26 Friday Jul 2013
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Caitlin Scarano, winner of the Pangaea Prize and Editor of Permafrost, says: Send me your Manuscript for Permafrost’s first annual book contest.
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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First mentioned in two dialogues (Timaeus and Critias) by Plato in 360 BC, the legendary island of Atlantis has long been sought by historians, archaeologists, and explorers alike. Said to have originally existed between South America and Africa, this sunken island has been searched for in no less than dozens of locations worldwide, from Bimini to the Black Sea.
In a new twist, a team of scientists from Brazil and Japan say they have discovered their version of Atlantis, or at least an ancient piece of granite that was part of a continent that disappeared nearly a hundred million years ago when Africa and South America separated.
Read the Article at Redorbit
Check out the Pangaea Prize Winner
Submit to our Atlantis Award
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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The Poets Billow is happy to announce the winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize. Here is an except from Caitlin Scarano’s Entry. Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read seven of her finally crafted poems.
Losing It
God came to me like a drunken man
running from a car accident. God came
at me with a mouth full of snow, blood
& broken teeth. I used to be alone.
I used to wake up without an arm across my neck.
No boys or gods licking the sole of my shoe
or testing the rope ladder hooked in my lower lip.
Sinning is storytelling –
you always look them in the eye. Your body
always betrays you. God came to me
like the accident itself. No, he came at me like the tree
that parted the car, or the girl that parted
the windshield. The only car accident I was ever in
was the night I lost my virginity in the backseat.
God wasn’t there.
Just a frightened, frightened boy.
18 Thursday Jul 2013
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The ever-entertaining poet Scott Poole reports the news through poetry.
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN DRIVES HOME, BUT HIS CAR DIES…
Read the poem at Nailed Magazine
17 Wednesday Jul 2013
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Alanis Morissette’s 1996 hit “Ironic,” a catchy song that doubles as a true/false quiz for every middle school English teacher in America, is finally ironic.
Sisters Eliza and Rachael Hurwitz have righted all of Morissette’s wrongs in a cover called “It’s Finally Ironic,” with lyrics like “He won the lottery, and died the next day/from a severe paper cut from his lottery ticket/It’s a black fly in your chardonnay/that was specifically purchased to repel black flies.”
Check it out at Salon!
10 Wednesday Jul 2013
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Check out the current beautiful issue of Orion Magazine to read a new poem by Michelle Bonczek, as well as an essay by Barry Lopez, and an article by environmental activist Bill McKibben.
Then journey over to Facebook to like TPB: The Poet’s Billow
09 Tuesday Jul 2013
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We’ve heard a lot of thoughtful, impassioned arguments from moms who have to defend their rights to breastfeed in public, but we’ve never come across anything quite as powerful as this.
Hollie McNish, a published U.K. poet and spoken word artist, posted this video entitled “Embarrassed” on YouTube on July 4, that slowly but surely became a viral sensation.
Check it out: Embarrassed
Then check us out on Facebook: The Poet’s Billow
21 Friday Jun 2013
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The Poet’s Billow is starting an online poetry workshop July 7th run by poet and author Michelle Bonczek.
This is a 4 week workshop. Post a poem onto a private website each week and comment on your fellow poets’ work. Michelle Bonczek will give editorial and revisionary comments on poems; through the course of a workshop she may give suggestions for books to read, suggestions for publishing and exercises designed to generate new work. You are guaranteed feedback on a poem of your choosing each week.
This is a great option for anyone who wants honest editorial feedback on their work. It is great for writers who want to publish, enter MFA programs, just want to improve their writing or even just started writing.
We expect to have writers of multiple styles, and ages, with different experiences and plots in life. But what will bring us all together is a love for poetry and a desire to interact with others who write.
For more information on the workshop and to sign up for the workshop visit the workshop page on the poet’s billow website: https://thepoetsbillow.org/workshops/
Find out more information about the workshop leader Michelle Bonczek at: https://thepoetsbillow.org/our-poets/michelle-bonczek/
05 Friday Apr 2013
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Michelle Bonczek, Poet’s Billow editor and poetry mentor, is celebrating the release of her new chapbook The Art of the Nipple (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2013), and we are celebrating with her. Pick up a copy if you would like to support and read some great poetry.
21 Thursday Feb 2013
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Doutrope has posted their interview with The Poets Billow editors Michelle Bonczek and Robert Evory on their website. Get a behind the scenes look at how we run our poetry competitions, who our favorite writers are, and what our judging process is like.
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