Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
2025 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part Three: Shane Emery and Mahal Garcia Liu
In “Wheel of Fortune,” Emery’s command of form reveals how horrors can exist in isolated silos of devastation, weighing heavily on the mind — yet they blur at the edges, bleeding into one another until they become something incomprehensible, vast,…
2025 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part Two: Ariana Yeatts-Lonske, Louie Alexander, Carleen Liu
In “To the man in my neighborhood who harassed me for ambulatory wheelchair use” Ariana Yeatts-Lonske earnestly challenges our understanding of what is “natural” by collapsing the boundaries between herself and the natural world. Simultaneously nature —high heat, rising rivers,…
In “To the man in my neighborhood who harassed me for ambulatory wheelchair use” Ariana Yeatts-Lonske earnestly challenges our understanding of what is “natural” by collapsing the boundaries between herself and the natural world. Simultaneously nature —high heat, rising rivers,…
2025 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part One: Francis Carpentier, Vuong Pham, and S Asher Sund
In “ice cream for the apostles,” the poet elevates a simple post-church ritual into a sacred act through meticulous imagery and pacing. The tone oscillates between quiet devotion and understated yearning, transforming the ordinary into something like sacrament. “Pulau Bidong”…
In “ice cream for the apostles,” the poet elevates a simple post-church ritual into a sacred act through meticulous imagery and pacing. The tone oscillates between quiet devotion and understated yearning, transforming the ordinary into something like sacrament. “Pulau Bidong”…
Poetry: “Trying to Describe My Mother’s Relationship to Me” by Anna Abraham Gasaway
Anna Gasaway is clearly exasperated and frustrated with the dynamic she presents in this poem; the brilliance is in the accessibility of the examples she provides. Since a wide audience can have a varied level of exposure to all kinds…
Anna Gasaway is clearly exasperated and frustrated with the dynamic she presents in this poem; the brilliance is in the accessibility of the examples she provides. Since a wide audience can have a varied level of exposure to all kinds…
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