A primary mission of Frontier is to provide high quality resources and practical help for serious poets—so we’ve been reaching out to poetry professors to help give clarity to this strange journey and stranger craft. This month, we got the…
March, and spring in the midwest is more of an idea than a reality until months down the line. With weather that swerves between snow and almost-t shirt-wearing levels of warmth within the span of a week, it has a…
Like the snake that appears in its second line, Arman Avasia’s sonnet is a transformation through intimacy. Visceral with desire that is amplified in the animal imagery scattered throughout, the reader is brought into the “urgent” and left in the…
A portrait of the speaker centered around the image of a flower, Sara Hovda’s “White Peony” does the seamless work of communicating an entire story through meditation on an object. The reader is brought into the tensions that keep the…
Riddled with distances reflected in the poem’s form, both as three parts that span multiple countries, and in the slashes that lineate within its columns, Sabyah Seyam’s “Diaspora Triptych” is the kind of poem that we will continue to turn…
With precise control of image, Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong’s poem is an unfolding, one that builds toward its brutal, blunt turns. This is a kind of elegy for the violence that reveals more than what the speaker should have to know:…
Today we’re publishing this gorgeous piece by 2022 Nature & Place Prize third place winner, Noel Quiñones! How to Color Mami Notes: “How to Color Mami” is written in a poetic form I created called…
It’s such an honor to share this poem by Dan Barton, second place winner of our 2022 Nature & Place Prize, with you today! River Eclogue: Narcissus & Echo at the Bridge after Ed Roberson looking out on cement-framed…
We’re so excited to share this poem by 2022 Nature & Place Prize winner, Anna Newman! About Anna’s poem, the judge Amaud Johnson writes, “I know what the meek shall inherit, but maybe our lives are lesser when we hesitate…
A poem as incisive as the blade it mentions, Varun U. Shetty’s “Ars Poetica” moves from a singular first person speaker to a plural we. With that sudden inclusion, this poem requests we examine who and what is dissected in…
