“You Smell Like Outside” is Luther Hughes’ wonderful column for Frontier where he seeks to answer the question every month: can poetry help us with our real, day-to-day life? For August, he’s exploring how to be in his new city,…
We’re honored to share with you all this new essay by the wonderful poet Andrés Cerpa. His reflections on the way we all influence each other are decidedly apt for our community today, our remixes, our crowd-sourced poetry—and he couldn’t have…
Natasha Tretheway calls the book “a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination.” And Patrick Rosal: “In Some Say the Lark, anything can erupt into fury, anything into tenderness.” Jennifer Chang’s second…
I Know Your Kind by William Brewer is a bristling collection of poems set in West Virginia’s Oxycontin capital, selected for the National Poetry Series. “The result is a chorus of interrogations that peer at addiction from every angle,” says…
Afterland by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press) “The sky sleeps quilted in a militia of stars.” —from “Light from a Burning Citadel” Winning the 2016 Walt Whitman Award, Mai Der Vang’s debut collection is a manifold text, acting at times…
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…
