetry

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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Let’s support the 2012 National Book Award Finalists for Poetry. Find the rest at the National Book Award Website.

David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press)

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press)

Tim Seibles, Fast Animal (Etruscan Press)

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Susan Wheeler, Meme (University of Iowa Press)

Michelle Bonczek Wins Chapbook Contest

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Just wanted to send out a congratulations to Michelle Bonczek, our poetry editor, mentor, and workshop leader here at The Poets Billow, for winner the Orange Monkey Chapbook contest with her manuscript The Art of the Nipple. 

Deadline Extended for Atlantis Poetry Award

01 Monday Oct 2012

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The Poets Billow’s Atlantis Poetry Award Deadline has been extended to October 15th. You still have two weeks to submit your poems for the prize and receive comments on your work.

https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/

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