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Wednesday Workshop

07 Monday Mar 2022

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The Poet's Billow
Online Poetry Workshop
Wednesday Workshop

Do you want friendly honest feedback on your poetry without having to commit hundreds of dollars on month long seminars, travel, or packed zoom meetings where all the participants windows are the size of dimes? Then join the intimate, small-group sessions of our Wednesday Workshops. No need to commit to a month of sessions! Join us week to week at your convenience.

Wednesday Workshop is a meeting held weekly where participants share one poem which receives feedback from other workshop participants and a workshop leader who is an award winner poet. These are small groups, so space is limited.

Time: Every Wednesday @ 12:00pm PST/ 3:00pm EST

Length: 1 hour Session

Size: 1-5 participants

Cost: $35

How to Register:

Send an email with the date of a workshop to reserve your space to Thepoetsbillow[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact page

Poetry will be uploaded in google classroom during the workshop. You do not need a google ID or gmail account to join.

Poetry Contest Deadline: December 15th

23 Monday Nov 2020

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There is only a short time left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Send us your best ground shaking poetry. Win money and be featured in an interview on the Poet’s Billow website. We nominate for post publication prizes. The deadline has been extended to November 15th.

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

The Atlantis Award is given for a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 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.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

Poetry Contest Deadline: Revolution

28 Friday Apr 2017

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Only a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Revolution. This year’s judge is Andrea England.

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

2017 Judge: Andrea England

Current Theme: Revolution (2017 Theme)

Revolution

  1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
    1. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it.
  2. an instance of revolving.
    1. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

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.

Guidelines:

As entries will be read blindly, your name and contact information should not appear on the poems themselves.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send an email if a poem needs to be withdrawn. Multiple submissions are allowed with a paid submission fee for each set of three poems.

Each entry of three poems costs $10 and should be paid through paypal and the poems submitted by email to thepoetsbillow@gmail.com. Please format subject line (First, last name — Bermuda Triangle) (Follow this link and go to the bottom of the page for a paypal link)

Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.

Submit Early – If you are worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw, don’t worry! We will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.

If you need to withdraw a poem, please do so by replying to the confirmation email sent for your entry.

Submissions are open starting: November 15th, 2016

Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017 **Open**

Click here to go to contest page

Day 20 Poetry Challenge

20 Thursday Apr 2017

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Happy Poetry Month! Here is another writing prompt from last year. It is to write an abecederian poem. Try it out and Enjoy.

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It’s 4/20. And if pot was legal nationwide, this prompt would be very different…

Today, write an abecederian poem. It’s when the first letter of each line follows the order of the alphabet. So, the first line starts with A, the second with B, the third with C, etc. In the end you should have a 26-line poem.

Here’s one by Michelle Bonczek Evory (yours truly):

Lake Affected

April 11th and through my Michigan window: no surprise, really:

Blizzard. The small sidewalk trees sag under fluff and sky.

Cindy says she can’t take it, this weather. She misses

Dallas, the blue bells, has had enough of the lake’s snow globe

Extending its stay beyond this season’s home opener, yellow

Flowers and late night light for late nights

Grilling. Her hand opens back toward Texas like a beauty queen’s,

Her eyes bat their long lashes: Take me back old…

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Day 19 Poetry Challenge

19 Wednesday Apr 2017

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Here is a writing prompt from a year ago today: Happy Poetry Month!!!

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“‘It doesn’t happen all at once…You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

I couldn’t help but share this excerpt that was shared with me today in my Yin Yoga class. For our class purposes, this was used as a meditation on acceptance. Here, on the Billow, for our purposes, I want to think about the Veleveteen Rabbit and his friend the horse who said this.

For today’s poem, write a…

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Happy National Poetry Month!

01 Saturday Apr 2017

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It is National Poetry Month. Here are some ways to help you celebrate. Let us know what you are doing by posting a comment or Tweet us @thepoetsbillow.

https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month

 

Day Two Prompt

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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Write a poem in the persona of a person who is the first to do something. For example, the first person to build a boat; to start a fire; to brew coffee; to walk on the moon; to look into a microscope.

Write on!

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