17 Thursday Oct 2019
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Alison Palmer, winner of the 2015 Atlantis Award, has an interview about her contribution to SMITTEN a collection of poetry written by women for women. Check it out.
https://thefeatheredsleepcom.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/poets-of-smitten-speak-alison-palmer/
01 Saturday Dec 2018
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We are thrilled to announce our 2018 pushcart nominees. Congratulations to these wonderful poets.
“Shahzaman” By Julio Cesar Villegas
“Paola” By Julio Cesar Villegas
“Pull-n-Peel Licorice Twists” By Mary Rood
“My Mother’s Face” By Claire Scott
“Group Therapy” By James Roach
Currently we are accepting submissions to the Bermuda Triangle Prize.
And don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
18 Thursday Oct 2018
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Check out this new book from contributor and Pangea Prize finalist for multiple years Rob Carney.
https://www.blacklawrence.com/the-book-of-sharks/
13 Saturday Oct 2018
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The Atlantis Award is given to 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. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 1st*
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
07 Sunday Oct 2018
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An excerpt from our newly published interview with Alison Palmer.
“I want the reader to feel empathy towards the hunter and the hunted. I am an extremely hopeless and a very curious romantic, and I enjoy learning the psychology behind why we put ourselves through the rigors of dating, desire, marriage, monogamy, divorce. I’ve come to the conclusion that we are both utterly defenseless and relentlessly ruthless toward one another (and nature), ideas that drive the collection as a whole.”
Read the entire interview here.
Alison Palmer is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). She earned an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College, where she was the recipient of the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize. The Poet’s Billow chose Alison for their 2015 Atlantis Poetry Prize, and in 2017 she was a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, The Los Angeles Review, River Styx, Bear Review, Glass, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Alison currently lives and writes just outside Washington, D.C.
26 Saturday May 2018
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The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the Pangaea Prize – the deadline is June 1st.
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. Click here to read last year’s winner, Marjorie Stelmach who is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently, Falter (Cascade Books, 2017). Previous books include Without Angels (Mayapple), A History of Disappearance and Bent upon Light (Tampa).
In the past we have hosted readings at AWP to which we invite all our contributors. We also nominate for the Pushcart Prize, the Best New Poets anthology, and have had contributors as finalists for Best of the Net.
Find more at our contest page or our homepage Thepoetsbillow.org
You can also stay updated by following us on Facebook and Twitter.
27 Friday Oct 2017
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The deadline for the Atlantis Award is November 1st. There are only a few days left to submit. Fill our inbox with great poetry!
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $250 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. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. Click For 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.
28 Friday Jul 2017
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The Atlantis Award is given for an outstanding poem. The winning poet receives $250 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. 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.
To enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.
Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery
Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
19 Sunday Feb 2017
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J
udge Mike Dockins has chosen M. Wright’s poem “Ancient Future” as the winner of the 2016 Atlantis award. He has also chosen a number of finalists and honorable mentions that all have wonder poems. You can read them all here.
M. Wright is the author of the chapbook Dear Dementia (Ghost City Press, April 2017). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Squawk Back, Maudlin House, Ghost City Review, L’Éphémère Review, Bombus Press, Barely South Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, cahoodaloodaling, and Temenos Journal. More at: wrightm.com Twitter: @m__wright
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.
WINNER:
M. Wright – “Ancient Future”
FINALISTS (in no particular order):
Jonathan Travelstead – “Public Domain”
June Blumenson – “Ode to a Glacier”
Janet Joyner – “Twenty-nine Notches”
HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order):
Jonathan Travelstead – “Crowd Source”
Brett Salsbury – “This Hue Only Exists Here”
JP Allen – “Love Song with Lag”
Erin Armstrong – “A Cartographer”
Lisa Zou – “Blind Mammal(s)”
Gail Waldstein – “pulse”
28 Friday Oct 2016
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The deadline for the at Atlantis Award is November 1st. There are only a few days left to submit. Fill our inbox with great poetry!
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will bepublished 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.
Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery
Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
