We’re so happy to have had the chance to look under the hood of Savannah Sipple’s WWJD & Other Poems, from Sibling Rivalry Press. With our How It’s Made series, we endeavor to take away some of that ever-present mystery…
Patricia Murphy has been a generous guest for our Poet in the Mirror series, where we explore the strange profession of which we all aspire—today we learn about Bully Love‘s—her latest collection from Press 53—acceptance journey, the surprise publication of…
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…
Nicole Stockburger writes in investigation of the evocative “crow-flying hour”—to fill the shape of a absent you with words, with mountains and fire and birds. “At Dusk when I Hear an Arrow” explains: time is never enough to fill the hole…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Bailey Cohen, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this August. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Emilia Phillips in Adroit Journal,…
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…
Hajjar Baban reveals in “Love Litany” a universal maternity—we all make babies out of our dreams one way or another. Our babies, who keep us up at night: as horror, as negotiator, as double, as hope, as center of all…
Charity E. Yoro’s prose poem opens the line to syntax in the way a prose poem should—the repetitive dependent clauses leaning against one another like dominoes, reflecting the speaker’s own “stained teeth” vulnerability. Even prose can howl, even prose can sing.…
Jericho Brown has spoken: this year’s Chapbook Contest winner is Naima Yael Tokunow! She will receive the $2000 prize and publication and distribution of her free digital chapbook through Frontier Poetry. We are honored to get to work with her.…
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…
