Congratulations to the talented emerging poet Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, winner of the 2021 Industry Prize, and a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work. Eduardo Martinez-Leyva has been selected for…
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 “Girlish, too,” the speaker navigates the “white kingdom” of the Midwest which can be overwhelming for folks deemed as “other.”; at the end of the poem, though, they announce their resilience: “There are more things unbroken here /than what…
In “The Louder I Sing,” the speaker wrestles with the void of departure: “come back come back come back?” The Louder I Sing Your glass left a perfect circle, and I wondered if a more perfect circle had ever…
In “Glossary for Healing,” the speaker urgently seeks to uncover that which is wounded. Through the clever use of a poetic graph, we gain insight into several phases: birth, girlhood, revival and reprise. Glossary for Healing
Here’s a short selection, from our own Jose, of some of the best new poems that hit the web in December 2021. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from Molly Sturdevant in Five…
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 week, Jennifer Huang— author of Return Flight (available now from Milkweed Editions)— shares insight into writing about…
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…
In “Someday I’ll Love Danielle DeTiberus,” the speaker battles with the poet and the person: Danielle DeTiberus, herself. Confessional and defiant, this persona poem excites on many levels. Someday I’ll Love Danielle DeTiberus Even though she doesn’t exactly exist.…
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2021 Award for New Poets, selected by the guest judges Rosebud Ben-Oni, Andrés Cerpa, and Mai Der Vang. Today, we have “Ashes Arts and Crafts” by Emily Hyland.…
