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Only a few weeks left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of change.
The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
Current Theme: Change (2020-2021 Theme)
We are open to interpretations on the theme: person change, spiritual change, chemical change, morphing into a giant planet-eating robot. 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: March 15th, 2021
Peter Filkins is the author of four previous collections of poetry – What She Knew (Orchises 1998), After Homer (Braziller 2002), Augustine’s Vision (New American Press 2010), and The View We’re Granted (Johns Hopkins 2012), for which he received the 2013 Sheila Motton Award for a best book of poetry from the New England Poetry Club. He has also translated the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken (Zephyr 2006) and three novels by H.G. Adler – Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, published by Random House. His biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. His work has received the Stover Award in Poetry from Southwest Review, a Finalist Award in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, an NEH Fellowship, a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, the James Merrill House, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The American Scholar, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, Partisan Review, The Paris Review, The N.Y. Times Book Review, and numerous other publications. He serves as the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and also teaches translation at Bard’s main campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
David R. Bublitz is the son of a veteran. He completed an MFA at the Oklahoma City University Red Earth program. He is a founding editor of the Red Earth Review, and he has published poetry in CONSEQUENCE, 0-Dark-Thirty, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. He teaches journalism courses at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, while advising for the student-run CU Collegian newspaper.