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Announcing the 2013 Atlantis Award Winner
07 Saturday Dec 2013
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We are so happy to bring you the poems for the 2013 Atlantis Award. Big thanks to Mike Dockins who judged this year’s contest. He selected Lisa Summe‘s poem “Pilot You” as the winner. Please, go read it and the other fantastic poems by our finalists.
https://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/2013-atlantis-award/
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Lisa Summe
Lisa Summe was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and earned her BA and MA in English at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have appeared in Fourth River, Mead, The Licking River Review, and others. This year she received honorable mention in the Jean Chimsky Poetry Prize and was nominated twice for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Virginia Tech, she lives in Blacksburg, Virginia with her very handsome cat, Ozzy.
Check out some new publications by TPB Contributor Kallie Falandays
10 Thursday Oct 2013
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Winter issue of Zymbol which can be purchased here: http://zymbolmag.com/bookshelf/2013-autumn-winter/
inaugural issue of the new journal Deluge, which can be found: http://www.radioactivemoat.com/deluge-issue-one.html
Deadline for the Atlantis Award Extended: November 1st
07 Monday Oct 2013
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The Atlantis Award is awarded 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 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. If the poet qualifies, the poem will also be submitted to The Best New Poets anthology.
Up to five runners-up will be considered for publication and a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Read last year’s winners here: 2012 Atlantis
List of 50 Best New Poets 2013
01 Sunday Sep 2013
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The Poets Billow editor and poetry mentor, Michelle Bonczek is selected for Best New Poets 2013.
http://bestnewpoets.org/blog/2013/8/28/announcing-our-50-best-new-poets-of-2013
Poetry Editor Michelle Bonczek publishes in Verse Daily
09 Friday Aug 2013
Today at The Poets Billow we are celebrating Michelle Bonczek’s poem Hunger that was published on Verse Daily.
America, Meet Your Poets!
30 Tuesday Jul 2013
What we have here, it seems, is a failure to communicate. America has a thousands-strong class of recent university graduates whose degrees are in writing, who are presently without any gainful employment directly associated with their field, and who are intimately familiar not only with contemporary poetry but also with the communities and institutions working poets spend much of their time in, and yet few in the media seem willing to tap them as a resource.
Read the article at The Huffington Post
Book Contest Through Permafrost
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.
This Reminds Us: TPB Now Taking Submissions for The Atlantis Award ; Pangaea Prize Winner Posted
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
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Winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize
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.
the poet's billow 