Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

2024 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part One: Sighle Meehan, Imani Cezanne, Tija Tippett

Our first installment of poems chosen as finalists includes Sighle Meehan’s eerie and echoing “half-doors, bolted and broken,” which creates a call and response that haunts readers well after they leave the poetic space. By contrast, Imani Cezanne’s “I found…

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Poetry: “Dress Up Game” by Zoe Korte

Zoe Korte pulls no punches. The first lines of her poem “Dress Up Game,” cover all the bases, from human sacrifice all the way to devout religious practice. There’s an element to the way she creates pairings, both in terms…

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Poetry: “Psychic, 1988: Coloring Memory, New Mexico” by Mary Robles

Mary Robles’ “Psychic, 1988: ColoringMemory,New Mexico,”  is immediately eye catching because of the keenly described sensory detail: in the first lines we see “sweet & bitter chestnut paste,’” and “roses / weeping on his forearms,” both of which are unique and evocative…

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