Sometimes it is nature that is able to portray our exact experience; “When I Die You Don’t Have to Divert the River for Me” by Barbara Mossberg reminds us the river can represent life and death – “Meanwhile the river…
This is it! Just two days left to submit for an opportunity to spend 10 days in sunny Los Angeles learning and building community. The 2020 Antioch-Frontier Fellowship Closes Saturday, February 15 We are incredibly excited for this unique partnership:…
In just three days (!!), our Antioch Fellowship closes for submissions. It’s an amazing opportunity for any writer: the chance to participate as a full student in Antioch University LA’s highly ranked MFA Residency in 2020, all expenses paid. We chatted…
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…
“The Introvert & Life Beside” by D.R. Shipp reminds us sometimes the monotony of life draws a black cloud over our heads, and sometimes the day is filled with marvel, with Cobb salads, with crowds. And these things, the everyday-ness…
“You Smell Like Outside” is Luther Hughes’ wonderful column for Frontier where he seeks to answer the question every month: can poetry help us with our real, day-to-day life? For February, Luther’s continuing his series, A Cute Little Syllabus—a new…
“I unmake all these memories, and the shrapnels are balls in my armpits”–how often do we find ourselves stilled by memory and trauma? In Hussain Ahmed’s “The Wall as the Diameter,” we briefly enter a world in which a speaker…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Chelsea Dingman’s Through a Small Ghost, their second collection, published by University of Georgia Press. With our How It’s Made series, we endeavor to take away…
New month, new courage: submit yourself 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 Voices…
Through beauty, benevolence, and brazenness, Matt Mitchell’s “LAY ME ON THE TABLE + PUT FLOWER IN MY MOUTH,” reminds us that home is always around the corner even when we least expect it, even in the “crowning bulb of blood…
