Why I Hire English Majors by Steve Strauss
I love English majors. I love how smart they are. I love their intellectual curiosity. And I love their bold choice for a major. Most of all, I love to hire them. A recent article by the great David...
View ArticleSeven European Literary Journals You Should Know
Everybody knows The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, AGNI and The Kenyon Review but which European (including British) magazines should a poet-in-the-know be sending work to? Which magazines...
View ArticleThe Humanities are Not in Decline According to the Numbers
Recently, Nate Silver, the statistician who has become famous for the accuracy of his analyses of polling data, has weighed in on the inexorable decline of the humanities, and has found, using...
View ArticleMichelle Bonczek’s New Poem in Orion Magazine
Check out the current beautiful issue of Orion Magazine to read a new poem by Michelle Bonczek, as well as an essay by Barry Lopez, and an article by environmental activist Bill McKibben. “Advection,...
View ArticleWinner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize
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....
View ArticleAmerica, Meet Your Poets!
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...
View ArticlePhilosophy and the Poetic Imagination
This is a great article in the New York Times from 2012. It’s a close look at language and how it works in our culture and in poetry. Here is an enticing excerpt or you can go straight to this great...
View ArticleA Great Article For Writers At Any Stage In Their Development
What I Wish I Knew After My MFA Ended A guest post from Sara Finnerty: In the years after I got my MFA I was a miserable mess. I felt like a failure as a writer and a human being. I still feel that...
View ArticlePoetry: Who Needs It?
“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...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2015 Bermuda Triangle Prize Winners and Finalists
The Poet’s Billow is proud to showcase the poems of seven great poets who are our winners and finalists for the 2015 Bermuda Triangle Prize. This year’s poems where published under the theme of space....
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