“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 September, Luther turns toward craft, with an insightful and interrogative…
The musicality of “The Fact of Things” surprises—it’s skinny shape and journalistic voice bely a deep song about the fraught beauty of the world around us. Ja’net Danielo’s words firmly hold our gaze, right at the facts, at the bus…
We’re pleased to present Two Peas in a Pod—a small column in which our favorite poets pair a book of poems with a book of prose. This month, poet Aria Aber shares her recommendations. All about Love by bell hooks…
We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Jake Skeets’ Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, from Milkweed Editions. With our How It’s Made series,…
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…
“Hypostasis” soaks in mist, in daughters missing, in the mute colors of a dark and eager earth—in a few stanzas, Triin Paja peers into death and finds a violin. Listen to it sing: Hypostasis Have you thanked God for…
Carl Phillips’ slim new Star Map with Action Figures, arriving next week from Sibling Rivalry Press, weighs less than it looks—in the hand, it wants to spread wings and take off. The twenty pages of poetry represent an integral unit…
Sarah Carey’s “Consistency” breaks itself on the idea of the love poem—what changes in marriage that changes love? what changes in ourselves? With wet and gripping imagery and a voice interrogative of all, Carey’s poem creates new, loving, meanings for…
David Hernandez says her poems in this debut collection ” are deft, attentive, and often turn the quotidian into moments steeped in mystery,” and Charles Webb declares it a “first book of extraordinary maturity”—Alexandra Umlas’ At the Table of the Unknown gracefully,…
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…
