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Poetry Contest Deadline Approaching: Bermuda Triangle Prize

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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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 March 20th.

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

Current Theme: Space 

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 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. If the poet qualifies, the poem will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.

Submit now. We have already started reading entries and hope to announce a winner by the middle of April.

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

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Two Calls For Submissions

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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The Poet’s Billow is currently accepting submissions for two poetry awards: the Bermuda Triangle Prize and the Pangaea Prize.

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets. Deadline: March 15, 2015.

Current Theme: Space

Outer space, domestic space, mental space, the space between teeth, 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.

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 All poems must be previously unpublished.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. Deadline: May 1, 2015

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

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Why Writing By Hand Can Make You Smarter

15 Thursday Jan 2015

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Read why writing by hand can make you smarter Here. This is a great little article on the Business Insider website.

Announcing the 2014 Atlantis Award Winner

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Our guest judge, poet Devon Moore, has chosen Lucian Mattison as our winner from among the wonderful poems we received.

The winning poem along with a selection of the finalists can be read here.

Winners:
Lucian Mattison

Runner-up :
Kathleen Kilcup

Finalists:
Adrian Potter
Brianna Pike

Semi-Finalist:
Elaine Olund
Alina Stefanescu
Ellene Glenn Moore
Christine Bettis
Emily Cole
Sarah Sala
Teresa Sutton
Jed Myers
Claire Scott

Interview with Poet Lisa Summe

21 Friday Nov 2014

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Mike Dockins interviews 2013 Atlantis Award winner Lisa Summe.  This is a great interview that addresses style, publishing, and what fuels poetry just to name a few. Here is an excerpt from the Lisa Summe interview on writing and technology:

“It feels necessary to discuss what a poem is and what sets it apart from technology and social media, but instead I’ll be lazy and quote A.R. Ammons: “I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning.” What I think Ammons is getting at is that the primary function of poems isn’t just to tell us things; it’s more than that. Poems provide information, of course, but good poems provide the burn Ammons is talking about. This “burn” might be a beautiful image, a narrative we can relate to, a description of something we hope to find or feel or achieve one day, whatever. Poems make us think, and therefore make us smarter. TV and Internet often make us stupid.” ~ Lisa Summe

 

Read the full interview here, or read her poem Pilot You.

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2014 Judge of the Atlantis Award: Devon Moore

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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We are proud to introduce our judge for this year’s Atlantis Award: Devon Moore

Deadline is at the end of the October. Submit today.

Here is a little bit more about her:devon-j-moore

Devon J. Moore is a native of Buffalo, NY. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY where she teaches writing at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College. A former Syracuse University Fellow, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Foothill, Ovenbird, Cider Press Review, Harpur Palate and Stone Canoe and her first poetry book, Apology of a Girl Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell, which was once a semi-finalist for the 2013 Crab Orchard First Book Award and the University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham and Pollak poetry series, is now forthcoming from Mayapple Press in April 2015.

Atlantis Award Deadline Extended

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

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The Poet’s Billow, an organization dedicated to increasing the exposure of poetry, is extending their deadline for the Atlantis Award to November 1st.

The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $100 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.

This link will take you to our submission guidelines: https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/

 

How to Write a Poem by Campbell McGrath

07 Thursday Aug 2014

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Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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“Why are there so many people who think poems are like pretty little locks to be teased open? Why is there a vast majority in this country that suspects poetry has nothing to do with the real world where a person must work, fight in a war or struggle to make do? I’d wager that it has to do with something that has gotten into a heap of contemporary poetry and deadened it, making it about as interesting and relevant to others as a dog yipping at its own shadow: Irony.” — Tracy K. Smith

This is a great little article from the New York Times: read the rest here.

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Poetry: Who Needs It?

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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“A century ago, poetry did not appear in little magazines devoted to it, but on the pages of newspapers and mass-circulation magazines. The big magazines and even the newspapers began declining about the time they stopped printing poetry.” — William Logan

This is a great article. Read it here: Poetry: Who Needs It?

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