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, Destiny Hemphill—author of motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (available now from Action Books) and a…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Iqra Khan, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of South Asia. About Iqra’s poem, the judge Tarfia Faizullah writes, “This poem astonishes in how its rigor of structure conjoins…
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…
Electric, “Quilox” is bent to the confines of its form just as this moment is bent to the confines of the night, the poem’s abrupt enjambments a reminder that day will interrupt the charged “light of the dark/-ness.” This is…
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…
This poem’s vision, or aspiration, is one of abundance, basking in the speaker’s “own plenty.” Alexa Patrick’s poem sings, and in its singing creates a world so vivid we can touch it, so vivid that we, like this speaker’s hopes…
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…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Global Poetry Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that the recipients of our $1000 prizes are Iqra Khan, Abigail Mengesha, Carlos A. Pittella, and Javier Sandoval. We’re…
March, and spring in the midwest is more of an idea than a reality until months down the line. With weather that swerves between snow and almost-t shirt-wearing levels of warmth within the span of a week, it has a…
Like the snake that appears in its second line, Arman Avasia’s sonnet is a transformation through intimacy. Visceral with desire that is amplified in the animal imagery scattered throughout, the reader is brought into the “urgent” and left in the…
