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Poetry: preparing an elegy by Jenny Shen
Jenny Shen’s power in “preparing an elegy” rises as invitation to familial intimacy—the poem rolls forward like a stream of consciousness and captures a mother and her daughter in a fragile moment, in the kitchen, in a conversation with so…
Luther Hughes’ You Smell Like Outside: Hair Part 1
“You Smell Like Outside” is Luther Hughes’ wonderful column for Frontier where he seeks to answer the question every month: can poetry help us with our real, day-to-day life? For March, Lue is thinking about hair, and he’s got a…
“You Smell Like Outside” is Luther Hughes’ wonderful column for Frontier where he seeks to answer the question every month: can poetry help us with our real, day-to-day life? For March, Lue is thinking about hair, and he’s got a…
Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web: March 2019
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web this March. These seven poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Redivider, Split Lip, Missouri Review, Thrusth, The Rumpus, and Cotton…
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web this March. These seven poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Redivider, Split Lip, Missouri Review, Thrusth, The Rumpus, and Cotton…
2019 Chapbook Contest is Open for Submissions!
We are so excited to announce that our 2019 Digital Chapbook Contest for emerging poets is now accepting submissions! Chapbooks are a huge milestone for emerging poets, and we’re always looking forward to the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest—where we get…
We are so excited to announce that our 2019 Digital Chapbook Contest for emerging poets is now accepting submissions! Chapbooks are a huge milestone for emerging poets, and we’re always looking forward to the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest—where we get…
How Often I Have Chosen Love
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
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fron·tier
the extreme limit of understanding or achievement in a particular area
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fron·tier
brink, boundary, borderland
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fron·tier
a line between different or opposed things
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