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Tag Archives: Haiku

Mary K O’Melveny: Atlantis Award Finalist

05 Thursday Mar 2026

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From Reflections On The Fires This Time

These days, flames rise, twist, dance in every direction.

It feels like everything we know is burning.

Some fear end times. Others see resurrection….

Read more by Mary K O’Melveny

Mary K O’Melveny, a happily retired attorney, is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. Her most recent, If You Want To Go To Heaven, Follow A Songbird (Jerry Jazz Musician 2024) is an album of poems, art and music available at Jerry Jazz Musician. Mary’s award-winning poems have appeared in many print and online literary journals and anthologies and on international blog sites. Mary’s collection Flight Patterns was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her book, Merging Star Hypotheses (Finishing Line Press 2019) was a semi-finalist for The Washington Prize, sponsored by The Word Works. Mary has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. She is an active member of the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group and her poetry appears in the Group’s two published anthologies, An Apple In Her Hand and Rethinking The Ground Rules. Mary lives with her wife near Woodstock, New York. She is looking for a home for a fifth collection. Mary’s website is: https://www.marykomelvenypoet.com. 

2024 Pangaea Prize Runner-up

25 Wednesday Feb 2026

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From Watching

The lack I am.  I talk and talk yet accomplish little. 
The pigeons purr from the palapa rafters as a bedlam
of adoring fans.  God bless them for not judging me…

Read more by Nicholas Skaldetvind

Nicholas Skaldetvind was born in New York.

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

19 Thursday Feb 2026

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. 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.

Full Submission Guidelines

2024 Pangaea Prize Winner

17 Tuesday Feb 2026

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From Another Future

Another future disappears from the future
suspended in superposition
blinking in and out
until the cloud of probabilities
collapses into tea and toast
in the pale morning light…

Read the rest of the winning poems by Claire Scott

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize
nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary
Review, New Ohio Review
 and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the
author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

02 Monday Feb 2026

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. 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.

Full Submission Guidelines

April Poetry Workshop

25 Monday Mar 2024

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Come write with us! Journey with us as we celebrate April #poetrymonth.

This is a 4-week workshop. There are two options for what day of the week you would like to meet: Thursday or Saturday.

Workshops

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

09 Saturday Mar 2024

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

Current Theme: Relationships

We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. 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.

Full Submission Guidelines
Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize

5-Week Virtual Poetry Workshop

14 Sunday Jan 2024

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February – 5-week virtual poetry workshop 

Thursdays @ 6:00-8:00 EST

Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.

Reduced Pricing: $375 $300 – Leap into the New Year: Join us for a poetry workshop and have 5 new poems ready for spring submissions. The fifth workshop week in February is free to celebrate 2024 being a leap year. 

Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com

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Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Now Open for Submissions

24 Friday Nov 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: Relationships (2023-2024 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. 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.

See our full submission guidelines.

Wednesday Poetry Workshop

09 Sunday Oct 2022

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Registration for the Wednesday Workshop is open! Simply sign up using Calendly. Just click the calendar below. Or click here to Learn More.

The Poet's Billow Online Poetry Workshop
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