Congratulations to the talented poet Donte Collins, winner of the 2022 New Voices Contest! The entire Frontier Team offers a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. Donte Collins has been selected for the $3000 prize by the incredible José Olivarez, …
The natural world often mirrors back to us our most primal acts. Looking to a horse giving birth, the poem’s speaker transmutes themselves between a human and horse the startling brightness of motherhood. What makes a poem of nature so…
A poem that mingles the delight of budding desire against the backdrop of the natural world, “Primatology of Longing” moves readers from the snowy day of a first encounter to the soft non-verbal language of monkeys. Primatology of Longing…
A site of history and a landscape once marred by violence is reimagined with a gesture towards gentleness in Gellman’s poem. ‘Night Logic’ begins its readers at the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard but then cracks open the world so…
A poem contained by a single childhood memory. The poem’s logic moves between the space of domesticity and the ominous as a young Nigerian boy comes to understand what his role in his family will become. Yusuf’s poem guides its…
Love is our single most power that defies the finality of death. Gorgeously achy, yet grounded in a domestic setting, the poem’s speaker paints a landscape of longing punctuated by hope. Speaking to My Lover from Beyond the Grave …
A tender record-keeping of the body and its ability to turn on its owner, Theo LeGro’s poem navigates a history that resists blame, that resists anger, but rather leans into what could have been–a life not marred by disease. And…
A prose poem guided by the touch, blood, faith, and obligation, Saúl Hernández has woven a delicate tapestry of lace with language. Writing that is equal parts revealing as it is visceral, Hernández invites us into a world that straddles…
While tapping into the playful and surreal, Katherine Gaffney’s poem illustrates the transformation of pregnancy while also negotiating what it means to “shape and ears” such a dance that makes the body fluid and magical. THE BURLESQUE OF MOTHERHOOD…
Olúwádáre Pópóọla’s poem takes on the shape of water and seemingly its history–one that is vast and complicated with suffering. From a “rootless life” to a “failing government”, the speaker guides its readers through of dense geography of language and…
