01 Sunday Sep 2013
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The Poets Billow editor and poetry mentor, Michelle Bonczek is selected for Best New Poets 2013.
http://bestnewpoets.org/blog/2013/8/28/announcing-our-50-best-new-poets-of-2013
28 Friday Jun 2013
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Register for The Poet’s Billow July 7th workshop by 11:59pm on July 1st for a reduced price.
We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.
This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing.
This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.
Go to our Workshop Page for how to sign up.
21 Friday Jun 2013
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The Poet’s Billow is starting an online poetry workshop July 7th run by poet and author Michelle Bonczek.
This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.
This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing.
We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.
For more information on the workshop and to sign up for the workshop visit the workshop page on the poet’s billow website: https://thepoetsbillow.org/workshops/
Find out more information about the workshop leader Michelle Bonczek at: https://thepoetsbillow.org/our-poets/michelle-bonczek/
21 Friday Jun 2013
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The Poet’s Billow is starting an online poetry workshop July 7th run by poet and author Michelle Bonczek.
This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.
This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing.
We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.
For more information on the workshop and to sign up for the workshop visit the workshop page on the poet’s billow website: https://thepoetsbillow.org/workshops/
Find out more information about the workshop leader Michelle Bonczek at: https://thepoetsbillow.org/our-poets/michelle-bonczek/
10 Friday May 2013
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The Deadline for the Poets Billow Pangaea Prize is in 5 days. If you would like to enter get your submission in by May 15th.
The winning poet receives $100 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery, at least one of the winning poems will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Finalists will also be considered for publication and nomination. If the winning poet qualifies, two poems will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.
See the Poets Billow website for full guidelines.
29 Monday Apr 2013
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The deadline to enter The Poets Billow Pangaea Prize has been extended to May 15th.
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.
Go to The Poets Billow for full Guidelines.
05 Friday Apr 2013
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Michelle Bonczek, Poet’s Billow editor and poetry mentor, is celebrating the release of her new chapbook The Art of the Nipple (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2013), and we are celebrating with her. Pick up a copy if you would like to support and read some great poetry.
21 Thursday Feb 2013
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Doutrope has posted their interview with The Poets Billow editors Michelle Bonczek and Robert Evory on their website. Get a behind the scenes look at how we run our poetry competitions, who our favorite writers are, and what our judging process is like.
14 Thursday Feb 2013
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Your poem “Breaking Sky,” which won the 2012 Atlantis Award, opens with an imaginary, surreal image and progresses into the tangible, real world of birth and death. The tone shifts from something that at first seems playful and distant into an elegy for the speaker’s mother and loss of memory. How did this poem develop for you in the writing process itself? Did you know that the poem was moving toward the death of a mother? Or is it something that surprised you in the process itself?
I’m not really sure how the poem “started” in my head, but yes, this sudden appearance by my mother does happen often when I’m writing. My mother’s slip into dementia was one of the most stunning occurrences in my entire life. That first encounter with her when I knew she wasn’t in touch with reality was a gut punch for sure. The memory of it doesn’t get dim either. I think in this particular poem it came from talking about the piece of the sky, how you were once like a piece of sky falling from the mother’s thighs to my mother. It just happened. And no, I didn’t know when I began writing the poem.
19 Saturday Jan 2013
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