In “Maintenance Request Hotline,” the speaker lists a number of “non-emergencies” from the perspective of a contemporary woman living in the city. As the poem implies, they are not emergencies, after all, because women have no choice but to casually…
Congratulations to Abby Johnson, winner of the 2021 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Kazim Ali, and a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work this year. We’ll…
In “Ithaca,” the breaking of the body, like the breaking of the line, signifies more than just physical fracture: memory, possibility, the void; all weigh heavily. Ithaca
In “Violin with Nipple Grafts,” the speaker compares their human body to the configuration of a violin; similarly, the intricacies of their composition are always on display for a skeptical audience. Violin with Nipple Grafts The significance of inheriting a…
In “As a Prominent Scholar Praises the Grace Jones Cover of “She’s Lost Control,” I Consider Our Blackness within the Punk Aesthetic,” the speaker reflects on the complexities of experimenting with the avant-garde or Punk scene while Black; ultimately, the…
In “The Last Summer of Innocence,” the speaker remembers the fickle nature of youth; the intricacies of those summers, however, never dies in the speaker’s ardent memory. The Last Summer of Innocence …
Here’s a short selection, from our own Jose, of some of the best new prose poems that hit the web this June. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from Ellen June Wright in…
In “After Learning of the Affair,” we learn of the speaker’s deep hurt following the betrayal of a lover; what follows is exquisite line after line of their delicate yet fierce suffering. AFTER LEARNING OF THE AFFAIR, I DOWN…
In “Plate Tectonics,” the speaker examines the vulnerability of life before meeting their lover; the rabbit-hole of fleeting thoughts that follows serves to mimic love’s illusive nature. Plate Tectonics i. You have already endured our greatest fear: your first…
In “National Parks I Visited While Grieving the Death of My Mother: Yellowstone,” the speaker gains insight into life and death while visiting nature’s treasures and hearing of a man’s fall; importantly, also, through witnessing the mundane yet complex beauty…
