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Poet’s New Website and Blog

13 Tuesday Jul 2021

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Karla Linn Merrifield has been a finalist for many poet’s billow’s poetry awards, published over ten collections of poems, and is published widely. She now has a website where you can learn more about her many talents and travels. Check it out: https://karlalinnmerrifield.org/books/

Karla also has a blog you can subscribe to: https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com/

At The Muses’ Refugia blog there will be:

  • Musings about poetry
  • Book reviews
  • Interviews with poets, musicians and artists 
  • New book alerts
  • Photographs and music
  • Special guest posts 
  • Helpful writing resources
  • Occasional foodie observations, including recipes (cooking is an art!)

Independent Publishers Book Award Winner: Michelle Bonczek Evory

08 Thursday Jul 2021

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Congratulations to our Poetry Mentor, Michelle Bonczek Evory, who won a 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award for her collection The Ghost of Lost Animals. The book was published last year by Gunpowder Press when it won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.  

Michelle is available for one-on-one mentoring sessions and manuscript reviews of poetry, nonfiction, & fiction. The Poet’s Billow provides one-on-one study with published, working writers and professors who will cater lessons, assignments, and readings to you individually. Mentoring integrates today’s technology with traditional immersions in reading, writing, and discussion to allow students and mentors to develop close relationships and conduct deep discussions about the art of poetry and the act of writing it. Specific foci and scheduling are designed to fit your schedule and needs and can range from one-time meetings to extended, regular interactions.

Poetry Contest Deadline: March 15

28 Sunday Feb 2021

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Only a few weeks left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of change.

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

Current Theme: Change (2020-2021 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: person change, spiritual change, chemical change, morphing into a giant planet-eating robot. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.

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.

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2021

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Reading February 21 @ 4:00pm Pacific Time

20 Saturday Feb 2021

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The winner of the 2019 Pangaea Prize, Peter Filkins, will be reading in the Lines Online Poetry Series at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA next Sunday, February 21, at 4 pm Pacific Time/ 7 pm Eastern Time. The link where you will find the flyer for the event is at: https://henrymiller.org/lines-online/. You will need to email the address of the flyer to receive an invitation to the event.

Peter_Filkins-Wp-Barnard._MACD-08,_010,#404Peter Filkins is the author of four previous collections of poetry – What She Knew (Orchises 1998), After Homer (Braziller 2002), Augustine’s Vision (New American Press 2010), and The View We’re Granted (Johns Hopkins 2012), for which he received the 2013 Sheila Motton Award for a best book of poetry from the New England Poetry Club. He has also translated the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken (Zephyr 2006) and three novels by H.G. Adler – Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, published by Random House. His biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. His work has received the Stover Award in Poetry from Southwest Review, a Finalist Award in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, an NEH Fellowship, a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, the James Merrill House, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The American Scholar, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, Partisan Review, The Paris Review, The N.Y. Times Book Review, and numerous other publications. He serves as the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and also teaches translation at Bard’s main campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Poetry Contest Deadline April 30

29 Wednesday Apr 2020

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There is only a short time left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Fire.

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

Current Theme: Fire (2019-2020 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: Forest fires, magical fire, the absences of fire, your fired, how to extinguish a fire, the fires of passion. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.

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.

Submission deadline: April 30, 2020

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Contest Deadline: April 30

23 Thursday Apr 2020

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There is less than a week left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Fire.

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

Current Theme: Fire (2019-2020 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: Forest fires, magical fire, the absences of fire, your fired, how to extinguish a fire, the fires of passion. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.

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.

Submission deadline: April 30, 2020

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Contest Deadline

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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Hello Poets! The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the 2020 Pangaea Prize.

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.

You can view our guidelines here.

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 Deadline Approaching

07 Saturday Mar 2020

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Only 1 week left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Fire.

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

Current Theme: Fire (2019-2020 Theme)

We are open to interpretations on the theme: Forest fires, magical fire, the absences of fire, your fired, how to extinguish a fire, the fires of passion. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.

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.

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2020

Click here to go to contest page

Poetry Submission Deadline: Oct 1st.

27 Friday Sep 2019

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The deadline for the Atlantis Award is fast approaching. It is Tuesday October 1st. We love reading the work that you all send us. Please, continue to send us your best.

https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/

Winners of the 2018 Atlantis Award

20 Friday Sep 2019

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We are so pleased to post the winner and finalist for the 2018 Atlantis Award. Jennifer Hollis is our winner. N.L. Pillman the runner-up and Jari Chevalier, Emily K. Michael, and Amber Thompson our finalists. Congratulations to them and to our semifinalists.

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2019 Atlantis Award. If you are interested please submit!

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