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Poetry Contest Deadline Extended

23 Thursday Mar 2023

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

Current Theme: Water & Earth (2022-2023 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: drought, floods, beverages, images from across the world; ice, fire; seeds, drops of dew on the back of an ant. 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.

Guidelines:

As entries will be read blindly, your name and contact information should not appear on the poems themselves.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send an email if a poem needs to be withdrawn. Multiple submissions are allowed with a paid submission fee for each set of three poems.

Each entry of three poems costs $10 and should be paid through paypal and the poems submitted by email to thepoetsbillow@gmail.com. Please format subject line (First Last name — Bermuda Triangle)

Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.

Deadline May 1st, 2023

Click here for full guidelines

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Join Us for Wednesday Workshop

20 Wednesday Jul 2022

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The Poet's Billow Online Poetry Workshop

Join us for next week’s workshop. Share a poem, read some poems, talk about poems–think about poetry. Be inspired to write new poems. We love Poetry! https://thepoetsbillow.org/wednesday

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 an online poetry workshop 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

Current Instructor: Michelle Bonczek

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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.

A Great Article For Writers At Any Stage In Their Development

24 Thursday Apr 2014

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What I Wish I Knew After My MFA Ended

 

A guest post from Sara Finnerty:

420-Jacquelyn-Mitchard-splits-limbo-looking-back.imgcache.rev1308082218874In the years after I got my MFA I was a miserable mess. I felt like a failure as a writer and a human being. I still feel that way sometimes, but now I try and fail and try again and I know that does not mean I am a failure, it only means I am a person like everyone else. If I could, here are some things I would tell my self six years ago when I was finishing graduate school.

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The Decline and Fall of the English Major

24 Monday Jun 2013

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In the past few years, I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard, Yale, Bard, Pomona, Sarah Lawrence and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Each semester I hope, and fear, that I will have nothing to teach my students because they already know how to write. And each semester I discover, again, that they don’t.

They can assemble strings of jargon and generate clots of ventriloquistic syntax. They can meta-metastasize any thematic or ideological notion they happen upon. And they get good grades for doing just that. But as for writing clearly, simply, with attention and openness to their own thoughts and emotions and the world around them — no.

That kind of writing — clear, direct, humane — and the reading on which it is based are the very root of the humanities, a set of disciplines that is ultimately an attempt to examine and comprehend the cultural, social and historical activity of our species through the medium of language.

This is a great article read the rest at the nytimes.com

Brief and Unsettling Writing Tips from George Saunders

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Brief and Unsettling Writing Tips from George Saunders.

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