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 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.
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.
Rob 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.
11 Friday Aug 2017
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We 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
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.
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.
05 Friday May 2017
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Hello Poets! The Poet’s Billow is extending the deadline for the Pangaea Prize to 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.
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.
If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
28 Friday Apr 2017
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Only a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Revolution. This year’s judge is Andrea England.
The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
2017 Judge: Andrea England
Current Theme: Revolution (2017 Theme)
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, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
Guidelines:
As entries will be read blindly, your name and contact information should not appear on the poems themselves.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send an email if a poem needs to be withdrawn. Multiple submissions are allowed with a paid submission fee for each set of three poems.
Each entry of three poems costs $10 and should be paid through paypal and the poems submitted by email to thepoetsbillow@gmail.com. Please format subject line (First, last name — Bermuda Triangle) (Follow this link and go to the bottom of the page for a paypal link)
Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.
Submit Early – If you are worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw, don’t worry! We will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.
If you need to withdraw a poem, please do so by replying to the confirmation email sent for your entry.
Submissions are open starting: November 15th, 2016
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017 **Open**
21 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
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.
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.
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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19 Wednesday Apr 2017
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Here is a writing prompt from a year ago today: Happy Poetry Month!!!
“‘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…
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