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How to Write a Poem by Campbell McGrath
07 Thursday Aug 2014
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Poetry: Who Needs It?
16 Wednesday Jul 2014
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“A century ago, poetry did not appear in little magazines devoted to it, but on the pages of newspapers and mass-circulation magazines. The big magazines and even the newspapers began declining about the time they stopped printing poetry.” — William Logan
This is a great article. Read it here: Poetry: Who Needs It?
Winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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The Poets Billow is happy to announce the winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize. Here is an except from Caitlin Scarano’s Entry. Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read seven of her finally crafted poems.
Losing It
God came to me like a drunken man
running from a car accident. God came
at me with a mouth full of snow, blood
& broken teeth. I used to be alone.
I used to wake up without an arm across my neck.
No boys or gods licking the sole of my shoe
or testing the rope ladder hooked in my lower lip.
Sinning is storytelling –
you always look them in the eye. Your body
always betrays you. God came to me
like the accident itself. No, he came at me like the tree
that parted the car, or the girl that parted
the windshield. The only car accident I was ever in
was the night I lost my virginity in the backseat.
God wasn’t there.
Just a frightened, frightened boy.
The Best Defense Ever for Breastfeeding in Public: A Poem
09 Tuesday Jul 2013
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We’ve heard a lot of thoughtful, impassioned arguments from moms who have to defend their rights to breastfeed in public, but we’ve never come across anything quite as powerful as this.
Hollie McNish, a published U.K. poet and spoken word artist, posted this video entitled “Embarrassed” on YouTube on July 4, that slowly but surely became a viral sensation.
Check it out: Embarrassed
Then check us out on Facebook: The Poet’s Billow
Atlantis Award for Best Poem: Submission Period Now Open
01 Monday Jul 2013
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The Atlantis Award is awarded to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $100 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 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. If the poet qualifies, the poem will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.
Up to five runners-up will be considered for publication and a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Follow this link for guidelines on how to enter: Atlantis Award
Read last year winners here: 2012 Atlantis
Why I Hire English Majors by Steve Strauss
29 Saturday Jun 2013
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I love English majors. I love how smart they are. I love their intellectual curiosity. And I love their bold choice for a major. Most of all, I love to hire them.
A recent article by the great David Brooks in the New York Times about the changing nature of the Humanities in higher education just reinforced why, when given my druthers, English majors are my employee of choice.
And the reason is not that I am a writer; I more consider myself an entrepreneur than anything else. I run a small business and the people I hire do a variety of tasks — SEO, project management, social media, and so forth.
For my money (literally and figuratively), for my needs, and I suggest the needs of most small businesses, English majors are easily the top choice when it comes to getting the type of teammate who can make us all better, as they say in basketball.
Read the rest of the article by Steve Strauss at the Huffington Post
Online Poetry Workshop Starting July 7th
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/
Online Poetry Workshop Starting July 7th
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/
Celebrating Michelle Bonczek’s New Chapbook
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.
Pangaea Poetry Prize Submission Period Now Open
18 Friday Jan 2013
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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, 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.
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