We’re excited to share this wonderful, in-depth conversation with Tyler Raso, whose forthcoming chapbook, In my dreams/I love like an idea, was selected by Tom Sleigh as the winner of the 2022 Frontier Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming in May.…
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…
A poem that savors stillness, Paula C. Eisenrich’s “One year later…” reflects the speaker’s beloved through an image of life and sustenance that comes from beyond both of them. Its title hints at steadfastness, at patience, and the work of…
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, Eugenia Leigh—author of Bianca (available now from Four Way Books)—shares insight into process, writing as an…
Satya Dash’s poem is a cinematic tour through a memories filled with “unexpected pleasure.” The speaker, who is gripping in their directness, cites the metaphysical and then proceeds to locate this sense of intimacy in a catalogue of everyday occurrences:…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Javier Sandoval, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of North America. About Javier’s poem, the judge J. P. Dancing Bear writes, “This poem captures a lot of different themes…
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’re so excited to share this poem by Carlos A. Pittella, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of Europe. About Carlos’s poem, the judge Aria Aber writes, “The winning poem, “The death of Jean Charles de Menezes”…
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, Meg Eden Kuyatt—author of Good Different (available now from Scholastic Press) and a past Frontier contributor—shares…
“After Fire” holds a quiet grief: a scene so carefully observed and distilled that it feels like a held breath, each line asking us to live inside it. The repetition of sorrow, its insistence on expansion, settles in the air…
