Jeremy Cantor’s poem, “My Main Squeeze,” was originally submitted for our Hermit Crab Challenge, and although it didn’t end up taking home the prize, the poem was so memorable we at Frontier just couldn’t let it go. Irreverent and playful,…
The speaker in Thi Nguyen’s “In the Time of Tuberculosis” describes a journey through a twisted and complicated set of events, but this long and complicated poem is memorable for its specificity and meticulous attention to detail. At times, it’s…
Morgan Tinin’s poem is full of delicious contradictions and quiet desperation. Tinin begins with the simple, pure shot of desire that we all can relate to—the car itself, the sporty, cool, effortless status symbol that brings social capital and status…
Jordan Ranft isn’t conflict avoidant. The first poem we’ve picked might be about manipulating one’s own feelings, but if we had to guess his love language, it’s probably not words of affirmation. It’s probably something else. His words were intense…
Poet Nancy Miller Gomez chose the winner of our 2024 Debut Chapbook Contest, Examining a Dress, by Jessie Leary, which will be out in the fall. She also did us the honor of answering a few questions about poetry, her own poetic…
Geoff White’s poem is quietly brilliant in its repetition and its devious device. The way it plays with spacing, flipping, and mirroring creates all kinds of possibilities. No matter what our beliefs, we all understand the way people we love…
“Speech,” by Edward Manzi doesn’t give us much, but there is a slightly tongue-in-cheek aspect to this tiny little gem of a prose poem. The poem is ostensibly about speech, but it’s really about much more. Manzi’s poem is about…
There’s a dream-like quality to Ian Powell-Palm’s “Self-Portrait.” It’s hard to pin down precisely what about this poem is so arresting, but the tone, the mood, the state of mind—all of these swirling, intangible and ephemeral characteristics manage to haunt…
“I think, Oh my goodness that’s the voice of a god,” writes E. Leah Davis (Liz Davis) in “Stars as my soul,” which takes us on a journey from the speaker’s childhood in the 90s all the way to what…
Smriti Bhoker brings a levity to her poem, which easily could turn dark, as she taps into the well of fear that lives in every writer’s heart—what if we find ourselves suddenly unable to write? It goes beyond writer’s block…
