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Announcing Winners for the 2021 Pangaea Prize

28 Thursday Apr 2022

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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Kieran Dieter has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Pangaea Prize; and Martha Brenckle has been selected as the runner-up. The winning poems can be read on the 2021 Pangaea Prize announcement page. 

The Poet’s Billow is now welcoming submissions to the 2022 Bermuda Triangle Prize—Deadline April 30; and to the 2022 Pangaea Prize—Deadline May 1. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

About our Winner & Runner-Up:

Kieran Dieter is a writer, artist, and educator. Their poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Atticus Review, FIELD, Juked, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. They were a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize and Third Coast’s Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction. They live with their family in Providence, RI.

 

Martha Catherine Brenckle is a Professor at the University of Central Florida where she teaches First-year Writing and Rhetorical Theory. She writes poetry and fiction and has published most recently in The Sea Letter, Clockhouse Review, Broken Bridge Review, Burningword Literary Magazine, Bryant Literary Review and Poets Billow among others. In 2000, she won the Central Florida United Arts Award for Poetry. Her first novel, Street Angel (2006) and was nominated for a Lambda Award and a Triangle Award and was a Finalist for Fence Magazine’s 2007 Best GLBT Novel Award. In 2019, Finishing Line Press published her poetry chapbook, Hard Letters and Folded Wings. Currently, Martha serves as the Treasurer for the GLBTQ+ Museum of Central Florida. 

Wednesday Workshop

07 Monday Mar 2022

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The Poet's Billow
Online Poetry Workshop
Wednesday Workshop

Do you want friendly honest feedback on your poetry without having to commit hundreds of dollars on month long seminars, travel, or packed zoom meetings where all the participants windows are the size of dimes? Then join the intimate, small-group sessions of our Wednesday Workshops. No need to commit to a month of sessions! Join us week to week at your convenience.

Wednesday Workshop is a meeting held weekly where participants share one poem which receives feedback from other workshop participants and a workshop leader who is an award winner poet. These are small groups, so space is limited.

Time: Every Wednesday @ 12:00pm PST/ 3:00pm EST

Length: 1 hour Session

Size: 1-5 participants

Cost: $35

How to Register:

Send an email with the date of a workshop to reserve your space to Thepoetsbillow[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact page

Poetry will be uploaded in google classroom during the workshop. You do not need a google ID or gmail account to join.

Winners of the 2021 Bermuda Triangle Prize

13 Thursday Jan 2022

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said-alamri-40w3HuwLM0I-unsplashThe Poet’s Billow has selected Emily Light, Becca Rae Rose, and Michael Samra as the winners of 2021 Bermuda Triangle Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2021 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 2022 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.

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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.

Interview with Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Author of The Ache and the Wing

28 Wednesday Jul 2021

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Contributor, Sunni Brown Wilkinson finalist of the 2013 Atlantis Award, was interviewed for the release of an award-winning chapbook The Ache and the Wing, Editorial Intern Nikki Lyssy sat with Wilkinson to discuss the relationship between hope and loss, the many different selves we live, and honoring grief through remembrance. Click here for the full interview.

Download your copy of The Ache and the Wing for free here!

In this excerpt Sunni has this to say about the beginning of the collection:

Sunni Brown Wilkinson: In the opening poem (“Rodeo”), something in the speaker is broken. I don’t say what outright, but it becomes apparent in the poems directly following: we had just lost our youngest son. I did feel like my body was literally broken. I was recovering from my fourth C-section, I was 40, and the baby we had anxiously been awaiting was stillborn. I’d never known how physically crippling grief could be, and I barely had the strength to get through each day. And in that opening poem, there actually aren’t any birds, just a hummingbird hawk moth, which looks like the tiniest bird but is in fact an insect. So in that first poem, I would say there’s just heaviness and struggle, no wingspan, very little to lift the body toward lightness.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson‘s poetry can be found in Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, SWWIM, Crab Orchard Review and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019, finalist for the Hudson Prize) and The Ache and the Wing (winner of Sundress’s 2020 Chapbook Prize). She also won New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize and the 2020 Joy Harjo Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.

Winner of the 2020 Pangaea Prize

17 Saturday Jul 2021

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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Marlo Starr has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Pangaea Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2020 Pangaea Prize 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 Atlantis Award. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

About our Winner:

starr-2020-photoMarlo Starr writes and teaches in Baltimore. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and a PhD in English from Emory University. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in BOAAT, The Threepenny Review, Berfrois, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere.

Poet’s New Website and Blog

13 Tuesday Jul 2021

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Karla Linn Merrifield has been a finalist for many poet’s billow’s poetry awards, published over ten collections of poems, and is published widely. She now has a website where you can learn more about her many talents and travels. Check it out: https://karlalinnmerrifield.org/books/

Karla also has a blog you can subscribe to: https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com/

At The Muses’ Refugia blog there will be:

  • Musings about poetry
  • Book reviews
  • Interviews with poets, musicians and artists 
  • New book alerts
  • Photographs and music
  • Special guest posts 
  • Helpful writing resources
  • Occasional foodie observations, including recipes (cooking is an art!)

Independent Publishers Book Award Winner: Michelle Bonczek Evory

08 Thursday Jul 2021

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Congratulations to our Poetry Mentor, Michelle Bonczek Evory, who won a 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award for her collection The Ghost of Lost Animals. The book was published last year by Gunpowder Press when it won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.  

Michelle is available for one-on-one mentoring sessions and manuscript reviews of poetry, nonfiction, & fiction. The Poet’s Billow provides one-on-one study with published, working writers and professors who will cater lessons, assignments, and readings to you individually. Mentoring integrates today’s technology with traditional immersions in reading, writing, and discussion to allow students and mentors to develop close relationships and conduct deep discussions about the art of poetry and the act of writing it. Specific foci and scheduling are designed to fit your schedule and needs and can range from one-time meetings to extended, regular interactions.

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.

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