We are very excited to announce that our annual Frontier OPEN is open for only a short time longer! For this contest, we are accepting submissions from all poets, and our diverse team of readers will be reading blind. We…
If anything, today can be about giving, about gratitude and generosity and an opportunity for good. We’ve collected a handful of those opportunities here, with a literary focus. Nothing fills life with meaning like being the hands and feet of love.…
Here’s a short curation of some of the best new poems hitting the web recently. These seven poets, both established and emerging, all have talent worth stealing learning from. Enjoy, and be grateful, knowing so many more poems deserve to be…
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…
