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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Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send an email if a poem needs to be withdrawn.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

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Submission Deadline Approaching

12 Saturday Nov 2022

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Now Accepting Submissions to the 2022 Atlantis Award & Bermuda Triangle Prize

 
 

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 website. 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. Deadline Extended Nov. 30

 

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets. 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. Deadline March 15

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Join us for Wednesday Workshop

 

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 winning 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 Evory

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Atlantis Award Winners 2021

11 Sunday Sep 2022

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Atlantis Award Winner
of 2021​

Winner:
Hannah Schultz – Three Poems

Finalists:
Pamela Wax – “Relativity”
Lee Landau – “Echo from the Future”
Deborah Doolitte – Two Poems

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Now Accepting Submissions to the 2022 Atlantis Award

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 website. 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.

Deadline October 1st, 2022

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Poetry Workshop Registration is Now Easier!

12 Friday Aug 2022

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Registering for the Wednesday Workshop is now even easier! Simply sign up using Calendly. Just click the calendar below.

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Poetry Submission Period Open For The 2022 Atlantis Award

15 Friday Jul 2022

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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. Finalists will be considered for publication.

Atlantis Award Guidelines

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.

Ada Limon Named New U.S. Poet Laureate

12 Tuesday Jul 2022

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Why poems are good for you, by a load of poets

06 Wednesday Jul 2022

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jessica-delp-eI_bxQQINRE-unsplashEnjoy this wonderful article on the importance of poetry. Here are some excerpts: 

Kate Camp 
“Poetry is important because it gets into your bones, like music does, and then it’s always with you.” 

Susan Paris 
“That initial mystery in the first few lines is hard to beat. The wonder of where you’re headed, and the nature of the guide.” 

Ian Wedde ONZM 
“Poetry is important because it makes many different ways of seeing, experiencing and understanding other than literal ones – it subverts the predictable, it makes us think twice and see differently, it reorients or destabilises the relationships between language making sense and language unmaking sense we take for granted.” 

Cliff Fell 
“Poetry is important because it is what it is, the musical truth of human language.” 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/129129886/why-poems-are-good-for-you-by-a-load-of-poets

Writing Contest Deadline May 31

27 Friday May 2022

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Tree in a dense forestThere are only a few more days to submit to the Pangaea Poetry Prize: Deadline: May 31. The winner poet will receive publication, a cash prize, and be offered an interview to be published on The Poet’s Billow website.

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.

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

Visit the Pangaea Prize Contest Page for more information on how to submit.

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. 

Poetry Contest Deadline: April 30

24 Sunday Apr 2022

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Poetry, In the beginningOnly a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. 

Send us your poems on the theme of change. The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets. 

Current Theme: Beginning (2021-2022 Theme) 

We are open to interpretations on the theme: person change, spiritual change, chemical change, morphing into a giant planet-eating robot.

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: April 30, 2022 

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