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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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Enjoy 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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There 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 All poems must be previously unpublished.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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Only 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
Wednesday Workshop
07 Monday Mar 2022
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Do you want friendly honest feedback on your poetry without having to commit hundreds of dollars on month long seminars, travel, or packed zoom meetings where all the participants windows are the size of dimes? Then join the intimate, small-group sessions of our Wednesday Workshops. No need to commit to a month of sessions! Join us week to week at your convenience.
Wednesday Workshop is a meeting held weekly where participants share one poem which receives feedback from other workshop participants and a workshop leader who is an award winner 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
How to Register:
Send an email with the date of a workshop to reserve your space to Thepoetsbillow[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact page
Poetry will be uploaded in google classroom during the workshop. You do not need a google ID or gmail account to join.
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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The 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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26 Sunday Dec 2021
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16 Thursday Dec 2021
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