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2016 Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Winners & Finalists

15 Friday Jul 2016

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We are proud to announce the winners and finalists of the 2016 Bermuda Triangle Prize. We hope that you will read their poems and be as inspired to live, love, and write as much as we were.

The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read here.

The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Atlantis Award. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
 
Winners:
L.I. Henley
Arielle Silver
Caroline Tanski

Runner-Up:
Daniel Lassell

Finalists:
Janine Certo
Whitney Mackman

Semi-Finalists:
Cody A. Conklin
Cynthia Crebbin
John Davis
Gina Ferrara
CB Follett
Christopher S Knodel
Peggy Rew
Karla Linn Merrifield
Hannah Michele
Hannah Rousselot
Claire Scott

Poetry Contest Deadline: June 1st

13 Friday May 2016

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There are only two weeks left to submit to the 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 All poems must be previously unpublished.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. Click here to read last year’s winner, Bon Vivants Hereafter by Greg Emilio.

Submit now. We have already started reading entries and hope to announce a winner by the end of June.

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

C. D. Wright 1949-2016

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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“C.D. Wright, beloved prize-winning poet and writing professor at Brown University, unexpectedly passed away in her home on January 12, 2016. Her most recent book had just been published. The cause of death is yet to be determined.” Copper Canyon Press Release.

Floating Trees

a bed is left open to a mirror

a mirror gazes long and hard at a bed

light fingers the house with its own acoustics Read more…

Poetry Submissions Welcome

08 Friday Jan 2016

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The Poet’s Billow is now accepting submission for the Bermuda Triangle Prize – the deadline is March 15th.

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

Current Theme: Running 

Running for president, running down the street, running up the bar tab, we are open to interpretations on the theme. It is up to you how literal or abstract you would like to play on the chosen theme.

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

Submit Early – Worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw: we will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.

Go to our website for the full guidelines: The Poet’s Billow Awards

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

Poetry Contest Deadline: November 1st

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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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 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.

See our submission page for details.

Read last year’s winner and finalists.

Special Feature – Alaxander Stinton

16 Friday Oct 2015

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The Poet’s Billow has a new Special Features page, and we are so proud to be highlighting Alex Stinton the recipient of the 2014 Sophie Kerr Award, the nation’s largest undergraduate literary award.

Alexander Stinton

Alexander Stinton: I think it was Joyce who remarked how Columbus made his name by being the last person to discover America. Something similar might be said of my undergraduate work. And work it was: those poems took a good deal of shaping and swearing and sleepless nights. I wanted to sound mature, I suppose, and––as an infant does with the voices of those around her––I absorbed and imitated as best I could the poets I was reading. Read more of this interview.

Joseph

On the night God’s seed lay fresh
in the somewhat swanlike
egg beneath Mary’s navel,

who was it
rustling for a bite to eat,
unleavened bread, some dates?

Whose hand went unmoved but
hopeful on the belly
as the other tapped the keys

of his cell phone:
“You’ll never believe. . . .” Continue Reading

Poetry Contest Deadline: November 1st

27 Sunday Sep 2015

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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 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 submit follow the guidelines on the Atlantis Award Page

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Possum Kingdom

07 Friday Aug 2015

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Congratulations to Lauren Boisvert for her group of poems titled “Possum Kingdom” which was the runner-up for the 2015 Pangaea Prize. These are selected by Mike Dockins.Lauren Boisvert

Lauren Boisvert is a senior creative writing major at the University of Central Florida. She has been previously published in print and online in Mochila Review, Young Writers Anthology, The Broken Plate, and YARN. One time she walked really close to David Sedaris and it’s her favorite story to tell at bars.

Bon Vivants Hereafter

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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Greg EmilioCongratulations to Greg Emilio for his group of poems titled “Bon Vivants Hereafter” which won the 2015 Pangaea Prize. What an awesome set of poems! Selected by Mike Dockins.

Greg Emilio is a Southern California native whose poetry and essays have appeared in Miramar, Pleiades, Spillway, andWorld Literature Today, among others.  He’s currently pursuing his PhD in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta.  He also fancies himself a decent bartender.