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26 Sunday Dec 2021

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Let The Poet’s Billow help you reach your writing, revision, and publishing goals in the New Year! For more details click this link.

Poetry Contest Deadline: November 30th

26 Friday Nov 2021

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There are only a few days left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Deadline is November 30. 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.

Poetry Contest Deadline

22 Friday Oct 2021

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AtlantisThe 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. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th*

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

See our submission page for details.

Poet’s New Website and Blog

13 Tuesday Jul 2021

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Karla Linn Merrifield has been a finalist for many poet’s billow’s poetry awards, published over ten collections of poems, and is published widely. She now has a website where you can learn more about her many talents and travels. Check it out: https://karlalinnmerrifield.org/books/

Karla also has a blog you can subscribe to: https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com/

At The Muses’ Refugia blog there will be:

  • Musings about poetry
  • Book reviews
  • Interviews with poets, musicians and artists 
  • New book alerts
  • Photographs and music
  • Special guest posts 
  • Helpful writing resources
  • Occasional foodie observations, including recipes (cooking is an art!)

Poetry Submission Period Open For The 2021 Atlantis Award

02 Friday Jul 2021

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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. 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 enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

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

Pangaea Prize Winner Announcement

06 Saturday Feb 2021

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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that our judge Sara Lupita Olivares has chosen Peter Filkins as the winner of the 2019 Pangaea Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2019 Pangaea Prize 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 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.

About our judge:

Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (The University of Arkansas Press), which was selected as winner of the 2020 CantoMundo Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Field Things (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Currently she lives in northern New Mexico where she is an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University. https://www.saralupitaolivares.com

About our Winner:

Peter Filkins is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Water / Music, will be published by Johns Hopkins UP in April 2021. His previous volume, The View We’re Granted, received the Sheila Margaret Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and his poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, Poetry, The American Scholar, The N.Y. Times Book Review, and numerous other publications. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and courses in translation at Bard College. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/water-music

Poetry Contest Deadline April 30

29 Wednesday Apr 2020

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There is only a short time left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Fire.

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

Current Theme: Fire (2019-2020 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: Forest fires, magical fire, the absences of fire, your fired, how to extinguish a fire, the fires of passion. 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, 2020

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Submission Period Open For The 2017 Atlantis Award

28 Friday Jul 2017

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The Atlantis Award is given for an outstanding poem. The winning poet receives $250 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 enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

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

Atlantis Award Poetry Submissions Welcome

22 Friday Jul 2016

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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 enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

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

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

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