25 Monday Mar 2024
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Come write with us! Journey with us as we celebrate April #poetrymonth.
This is a 4-week workshop. There are two options for what day of the week you would like to meet: Thursday or Saturday.
09 Saturday Mar 2024
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Current Theme: Relationships
We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. 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.
22 Thursday Feb 2024
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Saturdays @ 1:00-3:00 EST
Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is an award winning author with a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.
This workshop will focus on creating a refined submission packet that is ready to send to literary journals and magazines. No matter your experience with writing and publishing this workshop will help you advance your poetry and practice.
Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com
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08 Thursday Feb 2024
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24 Friday Nov 2023
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The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
Current Theme: Relationships (2023-2024 Theme)
We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. 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.
23 Thursday Mar 2023
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The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.
Current Theme: Water & Earth (2022-2023 Theme)
We are open to interpretations on the theme: drought, floods, beverages, images from across the world; ice, fire; seeds, drops of dew on the back of an ant. 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.
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)
Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.
Deadline May 1st, 2023
06 Wednesday Jul 2022
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Enjoy this wonderful article on the importance of poetry. Here are some excerpts:
Kate Camp
“Poetry is important because it gets into your bones, like music does, and then it’s always with you.”
Susan Paris
“That initial mystery in the first few lines is hard to beat. The wonder of where you’re headed, and the nature of the guide.”
Ian Wedde ONZM
“Poetry is important because it makes many different ways of seeing, experiencing and understanding other than literal ones – it subverts the predictable, it makes us think twice and see differently, it reorients or destabilises the relationships between language making sense and language unmaking sense we take for granted.”
Cliff Fell
“Poetry is important because it is what it is, the musical truth of human language.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/129129886/why-poems-are-good-for-you-by-a-load-of-poets
26 Sunday Dec 2021
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Let The Poet’s Billow help you reach your writing, revision, and publishing goals in the New Year! For more details click this link.
12 Friday Nov 2021
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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Ana Pugatch’s poem “Dissolution” was chosen as the winner of the 2020 Atlantis Award. Below is our full list of finalist and semifinalist. We also published two runner-ups whose work is amazing, so please be sure to check those out.
Currently, we are accepting submissions for the 2021 Atlantis Award and the 2022 Bermuda Triangle Prize.
Ana Pugatch is a Harvard graduate who taught English in China and Thailand for several years. She recently completed her MFA at George Mason University, where she was awarded the ’20-’21 Poetry Heritage Fellowship. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Review, Pinesong, and Literary Shanghai. She lives in Raleigh with her partner and son.
Winner:
Ana Pugatch – “Dissolution”
Runner-Ups:
Amanda Dettmann – “This is Not a Phase” & “Happiness Unrushed”
Jacqueline Yang – “November before the surge” & “Instant Noodle”
Dawn Terpstra – “Letter to Further Isolation” and “Oxbow
Finalists:
Eileen Malone – “They Call Me Noncompliant”
Christopher Vaughan – “Amid the Climate Crises, I Address My Twins, at a Year Old”
Nkasiobi Mbonu – “A Sun Flowers Choice”
Pea Kay – “The Birth of a Galaxy”
Lee Alexander – “Bem Vinda a Florianopolis”
Semifinalist:
Jude Bradley
Chelsea Carey
Volomi Jeanne
Michelle Kogan
Chan Krisna
Chime Lama
Chi Kyu Lee
Jerry Lieblich
Karen Loeb
Mammatli Molefi
Diana Pinckney
Ellen Reynard
Natalie Voltz
22 Friday Oct 2021
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The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 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. Finalists will be considered for publication. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th*
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
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