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…
In Matthew Tuckner’s elegy, the poem becomes a microcosm of the world and writing the urgent act of capturing “the many things / I don’t want you to miss,” the precision of its speaker’s language laden with the highest stakes.…
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, Shaina Phenix—author of To Be Named Something Else (available now from University of Arkansas Press) and former…
Sonya Lara evokes a lush, quiet moment at the edge of a desire almost–but not quite–uttered. Opening from scene into meditation, this poem is one in which every movement is felt, flowing like water from one image to the next.…
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…
We get so excited over poems that really lean into their own forms, and Alexa Luborsky’s “Image Map” does just that. In an endless loop of stanzas mapped against visual object, the speaker’s strange and striking metaphors examine interpretation in…
A poem that in its concision sings hope against “the bane” of burdening histories, Samuel A. Betiku’s aubade claims tomorrow as a place not just of survival, but beyond it into “blossoming.” Aubade with Tomorrow This is the bane: history…
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, Cynthia Manick—author of No Sweet Without Brine (available now from Amistad) and former Frontier contributor—shares insight into…
This is a poem that viscerally delights in its own language, even while acknowledging “the nomenclature is so / clunky.” In flashes of sensation, moments loaded with flavor and texture, the speaker flits in and out through the communication of…
It’s a joy to share this poem by Sara Elkamel, third place winner of our 2023 Hurt & Healing Prize. Join us in celebrating this piece, and if you haven’t already, you can see other winning poems published here. …
