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Why poems are good for you, by a load of poets

06 Wednesday Jul 2022

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jessica-delp-eI_bxQQINRE-unsplashEnjoy this wonderful article on the importance of poetry. Here are some excerpts: 

Kate Camp 
“Poetry is important because it gets into your bones, like music does, and then it’s always with you.” 

Susan Paris 
“That initial mystery in the first few lines is hard to beat. The wonder of where you’re headed, and the nature of the guide.” 

Ian Wedde ONZM 
“Poetry is important because it makes many different ways of seeing, experiencing and understanding other than literal ones – it subverts the predictable, it makes us think twice and see differently, it reorients or destabilises the relationships between language making sense and language unmaking sense we take for granted.” 

Cliff Fell 
“Poetry is important because it is what it is, the musical truth of human language.” 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/129129886/why-poems-are-good-for-you-by-a-load-of-poets

Writing Contest Deadline May 31

27 Friday May 2022

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Tree in a dense forestThere are only a few more days to submit to the Pangaea Poetry Prize: Deadline: May 31. The winner poet will receive publication, a cash prize, and be offered an interview to be published on The Poet’s Billow website.

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 All poems must be previously unpublished.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.

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. Finalists will also be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read our previous winners and finalists.

Visit the Pangaea Prize Contest Page for more information on how to submit.

Poetry Contest Deadline: April 30

24 Sunday Apr 2022

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Poetry, In the beginningOnly a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. 

Send us your poems on the theme of change. The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets. 

Current Theme: Beginning (2021-2022 Theme) 

We are open to interpretations on the theme: person change, spiritual change, chemical change, morphing into a giant planet-eating robot.

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. 

Submission deadline: April 30, 2022 

Click here to go to contest page

Interview with Marjorie Stelmach

06 Sunday Mar 2022

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Read our new interview with winner of the 2017 Pangaea Prize Marjorie Stelmach, author of The Angel of Absolute Zero, upcoming in 2022 from Cascade. 

Here is an excerpt:

“We carry time inside us, coded in ways we can’t begin to decode. By trying to make meaning of the little piece of time we individually carry, and, of course, failing, we tend to maintain a microscopic view, which isn’t, perhaps, the best thing for producing a clear-eyed vision. There is, I believe, a larger text, but that requires the occasional shift to the telescope or to imagination or prayer. I try to shift back and forth, if possible, from the personal to the cosmic – which brings with it a sense of vertigo.”

Read the Interview From 2022

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26 Sunday Dec 2021

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Let The Poet’s Billow help you reach your writing, revision, and publishing goals in the New Year! For more details click this link.

Poetry Contest Deadline: November 30th

26 Friday Nov 2021

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There are only a few days left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Deadline is November 30. 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.

Poetry Submission Period Open For The 2021 Atlantis Award

02 Friday Jul 2021

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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. 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.

To enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.

Poetry Deadline Approaching

07 Saturday Mar 2020

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Only 1 week left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Fire.

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.

Current Theme: Fire (2019-2020 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: Forest fires, magical fire, the absences of fire, your fired, how to extinguish a fire, the fires of passion. 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.

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2020

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Contest Deadline November 1st

19 Saturday Oct 2019

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Two weeks 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. Deadline November 1st.

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

Poetry Contest Deadline Extended

12 Saturday Oct 2019

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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. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 1st*

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

See our submission page for details.

Read last year’s winner and finalists.

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