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Last Chance for Reduced Price on July 7th Workshop

28 Friday Jun 2013

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Register for The Poet’s Billow July 7th workshop by 11:59pm on July 1st for a reduced price.

We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.

This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing.

This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.  

Go to our Workshop Page for how to sign up.

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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Article by John Horgan in Scientific America

What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci? The Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, consisting of academic, corporate, political and entertainment big shots, tries to answer this question in a big new report to Congress. The report is intended to counter plunging enrollment in and support for the humanities, which are increasingly viewed as “luxuries that employment-minded students can ill afford,” as The New York Times put it.

The humanities are subversive. They undermine the claims of all authorities, whether political, religious or scientific. This skepticism is especially important when it comes to claims about humanity, about what we are, where we came from, and even what we can be and should be.

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The Decline and Fall of the English Major

24 Monday Jun 2013

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In the past few years, I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard, Yale, Bard, Pomona, Sarah Lawrence and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Each semester I hope, and fear, that I will have nothing to teach my students because they already know how to write. And each semester I discover, again, that they don’t.

They can assemble strings of jargon and generate clots of ventriloquistic syntax. They can meta-metastasize any thematic or ideological notion they happen upon. And they get good grades for doing just that. But as for writing clearly, simply, with attention and openness to their own thoughts and emotions and the world around them — no.

That kind of writing — clear, direct, humane — and the reading on which it is based are the very root of the humanities, a set of disciplines that is ultimately an attempt to examine and comprehend the cultural, social and historical activity of our species through the medium of language.

This is a great article read the rest at the nytimes.com

Online Poetry Workshop Starting July 7th

21 Friday Jun 2013

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The Poet’s Billow is starting an online poetry workshop July 7th run by poet and author Michelle Bonczek.

This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.  

This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing. 

We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.

For more information on the workshop and to sign up for the workshop visit the workshop page on the poet’s billow website: https://thepoetsbillow.org/workshops/

Find out more information about the workshop leader Michelle Bonczek at: https://thepoetsbillow.org/our-poets/michelle-bonczek/

Interview with Poets Billow Editors on Doutrope

21 Thursday Feb 2013

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Doutrope has posted their interview with The Poets Billow editors Michelle Bonczek and Robert Evory on their website. Get a behind the scenes look at how we run our poetry competitions, who our favorite writers are, and what our judging process is like.

Link to the Interview

Pangaea Poetry Prize Submission Period Now Open

18 Friday Jan 2013

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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, at least one of the winning poems will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Finalists will also be considered for publication and nomination. If the winning poet qualifies, two poems will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.

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Pangaea Poetry Prize Submission Period Now Open

18 Friday Jan 2013

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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, at least one of the winning poems will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Finalists will also be considered for publication and nomination. If the winning poet qualifies, two poems will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.

Fragments for the End of the Year

31 Monday Dec 2012

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Fragments for the End of the Year

by Jennifer K. Sweeney

On average, odd years have been the best for me.

I’m at a point where everyone I meet looks like a version
of someone I already know.

Without fail, fall makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never experienced.

The sky is molting. I don’t know
if this is global warming or if the atmosphere is reconfiguring
itself to accommodate all the new bright suffering.

I am struck by an overwhelming need to go to Iceland.

Despite all awful variables, we are still full of ideas
as possible as unsexed fruit.

I was terribly sorry to be the one to explain to the first graders
the connection between the sunset and pollution.

On Venus you and I are not even a year old.

Then there were two skies.
The one we fly through and the one
we bury ourselves in.

I appreciate my wide beveled spatula which fulfills
the moment I realized I would grow up and own such things.

I am glad I do not yet want sexy bathroom accessories.
Such things.

In the story we were together every time.

On his wedding day, the stone in his chest
not fully melted but enough.

Sometimes I feel like there are birds flying out of me.

 

Taken from: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/fragments%20for%20the%20end%20of%20the%20year

Announcing The 2012 Atlantis Award Winner and Runner-Ups

14 Friday Dec 2012

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Francine Witte – Atlantis Award Winner

Breaking Sky

A piece of the sky breaks off
and falls into your coffee cup.

It makes you wonder how shabby
heaven might be getting and what will

it look like when you get there, if,
in fact, you do.  You spoon

the piece from your cup and hold
it between your fingers.  It is perfect
Click to finish the poem

 

 

National Book Awards Winners 2012

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Check out the winners of this years national book awards

http://nationalbook.org/

Young People’s Literature: 
William Alexander
, Goblin Secrets
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)

Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
(Random House)

Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

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