Though the poem would split you into stilts and beads and strangeness, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s “What I Said to God” also brings you back, sinks you back into your body—that which you, so very often, forget you are. Notice the gentleness…
Congratulations to the winners of Frontier Poetry’s 2019 Award for New Poets and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we and the judges reviewed all the extraordinary work. A BIG round of…
“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 December, Luther’s continuing his series, A Cute Little Syllabus—a new…
2020 is nearly here, you know what that means: Lue’s 10 Poems by Queer Poets of Color! Enjoy—and share your thanks with these wonderful poets, these wonderful mags, and all the people who made 2019 not only bearable, but joyful.…
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…
Like most contemporary sonneteers, Anthony Borruso has taken aim at the right margin of his “Another Dusky Sonnet” and the lines bristle with dynamic force and momentum—like bones protruding from the sand. And like the poem’s inspiration, Dali, he builds his…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Bailey Cohen, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this December. These six poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Ronnie Nocella in Glass Poetry,…
Chisom Okafor, who we’ve been admiring for a while now, delivers a dark and moving portrait of a specific and not unfamiliar moment: “A shorter Note On My Coming Out.” Chisom speaks with such ease through his untouched dark, his…
When we read contributor Kendra Allen’s latest book, When You Learn the Alphabet (winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction), we knew we had to have her share some of her wonderful writing about the special space between poetry and…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of moira j’s Bury Me In Thunder, their debut collection, published by Sundress Books. With our How It’s Made series, we endeavor to take away some of…
