We’re so proud to share some insight into the lives and hearts of today’s poets with our Poet In The Mirror series. This week, Kathleen Ossip—author of July (available now from Sarabande Books)—shares insight into feminist writings, changing forms throughout…
We’re so happy to share the insights of Alexander Parsons, Director of the MFA program at the University of Houston. Applying to an MFA can be overwhelming, and gathering information through websites, open houses, and Twitter threads requires timely navigation and sometimes…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Allison Adair’s award winning debut, The Clearing, which won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize from Milkweed Editions. With our How It’s Made series, we endeavor to…
Fam, times are weird—so many of us have to figure out new ways of doing old things. Book launches, an established feature of our wonderful community of writers, have been particularly hard hit, and we’d love to make room for…
As a platform focused on uplifting the emerging and new poets entering out community, we’ve had many discussions about our complicated relationship with the word “emerging.” Jiwon Choi’s interview-essay hybrid here explores the weight and worry of the term beautifully,…
Sarah Carey has been a generous guest for our Poet in the Mirror series, where we explore the strange profession of which we all aspire—today we learn about Accommodations‘—her latest collection, winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest—acceptance journey, the…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Savannah Sipple’s WWJD & Other Poems, from Sibling Rivalry Press. With our How It’s Made series, we endeavor to take away some of that ever-present mystery…
New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships. Remember, too, acceptances and rejections are by-products of this journey—crafting your authentic art is the goal. And as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices…
A primary mission of Frontier is to provide high quality resources and practical help for serious poets—so we’ve been reaching out to poetry professors to help give clarity to this strange journey and stranger craft. This month, we got the…
This poem, from Brandon Melendez just-released debut from Write Bloody Publishing—Gold that Frames the Mirror—is an affirmation, a confession of acceptance. And while the speaker’s body ripens with a choice: to hate, or to forgive, so much depends on the swing of a…
