The implied sterility of a hospital bed; communication through a tablet; processing death in a sterile environment. These experiences during hospice care are contrasted beautifully with changing seasons in Leland Seese’s poem. The silence of the words a fatherly specter…
In Ashleigh Xindan Kennedy’s poem, the reader is trapped between past and present, longing and loss, put into the perspective of both Icarus and the Minotaur. The narrator explores what it is to be human or maybe not human at…
Join us in celebrating this poem by Chace Morris, the last of our finalists of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! Thank you for joining us and reading the fantastic finalists. Look out for more poetry in 2024! Hex As Language Of…
Join us in celebrating this poem by Georgio Russell, one of our finalists of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! Please stay tuned as we publish the rest of the finalists throughout the month of December. Halved Sonnets: A Diagram of Distances…
Join us in celebrating this poem by Amy Wolstenholme, one of our finalists of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! Please stay tuned as we publish the rest of the finalists throughout the month of December. The Ballad of Aisle Three I…
Welcome to LINE LEVEL: Craft Lessons from Poets of Color, a monthly column in which writer, editor, and educator Joanna Acevedo zooms in on an element of craft from the work of BIPOC poets. LINE LEVEL unfolds in three parts:…
Join us in celebrating this poem by Zachariah Claypole White, one of our finalists of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! Please stay tuned as we publish the rest of the finalists throughout the month of December. Today, while reading the definition…
Join us in celebrating this poem by Yolanda J. Franklin, one of our finalists of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! Please stay tuned as we publish the rest of the finalists throughout the month of December. Pecola Breedlove Watches Zora Tether…
Divyasri Krishnan’s “Ars Poetica” perfectly balances the pastoral image of a flighty canary with the urban one of languishing on a train. These two central scenes build a sense of tension, an ode to liminal life spaces– to the “beauty…
Join us in celebrating this poem by MaKshya Tolbert, winner of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! We’re so delighted to award “Autobiography of not a horse” as the winner of our $5000 OPEN prize. Please stay tuned as we’re publishing the…
