Poetry: Purple by Laura Argiri
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…
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Poet in the Mirror: Kay Ulanday Barrett
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…
Threshing and the Eye of a Fire— an Interview with Nicole Stockburger
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…
How It’s Made: Kathryn Cowles’ Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
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…
Poetry: Decade & Not a Wall by Jose Hernandez Diaz
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…
Luther Hughes’ You Smell Like Outside: A Cute Little Syllabus for March
“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…
Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web: February 2020
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,…
Poetry: Sprawling, the garden is, and fruitful by Justin Danzy
Beauty, life, growth, abundance—these are a few things a garden can represent, and of these few things comes family, the sacredness of one’s family, the ways in which love is the vehicle. In Justin Danzy’s, Sprawling, the garden is, and…
March 2020 Deadlines: 12 Contests and Magazines With Deadlines This Month
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…
The 2019 OPEN — Winner and Finalists!
Congratulations to the winners of Frontier Poetry’s 2019 OPEN and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work. A BIG round of applause to JP Grasser, the winner…
