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
21 Friday Nov 2014
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Mike Dockins interviews 2013 Atlantis Award winner Lisa Summe. This is a great interview that addresses style, publishing, and what fuels poetry just to name a few. Here is an excerpt from the Lisa Summe interview on writing and technology:
“It feels necessary to discuss what a poem is and what sets it apart from technology and social media, but instead I’ll be lazy and quote A.R. Ammons: “I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning.” What I think Ammons is getting at is that the primary function of poems isn’t just to tell us things; it’s more than that. Poems provide information, of course, but good poems provide the burn Ammons is talking about. This “burn” might be a beautiful image, a narrative we can relate to, a description of something we hope to find or feel or achieve one day, whatever. Poems make us think, and therefore make us smarter. TV and Internet often make us stupid.” ~ Lisa Summe
Read the full interview here, or read her poem Pilot You.
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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/
07 Thursday Aug 2014
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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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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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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?
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
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.
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