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Poetry Contest Deadline: December 15th

13 Monday Nov 2023

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There is only a short time left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Send us your best ground shaking poetry. Win money and be featured in an interview on the Poet’s Billow website. We nominate for post publication prizes. The deadline has been extended to December 15th.

https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-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 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.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

. Submit up to 3 poems. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology. 

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. Finalists will be considered for publication.

from Crimson, Where It’s Called For: Voices from Redwing, 1888: by Katharyn Machan

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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Murders don’t happen here anymore.
They used to: in the time of blacksmiths,
when husbands with flaming hammers raged
against wrong priests and fainting wives.

From Penelope Brown: Redwing, 1888
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Katharyn Howd Machan’s most recent published collections are Dark Side of the Spoon (Moonstone Press, 2022) and A Slow Bottle of Wine (Comstock Writers, Inc., 2020). A professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca college, she lives in Central New York with her beloved spouse Eric Machan Howd. After many years of coordinating the Ithaca Community Poets and directing the national Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, Inc., she was selected to be her county’s first poet laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, textbooks, and stage productions, and she has edited three thematic anthologies, most recently a tribute collection celebrating the inspiration of Adrienne Rich.

Nils Nelson — Pangaea Prize Finalist, 2022

05 Saturday Aug 2023

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The sun dried your hardwood tendons,
your head came loose.

Pick-axe, one swing and this caliche will break us.

Time to shim you up, tell the wheel
grind off your burrs.

From Arizona Garden by Nils Nelson
Read 3 of Nils’ Poems

After Nils Nelson left the University of Arizona with a Janitorial Certificate (and a B.A. in English), he earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at Cal State Fresno, ’74.  His poems have appeared in Seneca Review, Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Partisan Review and other suspects, with a new poem due in the Irish magazine, Channel. An avid golfer and award-winning golf writer and editor, his articles have been in numerous national golf magazines. Nils Lives in Tucson, where he’s polishing a full-length manuscript.

Celebrating the Winner of the 2022 Pangaea Prize: Tresha Faye Haefner

02 Wednesday Aug 2023

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From Territorial Boundaries

“See the way we pocket our sadness. Dress
in isolation. Keep the lights on. We can see
what’s coming for us.”

Click to Read Tresha’s Poems

Tresha Faye Haefner is the winner of the 2022 Pangaea Prize. Her poetry appears, or is forthcoming in several journals and magazines, most notably Blood Lotus, Blue Mesa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Five South, Hunger Mountain, Mid-America Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Radar, Rattle, TinderBox and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her work has garnered several accolades, including the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and a 2012, 2020, and 2021 nomination for a Pushcart. Her first manuscript, “Pleasures of the Bear” was a finalist for prizes from both Moon City Press and Glass Lyre Press. It is still looking for a publisher.  Find her at www.thepoetrysalon.com.

Poetry Submissions Open for the 2023 Atlantis Award

29 Saturday Jul 2023

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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 Complete 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.

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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The Poet’s Billow

 
 
 

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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-Announcing-

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.

The Poet's Billow Online Poetry Workshop

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.

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