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…
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web. These six poets, both established and emerging, all have talent worth enjoying (& copying). Enjoy, and be grateful, knowing so many awesome poets are making our…
Our Industry Prize has officially closed! Working with our panel of esteemed judges is such an honor and a privilege that wouldn’t be possible without all of your support. Without such an incredible community of responsive and supportive poetfriends, none…
J.L. Wall crystallizes here a dark passion on the bud of existential doubt—his poem, “Counting the Omer,” is a deeply familiar why God in the face of inexplicable tragedy, turning softly on Wall’s fresh imagery and sincere ambivalence. Counting the Omer…
