12 Friday Aug 2022
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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
08 Thursday Jul 2021
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Congratulations to our Poetry Mentor, Michelle Bonczek Evory, who won a 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award for her collection The Ghost of Lost Animals. The book was published last year by Gunpowder Press when it won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.
Michelle is available for one-on-one mentoring sessions and manuscript reviews of poetry, nonfiction, & fiction. The Poet’s Billow provides one-on-one study with published, working writers and professors who will cater lessons, assignments, and readings to you individually. Mentoring integrates today’s technology with traditional immersions in reading, writing, and discussion to allow students and mentors to develop close relationships and conduct deep discussions about the art of poetry and the act of writing it. Specific foci and scheduling are designed to fit your schedule and needs and can range from one-time meetings to extended, regular interactions.
27 Friday Sep 2019
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The deadline for the Atlantis Award is fast approaching. It is Tuesday October 1st. We love reading the work that you all send us. Please, continue to send us your best.
https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/
03 Monday Apr 2017
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It is April once again. The month we’ve nationally dedicated to poetry and poetry awareness raises my own awareness each year, too. In years past I’ve met the April Poetry Challenge and wrote a poem every day. Last year on TPB I shared daily prompts to inspire writing in all of you. This year I find myself thinking about awareness and attention.
At Western Michigan University the semester is about a month away from over and papers and deadlines are begin to heap. The weather is warming and so is the garden and house renovations calling. I have a tooth distracting me with appointments and pain, a fridge that needs constant stocking and cleaning, cats with their litter boxes, dust settling on the shelves. There are bills stacked on the table, laundry in the basket, a car belt screeching, and what seems like endless phone calls and emails to return. Outside my own little world I manage, the new Administration works to dismantle healthcare, environmental protections, privacy rights–rights of all sorts for all sorts.
What’s that you say? Write a poem? Read poetry?
So, this poetry month I’m going to work to focus my attention–no matter how briefly–on places and things where poetry grows, and away–no matter how briefly–from things that seek to destroy it. “Poetry” in a loose sense. Not necessarily written or verbal. I’ll open my eyes each day and see what the universe delivers. An image, idea, fact, discovery. Something of beauty. Some small delight.
What the universe offers to me, I will in turn offer to you, dear reader, dear writers.
May this April fill you with delight.
Write on,
Michelle
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.
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.
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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
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
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
Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.
15 Thursday Jan 2015
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