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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

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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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.

Pangaea Prize Winner Announcement

06 Saturday Feb 2021

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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that our judge Sara Lupita Olivares has chosen Peter Filkins as the winner of the 2019 Pangaea Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2019 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 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.

About our judge:

Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (The University of Arkansas Press), which was selected as winner of the 2020 CantoMundo Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Field Things (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Currently she lives in northern New Mexico where she is an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University. https://www.saralupitaolivares.com

About our Winner:

Peter Filkins is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Water / Music, will be published by Johns Hopkins UP in April 2021. His previous volume, The View We’re Granted, received the Sheila Margaret Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and his poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, Poetry, The American Scholar, The N.Y. Times Book Review, and numerous other publications. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and courses in translation at Bard College. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/water-music

Poetry Contest Deadline

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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Hello Poets! The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the 2020 Pangaea Prize.

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.

You can view our guidelines here.

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

If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us 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

2017 Bermuda Triangle Prize Winners and Finalists

16 Saturday Sep 2017

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Congratulations to our winners and finalists of the 2017 Bermuda Triangle Prize. This year’s judge Andrea England picked out wonderful poems on the theme of Revolution. Go give them a read.

Winner
Fran Markover – On the Fourth of July
Kurt Luchs – Winter Begins
Emily Rosello Mercurio – On the Conservation of Energy

Finalists
Emily Rosello Mercurio – Holocene
Alex Umlas – This Is an Alternative Poem
Alex Umlas – 2 am
Jen Karetnick – 23andMe Says My Body Is a Sanctuary City
Jen Karetnick – Mobility
Jennifer Reimer  – A Week After the Failed Military Coup
Laura Shovan – Baking Challah

The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Atlantis Award: Deadline October 1st. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

Seven European Literary Journals You Should Know

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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Everybody knows The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, AGNI and The Kenyon Review but which European (including British) magazines should a poet-in-the-know be sending work to? Which magazines should a reader-in-the-know be reading? Let B O D Y guide you hither and thither with our recommendations of literary publications from the U.K and Europe who are doing (and publishing) good work.

Read the full article at: Body: Poetry. Prose. Word.

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