Bayley Sprowl’s visceral “SKIN OFF MY BACK” sings the song of the body—its dirge, its elastic melancholy and trembling want of other. The poem seeks to understand: such want in the end, and in the beginning, may only ever be…
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…
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 were so excited to see this strong narrative poem in the slush—a story of a young girl with a rock in her hand and purple in her blood. Laura Argiri pulls out character and action and scene from poetic…
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, Kay Ulanday Barrett—author of the new More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020)—graciously reveals their strategy…
Nicole Stockburger’s debut Nowhere Buelah, from Unicorn Press, deserves so much attention. Ambitious, sophisticated, and intimately lived in—the collection offers a journey through the rural Blue Ridge region of North Carolina, as well as the rural Blue Ridge region of…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Kathryn Cowels’ second and newest collection from Milkweed Books, Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World, of which Mary Ruefle says, “The luckiest readers [of this…
There is something wonderful about the prose poem, the way it elongates our necessity of closure, and the way, too, we are swept up into the rhythm of the sentence; the prose poem illustrates a world we both know and…
“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 March, Luther’s continuing his series, A Cute Little Syllabus—a new…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Felicity Sheehy, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this January. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Terrance Owens in Quarterly West,…
