20 Tuesday Nov 2012
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Here is a great video with directions on how to make a pocket-sized book from the poets and writers website. If any one makes one post a picture of it so we can see.
18 Sunday Nov 2012
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Check out the winners of this years national book awards
Young People’s Literature:
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)
Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
(Random House)
Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
27 Saturday Oct 2012
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We wanted to recognize Robert Evory for his poem “Astronomers” that was just published in The Baltimore Review.
13 Saturday Oct 2012
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On Monday, submissions for the Atlantis Award will officially close at midnight
The winning poem will be published on our website and be nominated for any national awards that they qualify for; the poet will be interviewed for the Poet’s Billow website and receive $100.
11 Thursday Oct 2012
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Let’s support the 2012 National Book Award Finalists for Poetry. Find the rest at the National Book Award Website.
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press)
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press)
Tim Seibles, Fast Animal (Etruscan Press)
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Susan Wheeler, Meme (University of Iowa Press)
07 Sunday Oct 2012
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Just wanted to send out a congratulations to Michelle Bonczek, our poetry editor, mentor, and workshop leader here at The Poets Billow, for winner the Orange Monkey Chapbook contest with her manuscript The Art of the Nipple.
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