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Announcing The Winner And Finalists Of The 2014 Pangaea Prize

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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Follow the links to read the poems of our winner and finalists.

Winner: Brittany Cagle
Runner-Up: Christina Clark

Finalists:
Alison Palmer
Kelly Scarff
Theodora Ziolkowski
Katharyn Machan
Myra Rasmussen

Semi-Finalists:
Sydney Justice
Karla Linn Merrifield
M.K. Brake
Claire Scott

More about the Pangaea Prize

Also, we are currently accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award.

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Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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“Why are there so many people who think poems are like pretty little locks to be teased open? Why is there a vast majority in this country that suspects poetry has nothing to do with the real world where a person must work, fight in a war or struggle to make do? I’d wager that it has to do with something that has gotten into a heap of contemporary poetry and deadened it, making it about as interesting and relevant to others as a dog yipping at its own shadow: Irony.” — Tracy K. Smith

This is a great little article from the New York Times: read the rest here.

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Poetry: Who Needs It?

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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“A century ago, poetry did not appear in little magazines devoted to it, but on the pages of newspapers and mass-circulation magazines. The big magazines and even the newspapers began declining about the time they stopped printing poetry.” — William Logan

This is a great article. Read it here: Poetry: Who Needs It?

Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Bermuda Triangle Prize

06 Friday Jun 2014

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We are happy to announce that we have published the winners and some finalists of the 2014 Bermuda Triangle Prize selected by guest judge Lawrence Eby. Below is a list of poets we would like to showcase for sending us great work, unfortunately we could not publish them all, but you can follow this link to read our selection.

Winners:
Lucian Mattison
Steven Blythe
Liz Casey

Finalists:
Jen Ashburn
Amy Neill Bebergal
Lucile Blanchard
Kathleen Kilcup
Alison Palmer

Semi-Finalist:
Michael Klecker
Daniel Devaughn
Catherine Howl
Fran Markover
Jed Myers
Jessica Glover
Andrew Renolds
Molly Prosser

A Great Article For Writers At Any Stage In Their Development

24 Thursday Apr 2014

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What I Wish I Knew After My MFA Ended

 

A guest post from Sara Finnerty:

420-Jacquelyn-Mitchard-splits-limbo-looking-back.imgcache.rev1308082218874In the years after I got my MFA I was a miserable mess. I felt like a failure as a writer and a human being. I still feel that way sometimes, but now I try and fail and try again and I know that does not mean I am a failure, it only means I am a person like everyone else. If I could, here are some things I would tell my self six years ago when I was finishing graduate school.

Link to the Article Here.

Why Teaching Poetry Is So Important

13 Sunday Apr 2014

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Here is an excerpt from a great article in The Atlantic. Read the rest here.

Students who don’t like writing essays may like poetry, with its dearth of fixed rules and its kinship with rap. For these students, poetry can become a gateway to other forms of writing. It can help teach skills that come in handy with other kinds of writing—like precise, economical diction, for example. When Carl Sandburg writes, “The fog comes/on little cat feet,” in just six words, he endows a natural phenomenon with character, a pace, and a spirit. All forms of writing benefits from the powerful and concise phrases found in poems.

Deadline for The Bermuda Triangle Prize is Tuesday

30 Sunday Mar 2014

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Just a reminder that the deadline for The Bermuda Triangle Prize is this week, Tuesday April 1st. This is not an April Fool’s Joke. If you were planning on sending us some poems please do so soon. We are looking forward do reading your work! Click here for submission guidelines.

We’re also happy to announce that poet Larry Eby will be acting as the final judge.

 

Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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This is a great article in the New York Times from 2012. It’s a close look at language and how it works in our culture and in poetry.

Here is an enticing excerpt or you can go straight to this great article.

Here’s one striking puzzle: We speak and write with remarkably different aims.  We sometimes try to get clear on the facts, so we can reach agreement on how things are.  But we sometimes try to express ourselves so we can capture the uniqueness of our viewpoint and experiences.  It is the same for listeners: language lets us learn the answers to practical questions, but it also opens us up to novel insights and perspectives.  Simply put, language straddles the chasm between science and art.