Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
In Retrospect: An Interview with Joshua Bennett, Author of We (the People of the United States)
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Dr. Joshua Bennett, whose first collection, The Sobbing School, was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back…
2026 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part Two: Anja*Oliver Schneider, Chukwu Emmanuel, Ed Gaudet
In “Carol says she’ll name a lizard after me and feed him superworms,” the speaker moves through questions of form, faith, memory, and selfhood, becoming increasingly unsure where one ends and the other begins. “To name is to become,” they…
In “Carol says she’ll name a lizard after me and feed him superworms,” the speaker moves through questions of form, faith, memory, and selfhood, becoming increasingly unsure where one ends and the other begins. “To name is to become,” they…
2026 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part One: Emily Tong, Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Dré Pontbriand
In “Offshore, I Don’t Kiss Anybody,” Tong collapses the space between the swirling vapor world of the fish pond and her pondering. To kiss or to not kiss this fishboy. The subject circles the answer until finally coming to a…
In “Offshore, I Don’t Kiss Anybody,” Tong collapses the space between the swirling vapor world of the fish pond and her pondering. To kiss or to not kiss this fishboy. The subject circles the answer until finally coming to a…
October 2026 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines with Deadlines This Month
Have you been leafing through your poems, thinking some of them are ready to be published? Consider sending your poems out to these contests and publications. Several of them come with added bonuses for submitting your work, like a free…
Have you been leafing through your poems, thinking some of them are ready to be published? Consider sending your poems out to these contests and publications. Several of them come with added bonuses for submitting your work, like a free…
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Opportunity Cost
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selected by Kazim Ali
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING
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selected by Carl Phillips
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Shadow Black
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selected by Jericho Brown
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How Often I Have Chosen Love
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selected by Joshua Roark
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