We are excited to announce our inaugural Poetry Award contest, to be judged by 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry recipient, Tyehimba Jess! The winning poem will be awarded $2000 and publication online // 15 finalists will be recognized as well.…
Lance Larsen’s Sad Jar of Atoms rolls in the ear like the voice of a friend. The lines pile and caress each other, holding onto intimacy even as we’re stretched from domestic quibbles to ancient history. Exploring the overlapping associations…
The summer season for submissions can be quite dry, and a lot of the great journals close their doors through the next couple of months, opening back up later in the year. But don’t despair! We’ve put together a great…
Safia Elhillo’s The January Children has been on of the most exciting collections of 2017. These two new poems show why. Here, Elhillo comfortably explores established and invented forms with her beautiful, consistent focus on language, and bodies, and the hot spot where two cultures collide. There…
Terrance Hayes says her poetry is “indispensable… These poems are fire.” “Stunning,” declares Angela Davis, “[this] volume reminds us that conflict and contradiction can produce hope and that poetry can orient us toward a future we may not yet realize…
If you haven’t yet read a poem by the rising poet Kaveh Akbar, “Tassiopeia” is a great place to start: beautiful language dances between fresh images of the body and confessions of faith. Kaveh writes gracefully, without awkwardness or hesitation, and this poem…
Olio, by Tyehimba Jess, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. The depths Jess went to produce this 200+ page artifact of American History gives us critic’s vertigo—just so much…
Jim Daniels has produced poetry about work with singular focus for the entirety of his distinguished career. At Frontier, we also believe that work is an ever more apt poetic subject—precisely because it affects all the other subjects in a…
Sonnets can be intimidating for new poets, but interest in the classic form is alive and well. Tyehimba Jess filled his Pulitzer-winning Olio with sonnets—syncopated sonnets, a crown of sonnets, sideways siamese sonnets; Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s title poem in The Crown…
At Frontier, we will be publishing 3-4 new authors each month through our featured poetry posts every Friday. All year long. We are already scheduling out a few emerging poets who have submitted their work this last month, and we…
