Nothing is more important to us at Frontier than our community of emerging writers—our amazing volunteer readers joined forces with the readers from The Masters Review to choose four literary charities to receive $250 each. We are honored to have…
Thomas Nguyen’s poem makes of the readers own body a delicate collection of pine needles and mud. With greens and blacks and marbled whites, “mythologies” reveals a world dark, haunting—we’re all, by the end, thirsty with prayer. mythologies &…
We are so pleased to share with you all that Susan Yanos has been chosen as our New Voices Fellow. She started writing poetry in her 50s, and her work displays an exceptional closeness to contemporary poetry, our collective movements…
This pair of poems by Asa Drake offer a harmony unique to themselves—one magnifying the other, and both about love, both filled out with Drake’s assured confidence in the strange. The Wasp Doesn’t shelter herself in work. Who is…
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.…
Charles Kell’s poetic missive leaps across associative gaps with subtle ease, tip toes through history, through violence. “Oblivion Letter” is all dark corners and boys named Night and is a little scary, to be honest—eyes gazing across the couplets like…
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web. These five poets, both established and emerging, all have talent worth enjoying (& copying). Enjoy, and be grateful, knowing so many awesome poets are making our…
Kai Carlson-Wee’s single stanza poem lands on the page with weight and space and time. “Mental Health” works to unfold the banality of medicated routine, while never losing sight of the drugs that punctuate its hours, or the slow fog…
We are very excited to announce that our annual Summer Poetry Award is open for only 30 more days! For this contest, we are accepting submissions from new and emerging poets. Send us work that is blister, that is color,…
A little while ago, we got the chance to sit face to face with one of our favorite contributors, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda. His collection—Flashes & Verse… Becoming Attractions—was just released last month from Unsolicited Press. Our conversation was fun and expansive:…
