Poetry: Fly-Infested Houseplant by Tarik Dobbs
In “Fly-infested Houseplant,” the speaker relates to a rotting houseplant after experiencing trauma; “don’t touch me,” they’re just wanting to be left alone, “ready/ to be knocked off the shelf.”
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In Class with Professor Daniel B. Summerhill
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…
Poetry: North Coast Chorus by Bethan Tyler
In “North Coast Chorus,” the speaker empathizes with the rampant imperfections of nature; like the poet’s flailing body, nature, waves and wind, crash and yet manage to resemble rebirth. North Coast Chorus Somewhere near Trinidad on the coast road…
Editors Talk: Joanna Valente, Editor of Yes, Poetry
As a platform for emerging poets, our mission is to provide practical help for serious writers. The community lifts itself up together or not at all. In that light, we’ve been asking some great editors from around the literary community…
Poetry: Hemingway Country by Monica Rico
In “HEMINGWAY COUNTRY,” the speaker describes the difficulties of growing up Latinx, or non-white, in a world of whiteness and suspicion. Always a target, the speaker learns to navigate a world where love seems foreign or violent and the only…
Poetry: Smokescreens by Emma Miao
In “Smokescreens,” the speaker skillfully juxtaposes harsh realities from around the world; “we are all animals” the speaker announces, capable of being both “broken, bruised,” but also capable of song, like the deer in the mist. Smokescreens In this…
Poetry: Maintenance Request Hotline by Elizabeth Langemak
In “Maintenance Request Hotline,” the speaker lists a number of “non-emergencies” from the perspective of a contemporary woman living in the city. As the poem implies, they are not emergencies, after all, because women have no choice but to casually…
Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web: July 2021
Here’s a short selection, from our own Jose, of some of the best new poems that hit the web this July. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from Neha Maqsood in The Kenyon…
Poetry: Ithaca by Yong-Yu Huang
In “Ithaca,” the breaking of the body, like the breaking of the line, signifies more than just physical fracture: memory, possibility, the void; all weigh heavily. Ithaca
In Class with Professor Donato Martinez of Santa Ana College
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…
