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Poetry Contest Deadline: November 1st

13 Friday Oct 2017

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The Atlantis Award is given to a single best 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. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 1st*

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

See our submission page for details.

Read last year’s winner and finalists.

Karla Linn Merrifield, Pangaea Prize Finalist

02 Saturday Sep 2017

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Read a new poem by Karla Linn Merrifield, finalist for the 2017 Pangaea Prize. Click Here.

 

Cheers by Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick - CropKarla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had ~600 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 12 books to her credit, the newest of which is Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada, a sequel to Godwit:  Poems of Canada (FootHills), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye, a member of the board of directors of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), and a member of the Florida State Poetry Society, and The Author’s Guild.  She is currently at work on three manuscripts and seeking a home for The Comfort of Commas, a quirky chapbook that pays tribute to punctuation. Visit her woefully outdated blog, Vagabond Poet, at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com. Photo by Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick. 

Claire Scott, Pangaea Prize Runner-up

26 Saturday Aug 2017

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Congratulations to Claire Scott for being our runner-up for the 2017 Pangaea Prize. Check out these amazing poems!

 

Claire-2Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has been nominated twice for the  Pushcart Prize. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Enzagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

 

 

Rob Carney, Pangaea Prize Finalist

18 Friday Aug 2017

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Rob Carney is a finalist for the 2017 Pangaea Prize. There are three poems here that are going to knock your socks off even though you have shoes on. Read them and enjoy.

 

robcarneyliteraryartsphotoRob Carney is the author of four previous books of poems, most recently 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, as well as the forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared previously in The Poet’s Billow (2015), as well as Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, and many others, and he writes a regularly featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. He lives in Salt Lake City.

2017 Pangaea Prize Winner and Finalists

11 Friday Aug 2017

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image001We are proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Pangaea Prize is Marjorie Stelmach. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently, Falter  (Cascade Books, 2017). Previous books include  Without Angels  (Mayapple), A History of Disappearance  and Bent upon Light  (Tampa). Her recent work has appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Image, Iowa Review,  New Letters, and others. She is the 2016 recipient of the Chad Walsh Award from the Beloit Poetry Journal.

You can follow this link to read her work and that of a few selected finalists. You can view their names below. Currently, we are accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award and if you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

WINNER
Marjorie Stelmach

RUNNER-UP
Claire Scott

FINALISTS
Rob Carney
Karla Linn Merrifield
Mary K O’Melveny
Jeffrey Scott Hopkins II
Mike Frenkel

SEMI-FINALISTS
A. Panian
Hilde Weisert
Mike Walker
Nancy Lind
Jeanine Stevens

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.

Poetry Contest Deadline

26 Friday May 2017

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The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the Pangaea Prize – the deadline is June 1st.

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, L.I. Henley who also won the 2017 Perugia Press Award and her second full-length collection, Starshine Road, which will be available in September.

In the past we have hosted readings at AWP to which we invite all our contributors. We also nominate for the Pushcart Prize, the Best New Poets anthology, and have had contributors as finalists for Best of the Net.

Find more at our contest page or our homepage Thepoetsbillow.org

You can also stay updated by following us on Facebook and Twitter.

Day 20 Poetry Challenge

20 Thursday Apr 2017

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Happy Poetry Month! Here is another writing prompt from last year. It is to write an abecederian poem. Try it out and Enjoy.

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It’s 4/20. And if pot was legal nationwide, this prompt would be very different…

Today, write an abecederian poem. It’s when the first letter of each line follows the order of the alphabet. So, the first line starts with A, the second with B, the third with C, etc. In the end you should have a 26-line poem.

Here’s one by Michelle Bonczek Evory (yours truly):

Lake Affected

April 11th and through my Michigan window: no surprise, really:

Blizzard. The small sidewalk trees sag under fluff and sky.

Cindy says she can’t take it, this weather. She misses

Dallas, the blue bells, has had enough of the lake’s snow globe

Extending its stay beyond this season’s home opener, yellow

Flowers and late night light for late nights

Grilling. Her hand opens back toward Texas like a beauty queen’s,

Her eyes bat their long lashes: Take me back old…

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Poetry Contest Deadline: April 30th

07 Friday Apr 2017

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The Poet’s Billow, an organization dedicated to increasing the exposure of poetry, is accepting submission for the Bermuda Triangle Prize – the deadline is April 30th.

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

Current Theme: Revolution 

  1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
  2. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it.
  3. an instance of revolving.
  4. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

We are open to interpretations on the theme. It is up to you how literal or abstract you would like to play on the chosen theme.

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

Visit our website for guidelines on how to submit.

If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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”

 

 

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