JP Grasser has won the 2019 Frontier OPEN and its $5000 prize with his “A Brief History of Mercy.” You’re invited to join us in this inevitable decision by reading the work below. Congratulations JP! A BRIEF HISTORY OF…
We are so pleased to share with you all that poet Dujie Tahat has been chosen as our New Voices Fellow for 2020. Our New Voices Fellowship is designed to uplift and support emerging poets from traditionally marginalized communities. Last…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Felicity Sheehy, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this March. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Ross Gay in Poetry Daily,…
“Retrato in Names” is prose with energy and music and eager rush. Through the intimacy of nicknames, féi hernandez investigates the trajectory of a family wrestling with its own definition and meaning, of a daughter and a sister and a…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Meg Eden’s newest collection from Press 53, Drowning in the Floating World, which “immerses us into the Japanese natural disaster known as 3/11: the 2011 Tōhoku…
First, a sincere thank you to all the finalists of the 2019 Frontier OPEN for partnering with us. All of these poems deserve high praise, featuring work by Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, Xiao Yumi, Leyla Colpan, Jennifer Garfield, Jed Myers, David…
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.…
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…
