19 Wednesday Mar 2014
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This is a great bit of weird news.
A Russian teacher stabbed his friend,
(According to the courts)
Because the man disparaged
Poems, RIA reports.
It started as a friendly chat
Last week, in the Urals.
The men were drunk, discussing books
Just gabbing like old pals.
07 Monday Oct 2013
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The Atlantis Award is awarded to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $100 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 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. If the poet qualifies, the poem will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.
Up to five runners-up will be considered for publication and a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Read last year’s winners here: 2012 Atlantis
01 Sunday Sep 2013
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The Poets Billow editor and poetry mentor, Michelle Bonczek is selected for Best New Poets 2013.
http://bestnewpoets.org/blog/2013/8/28/announcing-our-50-best-new-poets-of-2013
26 Friday Jul 2013
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Caitlin Scarano, winner of the Pangaea Prize and Editor of Permafrost, says: Send me your Manuscript for Permafrost’s first annual book contest.
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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First mentioned in two dialogues (Timaeus and Critias) by Plato in 360 BC, the legendary island of Atlantis has long been sought by historians, archaeologists, and explorers alike. Said to have originally existed between South America and Africa, this sunken island has been searched for in no less than dozens of locations worldwide, from Bimini to the Black Sea.
In a new twist, a team of scientists from Brazil and Japan say they have discovered their version of Atlantis, or at least an ancient piece of granite that was part of a continent that disappeared nearly a hundred million years ago when Africa and South America separated.
Read the Article at Redorbit
Check out the Pangaea Prize Winner
Submit to our Atlantis Award
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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The Poets Billow is happy to announce the winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize. Here is an except from Caitlin Scarano’s Entry. Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read seven of her finally crafted poems.
Losing It
God came to me like a drunken man
running from a car accident. God came
at me with a mouth full of snow, blood
& broken teeth. I used to be alone.
I used to wake up without an arm across my neck.
No boys or gods licking the sole of my shoe
or testing the rope ladder hooked in my lower lip.
Sinning is storytelling –
you always look them in the eye. Your body
always betrays you. God came to me
like the accident itself. No, he came at me like the tree
that parted the car, or the girl that parted
the windshield. The only car accident I was ever in
was the night I lost my virginity in the backseat.
God wasn’t there.
Just a frightened, frightened boy.
10 Wednesday Jul 2013
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Article, Bonczek, Culture, education, entertainment, literature, Orion, poem, Poet, Poetry, poets, Publishing, reading, reading poetry, writers, Writing
Check out the current beautiful issue of Orion Magazine to read a new poem by Michelle Bonczek, as well as an essay by Barry Lopez, and an article by environmental activist Bill McKibben.
Then journey over to Facebook to like TPB: The Poet’s Billow
09 Tuesday Jul 2013
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We’ve heard a lot of thoughtful, impassioned arguments from moms who have to defend their rights to breastfeed in public, but we’ve never come across anything quite as powerful as this.
Hollie McNish, a published U.K. poet and spoken word artist, posted this video entitled “Embarrassed” on YouTube on July 4, that slowly but surely became a viral sensation.
Check it out: Embarrassed
Then check us out on Facebook: The Poet’s Billow
01 Monday Jul 2013
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The Atlantis Award is awarded to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $100 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 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. If the poet qualifies, the poem will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.
Up to five runners-up will be considered for publication and a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Follow this link for guidelines on how to enter: Atlantis Award
Read last year winners here: 2012 Atlantis
30 Sunday Jun 2013
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Article, british magazines, entertainment, European Journals, Lit. Journal, literary publications, literature, poem, Poet, Poetry, poets, Publishing, reading, writers, Writing
Everybody knows The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, AGNI and The Kenyon Review but which European (including British) magazines should a poet-in-the-know be sending work to? Which magazines should a reader-in-the-know be reading? Let B O D Y guide you hither and thither with our recommendations of literary publications from the U.K and Europe who are doing (and publishing) good work.
Read the full article at: Body: Poetry. Prose. Word.
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