As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
For this Poems That Teach, we’ll be doing a close reading of “Power” by Audre Lorde. Lorde’s poem is wicked, harrowing. Known for her brutal willingness to confront systems of erasure, she’s written a poem of monsters and ghostly children…
Winter’s arriving and we’ve gathered some incredible opportunities for poets in November. Fellowships, magazines, awards and internships: write, submit, repeat. & as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices. CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published and Self-Published Literature…
Inspired by the 2016 VIDA Count, we want to have transparency for ourselves, our poets, and our readers. We’ve done an internal audit around issues of representation on our platform, and we are proud of the direction that Frontier is…
Considering the nearness of Halloween, this Poetry Terms takes a closer look at the words we use when we talk about poetry that spooks and scares. These three terms, Dramatic Monologue, Mood, & Confessional, represent three different invitations to build…
Our New Voices category is the beating heart of Frontier. It’s the essence of our mission: to uplift, validate, support and energize emerging poets. It will always be open. It will always be free. We will always pay our poets.…
As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
Fall is here, the summer is over, and October is a packed month. We’ve picked out a number of some of the most interesting deadlines for poets happening. Book awards, chapbook prizes, and anthologies looking for counter-narrative poetry—it’s all here.…
Ten beautiful collections here demand your looking—the longlist of the National Book Awards is out and the nominees represent emerging and established poets from all across America. For your poetheart’s perusal, we’ve gathered together some useful info on each of…
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