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Wednesday Workshop

07 Monday Mar 2022

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The Poet's Billow
Online Poetry Workshop
Wednesday Workshop

Do you want friendly honest feedback on your poetry without having to commit hundreds of dollars on month long seminars, travel, or packed zoom meetings where all the participants windows are the size of dimes? Then join the intimate, small-group sessions of our Wednesday Workshops. No need to commit to a month of sessions! Join us week to week at your convenience.

Wednesday Workshop is a meeting held weekly where participants share one poem which receives feedback from other workshop participants and a workshop leader who is an award winner poet. These are small groups, so space is limited.

Time: Every Wednesday @ 12:00pm PST/ 3:00pm EST

Length: 1 hour Session

Size: 1-5 participants

Cost: $35

How to Register:

Send an email with the date of a workshop to reserve your space to Thepoetsbillow[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact page

Poetry will be uploaded in google classroom during the workshop. You do not need a google ID or gmail account to join.

Interview with Marjorie Stelmach

06 Sunday Mar 2022

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Read our new interview with winner of the 2017 Pangaea Prize Marjorie Stelmach, author of The Angel of Absolute Zero, upcoming in 2022 from Cascade. 

Here is an excerpt:

“We carry time inside us, coded in ways we can’t begin to decode. By trying to make meaning of the little piece of time we individually carry, and, of course, failing, we tend to maintain a microscopic view, which isn’t, perhaps, the best thing for producing a clear-eyed vision. There is, I believe, a larger text, but that requires the occasional shift to the telescope or to imagination or prayer. I try to shift back and forth, if possible, from the personal to the cosmic – which brings with it a sense of vertigo.”

Read the Interview From 2022

Poetry Contest Deadline

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.

Announcing 2016 Pangaea Prize Winners and Finalists

18 Saturday Mar 2017

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We are proud to be announcing the 2016 Pangaea Prize winners and finalists. We have two runners-up this year. We published both of their entries which means we have 3 collections being published for this contest. Go to the site and check out some great collections along with a selection of our finalists.

Congratulations to  Lauren Henley for winning the 2016 Pangaea Prize. She is the winner of the 2017 Perugia Press Award and the poems appearing on The Poet’s Billow are from her unpublished book called Whole Night Through. Check them out!

The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Bermuda Triangle Prize and the 2017 Pangaea Prize. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

Winner
L.I. Henley

Runners-up 
Sarah Ann Winn
Catherine Cobb Morocco

 Finalists
JC Reilly
Peter Ludwin
Rob Carney
Amy Nawrocki
Therese L. Broderick
Cassondra Windwalker
Flower Conroy

 Semi-Finalists
John Bergholz
Maril Crabtree
Candice Iloh
David Bublitz
Jack Cooper
Kimberly Williams
Mary Kay Rummel
Bo Niles

Interview With Lucian Mattison

13 Friday Jan 2017

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petworth-1Lucian is the winner of 2014 Atlantis Award and the 2014 Bermuda Triangle Prize. He is the author of Peregrine Nation (The Broadkill River Press, 2014) which won the 2014 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. His second collection “Reaper’s Milonga” is forthcoming from YesYes Books in the fall of 2017.

Go to our website for the entire interview.
Here is an excerpt:

So one function of writing is that it can be a way of creating homes out of memory and experience. Part of it comes from the inherent solitude that comes with such movement. You aren’t tied to any one place and people come and go in your life. You do your best to stay in touch with as many of those people as possible, but for the most part, you are operating on your own and adapting as you move forward. Writing is a way of recording growth and human experience in a meaningful way. It also helps to have a constantly changing foreground and background when composing. It enriches the experience of writing and the writing itself.

Poet’s Billow Contributer Lisa Summe in Revolution House

21 Wednesday May 2014

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Poet’s Billow contributor and winner of the 2013 Atlantis Award, Lisa Summe, has two poems in the newest issue of Revolution House. This is a great magazine to check out. Click here for a link to the journal.

Michelle Bonczek’s New Poem in Orion Magazine

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.

“Advection, Nova Scotia”

Then journey over to Facebook to like TPB: The Poet’s Billow

The Best Defense Ever for Breastfeeding in Public: A Poem

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

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Seven European Literary Journals You Should Know

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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Everybody knows The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, AGNI and The Kenyon Review but which European (including British) magazines should a poet-in-the-know be sending work to? Which magazines should a reader-in-the-know be reading? Let B O D Y guide you hither and thither with our recommendations of literary publications from the U.K and Europe who are doing (and publishing) good work.

Read the full article at: Body: Poetry. Prose. Word.

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Why I Hire English Majors by Steve Strauss

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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I love English majors. I love how smart they are. I love their intellectual curiosity. And I love their bold choice for a major. Most of all, I love to hire them.

A recent article by the great David Brooks in the New York Times about the changing nature of the Humanities in higher education just reinforced why, when given my druthers, English majors are my employee of choice.

And the reason is not that I am a writer; I more consider myself an entrepreneur than anything else. I run a small business and the people I hire do a variety of tasks — SEO, project management, social media, and so forth.

For my money (literally and figuratively), for my needs, and I suggest the needs of most small businesses, English majors are easily the top choice when it comes to getting the type of teammate who can make us all better, as they say in basketball.

Read the rest of the article by Steve Strauss at the Huffington Post

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