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2017 Pangaea Prize Winner and Finalists

11 Friday Aug 2017

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image001We are proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Pangaea Prize is Marjorie Stelmach. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently, Falter  (Cascade Books, 2017). Previous books include  Without Angels  (Mayapple), A History of Disappearance  and Bent upon Light  (Tampa). Her recent work has appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Image, Iowa Review,  New Letters, and others. She is the 2016 recipient of the Chad Walsh Award from the Beloit Poetry Journal.

You can follow this link to read her work and that of a few selected finalists. You can view their names below. Currently, we are accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award and if you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

WINNER
Marjorie Stelmach

RUNNER-UP
Claire Scott

FINALISTS
Rob Carney
Karla Linn Merrifield
Mary K O’Melveny
Jeffrey Scott Hopkins II
Mike Frenkel

SEMI-FINALISTS
A. Panian
Hilde Weisert
Mike Walker
Nancy Lind
Jeanine Stevens

Poetry Submission Period Open For The 2017 Atlantis Award

28 Friday Jul 2017

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The Atlantis Award is given for an outstanding poem. The winning poet receives $250 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.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

To enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.

Poetry Contest Deadline Extended

05 Friday May 2017

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Hello Poets! The Poet’s Billow is extending the deadline for the Pangaea Prize to 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 All poems must be previously unpublished.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.

The winning poet receives $100 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will also be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read our previous winners and finalists.

If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

Poetry Contest Deadline: Revolution

28 Friday Apr 2017

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Only a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Revolution. This year’s judge is Andrea England.

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.

2017 Judge: Andrea England

Current Theme: Revolution (2017 Theme)

Revolution

  1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
    1. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it.
  2. an instance of revolving.
    1. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

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) (Follow this link and go to the bottom of the page for a paypal link)

Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.

Submit Early – If you are worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw, don’t worry! We will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.

If you need to withdraw a poem, please do so by replying to the confirmation email sent for your entry.

Submissions are open starting: November 15th, 2016

Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017 **Open**

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Contest Deadline: April 30th

07 Friday Apr 2017

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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 April 30th.

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.

Current Theme: Revolution 

  1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
  2. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it.
  3. an instance of revolving.
  4. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

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.

Visit our website for guidelines on how to submit.

If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

April 3rd: Look Inside a Car Engine

03 Monday Apr 2017

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I woke up this morning to the sound of a table saw. My neighbors installing French doors in the back of their house, which my bedroom overlooks. The bedroom where I’d hoped to sip coffee and read the news in much more peaceful conditions. So, what brought me to this video was disgust. Plain hate for our noisy mechanical world. What I found instead: the universe in a cylinder. Holy cow, minute 3:

How Engines Work

How different the world looks up close, in slow motion…

Write on,

Michelle

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

Atlantis Award Poetry Submissions Welcome

22 Friday Jul 2016

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The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 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.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

To enter the Atlantis Award see our guidlines here.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Don’t forget you can follow The Poet’s Billow on Facebook and Twitter.

2016 Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Winners & Finalists

15 Friday Jul 2016

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We are proud to announce the winners and finalists of the 2016 Bermuda Triangle Prize. We hope that you will read their poems and be as inspired to live, love, and write as much as we were.

The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read here.

The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Atlantis Award. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
 
Winners:
L.I. Henley
Arielle Silver
Caroline Tanski

Runner-Up:
Daniel Lassell

Finalists:
Janine Certo
Whitney Mackman

Semi-Finalists:
Cody A. Conklin
Cynthia Crebbin
John Davis
Gina Ferrara
CB Follett
Christopher S Knodel
Peggy Rew
Karla Linn Merrifield
Hannah Michele
Hannah Rousselot
Claire Scott