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Announcing Alaxandra Umlas as winner of the 2018 Pangaea Prize

24 Saturday Aug 2019

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Congratulations to the Alexandra Umlas who won the 2018 Pangaea Prize. This is an awesome crown of sonnets on the theme of work. Follow the link to read her poetry.

You can read the runner-up and finalists here.

 

Alex

Alexandra Umlas is the author of the full-length poetry collection At the Table of the Unknown (Moon Tide Press).  She serves as a reader for Palette Poetry and on the board of directors of Tebot Bach, a non-profit literary organization. A recent graduate of the M.F.A. Poetry program at California State University, Long Beach, she currently teaches English and lives in Huntington Beach, CA with her husband and two daughters. www.alexandraumlas.com

Introducing This Year’s Bermuda Triangle Prize Judge: Andrea England

14 Friday Apr 2017

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We are happy to announce that poet Andrea England will be the final judge for this year’s Bermuda Triangle Prize, which will be awarded for the three best poems on the theme of Revolution.

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, The Best New Poets Anthology, and Best of the Net Anthology, for which we are proud to say that poems we’ve published have been finalists.

The upcoming deadline is April 30th and details can be found here: The Bermuda Triangle Prize.

Andrea England is the author of Other Geographies (2017, Creative Justice Press) and Inventory of a Field (2014, Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Sonora Review, The 3288 Review and others. She lives and works in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she teaches English and Creative Writing for various universities and organizations. Find out more at andreajengland.com.

Check out Andrea England’s interviews with:

The 3288 Review

Midwest Gothic 

As well as some of her poems:

Stirring: “Grand Junction, Colorado, 1988”

The Boiler: “That Time of Year”

Storyscape Literary Journal: “Mary and the Hurricane”

We are looking forward to reading your work!

Write (and submit) on.

 

Day 19 Poetry Challenge

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

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“‘It doesn’t happen all at once…You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

I couldn’t help but share this excerpt that was shared with me today in my Yin Yoga class. For our class purposes, this was used as a meditation on acceptance. Here, on the Billow, for our purposes, I want to think about the Veleveteen Rabbit and his friend the horse who said this.

For today’s poem, write a dramatic monologue in the persona of an inanimate object. To stay true to the theme, give voice to one of your old stuffed animals, dolls, trucks–any toy that meant something to you when you were a child, or at some other point in your life. Perhaps the voice will speak about something it has witnessed. Perhaps, like the horse, it will share its wisdom or philosophy of life.

If you’d rather, give voice to something else that doesn’t have one.

 

 

 

 

C. D. Wright 1949-2016

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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“C.D. Wright, beloved prize-winning poet and writing professor at Brown University, unexpectedly passed away in her home on January 12, 2016. Her most recent book had just been published. The cause of death is yet to be determined.” Copper Canyon Press Release.

Floating Trees

a bed is left open to a mirror

a mirror gazes long and hard at a bed

light fingers the house with its own acoustics Read more…

Poetry Submissions Welcome

08 Friday Jan 2016

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The Poet’s Billow is now accepting submission for the Bermuda Triangle Prize – the deadline is March 15th.

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

Current Theme: Running 

Running for president, running down the street, running up the bar tab, 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.

Submit Early – Worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw: we will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.

Go to our website for the full guidelines: The Poet’s Billow Awards

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

Poetry Contest Deadline: November 1st

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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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. *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.

Generator By Cindy St. Onge

10 Saturday Oct 2015

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“Generator” was originally published at The Poet’s Billow, in December 2013. It was selected as a runner up for the Atlantis Award. You can read the poem by following this link. The video is made by the author. More of Cindy’s work can be found on her website.

Announcing the 2015 Bermuda Triangle Prize Winners and Finalists

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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The Poet’s Billow is proud to showcase the poems of seven great poets who are our winners and finalists for the 2015 Bermuda Triangle Prize. This year’s poems where published under the theme of space.

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

Winners:
Lisa St. John
Evelyn Conley
D. Ellis Phelps

Finalists:
Flower Conroy
Nikki Paley Cox
Libby Kurz
Marti Snell

Semi-Finalists:
Loretta Oleck
Douglas Cole
Ellie White
Karla Linn Merrifield
Bryn Homuth
Ed Coletti
Chris Dingman
Sara Wielenberg

Poetry Contest Deadline Extended

02 Saturday May 2015

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The Poets Billow is extending the submission period for the Pangaea Prize until May 31st, 2015.

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, Brittany Cagle.

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.

Post-Internet Poetry

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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This is an interesting article from The New Yorker about how the internet age has influenced how we make poetry. Below is an excerpt. Read the entire article here.

“Over the past few years, the art world has been throwing around the term “post-Internet” to describe the practices of artists who use the Web as the basis for their work but don’t make a big deal about it. For these artists, unlike those of previous generations, the Web is just another medium, like painting or sculpture. Their artworks move fluidly between spaces, appearing sometimes on a screen, other times in a gallery. A JPEG of a painting is often considered another version of a painting, and vice versa.” –Kenneth Goldsmith

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