Here, Jennifer Givhan lays bare a particular American anxiety, in all it’s ambiguity, in all its banal suburbanness. “The Monsters Are Due” is about motherhood and childhood and Americanhood—a reminder that once eyes are open, we have to fight to…
Congratulations to the twenty-five poets chosen for our 2017 Award for New Poets shortlist! The following poems were sent to Tyehimba Jess for final selection and the winners will be announced on or before January 1, 2018. Thank you again…
Thank you, poets. Our hearts are bursting from the response to our Frontier OPEN contest—cannot wait to give one special poet the $5000 check! We take our responsibility with your words very seriously, and our aim is to always treat…
Cassandra Farrin’s poem rustles with the sound of waves and devils. “The Whale” is exactly how you make surprising a literary figure so well known as to be automatically cliche in lesser hands. Let the lines fill your mouth with…
Winter’s here and we’ve gathered some incredible opportunities for poets in December. Fellowships, magazines, awards and internships: write, submit, repeat. & as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices. 2017 Frontier OPEN // One Poem // $5000 Send…
We are very excited to announce that our annual Frontier OPEN is open for only a short time longer! For this contest, we are accepting submissions from all poets, and our diverse team of readers will be reading blind. We…
Katie Bickham’s “Hiroshima, Japan, 1945” is a masterclass in characterization within a poem. Yoshiko lives and breathes with real, genuine depth across the 36 lines—and when a poem works this hard to give us a character so delightful, wisdom is…
If anything, today can be about giving, about gratitude and generosity and an opportunity for good. We’ve collected a handful of those opportunities here, with a literary focus. Nothing fills life with meaning like being the hands and feet of love.…
Rosebud Ben-Oni’s love poem curls into itself, thematically and visually—put the anaphoric “to” on your tongue and let her generosity of language and image carry you into equine affection. There’s so much given here, and where a lesser poem would…
Here’s a short curation of some of the best new poems hitting the web recently. These seven poets, both established and emerging, all have talent worth stealing learning from. Enjoy, and be grateful, knowing so many more poems deserve to be…
