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.
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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
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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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17 Wednesday Dec 2014
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
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 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.
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/
