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:…
Duncan Slagle pins his body to these poems, without seeking right or wrong—everything turns on the body. From the beautiful ghazal, to the simple couplets, Slagle shows a range of both voice and technique, with a consistent painful imagery threading…
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…
We fell in love with this unique poem immediately—DeLuca’s “the numbers don’t add up” performs its subject by ingeniously motorizing the whitespace. Her hand-drawn arrows feel simultaneously like detective notes and choose-your-own-adventure directions, producing a tension that lifts up this…
Congratulations to our winner, Xiao Yue Shan! Thank you to all the finalists and submitters for making this such a beautifully difficult choice this year. “How Often I Have Chosen Love” by Xiao Yue Shan Xiao Yue Shan’s…
New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships—and as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices. Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry One of the longest running contests, the Anhinga Prize has been…
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2018 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. We saw an incredible number of submissions and the quality of writing was extraordinary. Thank you, also, for your patience while…
As Reeman’s title suggests, “IN BOSTON” travels the unsorted emotions of modern romance—& reports back ambivalence, saturated bodies, solo cups. The poem weaves tenderness and despair into every couplet, until we end up like the speaker, “suspended” between the two.…
Noor Hindi is an emerging poet with a beautiful, brand new chapbook just released: Diary of a Filthy Woman from Porkbelly Press. One of her poems originally appeared on Frontier last year, and we’ve been excited to follow her rise…
Rachel Mindell explores the suggestive power of meat here—plugging the poem in to a word, an image, an experience as basic and ancient as breathing. “This is eating,” the poem declares with a wink—because it’s more than that. Just look…
