Dear writer, Chapbooks are a huge milestone for poets, and we’re always looking forward to the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest—where we get to find that one electric bundle of poems that rocks our world in less than 30 pages. We…
In “Toni Morrison Speaks Posthumously on The Oprah Winfrey Show After an Audience Views When They See Us,” Yolanda J. Franklin recalls the history and prevalence of racism in America, specifically The Central Park 5 Case. Written with an alarming…
Here’s a short selection, from our own Jose, of some of the best new poems hitting the web this February and early March. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from Patrycja Humienik in…
In this surreal, fabulist poem, the speaker in Gabriella Balza’s “FIELD NOTES” watches as her home transforms, “slow and shapeless.” Left to wander among the bare trees, in a bizarre unraveling of events, the speaker begins to realize that while…
In “Your iris needs light to make an image,” Sean Cho Ayres zeroes in on the cold essence of the scientific method and juxtaposes it with the quivering vulnerability of a fawn at the mercy of Mother Nature. Cleverly, Cho…
Black Lives Matter. We must all do what we can, one individual choice at a time, to dismantle white supremacy—in our selves, our relationships, our communities, and our institutions. Frontier stands in unrelenting support of the protestors demanding change—we send…
