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2016 Atlantis Award Winner and Finalists

19 Sunday Feb 2017

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Jm-wrightudge Mike Dockins has chosen M. Wright’s poem “Ancient Future” as the winner of the 2016 Atlantis award. He has also chosen a number of finalists and honorable mentions that all have wonder poems. You can read them all here.

M. Wright is the author of the chapbook Dear Dementia  (Ghost City Press, April 2017). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Squawk Back, Maudlin House, Ghost City Review, L’Éphémère Review, Bombus Press, Barely South Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, cahoodaloodaling, and Temenos Journal. More at: wrightm.com Twitter: @m__wright

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.

WINNER:
M. Wright – “Ancient Future”

FINALISTS (in no particular order):
Jonathan Travelstead – “Public Domain”
June Blumenson – “Ode to a Glacier”
Janet Joyner – “Twenty-nine Notches”

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order):
Jonathan Travelstead – “Crowd Source”
Brett Salsbury – “This Hue Only Exists Here”
JP Allen – “Love Song with Lag”
Erin Armstrong – “A Cartographer”
Lisa Zou – “Blind Mammal(s)”
Gail Waldstein – “pulse”

 

 

Interview With Lucian Mattison

13 Friday Jan 2017

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petworth-1Lucian is the winner of 2014 Atlantis Award and the 2014 Bermuda Triangle Prize. He is the author of Peregrine Nation (The Broadkill River Press, 2014) which won the 2014 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. His second collection “Reaper’s Milonga” is forthcoming from YesYes Books in the fall of 2017.

Go to our website for the entire interview.
Here is an excerpt:

So one function of writing is that it can be a way of creating homes out of memory and experience. Part of it comes from the inherent solitude that comes with such movement. You aren’t tied to any one place and people come and go in your life. You do your best to stay in touch with as many of those people as possible, but for the most part, you are operating on your own and adapting as you move forward. Writing is a way of recording growth and human experience in a meaningful way. It also helps to have a constantly changing foreground and background when composing. It enriches the experience of writing and the writing itself.

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

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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

27 Friday May 2016

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It is the last weekend 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.

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.

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.

Day 30 Poetry Challenge

30 Saturday Apr 2016

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Holy cow–here we are. The last day of the April Poetry Month Challenge. If you have written a poem every day this month, congratulations! It is not an easy thing to do. Three times I fell behind on posting a prompt due to family and work.It has been restorative and an act of discipline to commit to the challenge. It is rewarding in many ways. Even if you didn’t write 30 poems, you have written something! And that is something to be jubilant about.

For your last prompt, write a poem that starts with an end and ends with a beginning. Think of images or subjects related to endings–the last page of a book, December 31st, graduation. And then something that we associate with beginnings: daffodils, the lights dimming in a theatre, an umpire yelling, “play ball!”

Thank you again for tuning into the Billow for this year’s prompts. If you’re on a roll, keep going! We’ll look forward to seeing your poems in our contests :)

Write on!

Michelle

Day 29 Poetry Challenge

30 Saturday Apr 2016

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For your 29th prompt, write a poem about dreams. Do you have reoccurring dreams or nightmares? I have dreams in which I can breathe underwater and dreams in which a huge, 80 ft tidal wave plows toward the shore where I am standing on the second story of a glass building. She me your visions. Take the time to detail the images and sensations of them.

Day 28 Poetry Challenge

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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We are really closing in on the end of this April’s challenge. Three more poems!

Our 27th prompt asked us to write a love poem. Now, write a hate poem. Feel free to rant.

Maybe you’ve had it with a colleague, a boss, Donald Trump, the squirrel on the bird feeder (ding ding ding for me!). And you know what else I have had it up to here with? Have you noticed how long it takes for professional people to call you back or fulfill requests? I call a lawyer every week for a month–it takes a month for him to call and he doesn’t leave a message. I request a document from a doctor and she doesn’t send it until I call five times. I send an email and recieve no answers to my questions until I email again and call twice. Also, I move the feeder, change the location of the baffle, and the damn squirrel still ends up on the feeder spilling seeds all over the ground.

You get the idea.

Rant on!

Day 27 Poetry Challenge

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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Yesterday was mine and Rob’s anniversary. In the context of this, for your 27th poem, write  a love poem. Here is one by Marvin Bell I have always loved:

To Dorothy

You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
and a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
of a windy night, it brushes the wall
and sweeps away the day till we sleep.

A child said it, and it seemed true:
“Things that are lost are all equal.”
But it isn’t true. If I lost you,
the air wouldn’t move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn’t be yours. If I lost you,
I’d have to ask the grass to let me sleep.