Frontier had the honor of chatting over email with Craig Santos Perez, guest judge of the 2023 Roots & Roads Prize about his work and insights into poetry. Please enjoy his thoughtful responses, and be sure to check out our…
A poem foregrounding the distance between our ability to describe and a thing in itself, Cindy King’s “Noumenon” is a whirling syntactical search. Absence, which emerges in the final lines, becomes the catalyst for the question of what was it…
As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
We often wonder, what are fresh and engaging ways to approach the lush tradition of love poetry? Xueyi Zhou’s poem is a gorgeous example of this—unexpected, driven by a compelling voice and constant, charged turns. Love Poem by a Cynic…
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 month, Katherine Gaffney—Frontier Poetry contributor and author of Fool in a Blue House (available now from University…
Lyric and sharp, this is poem drives home the importance of considering the relationship between form and content. Visibly contained yet multiplying language within its own confines, Sher Ting Chim’s triptych trains an unflinching eye on the power-enforced distances between…
New month, new courage: submit your work 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…
Stranging moments of romantic intimacies and distances, Gabrielle Grace Hogan brings us a poem full of unmirrored longings contained by the domestic image yet entirely new, given to the reader in unexpected renderings of the everyday. Devotion In the kitchen,…
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 month, Dennis James Sweeney—author of You’re the Woods Too (available now from Essay Press)—shares insight into process,…
A portrait of a grief observed, Alexandria Peterson’s new poem reminds us of the power of the carefully-attended-to image that overflows the space of a moment. Through the detailing of simple actions, the reader receives the weight of the speaker’s…
