Featured Poetry
Frontier OPEN 2020 Finalists: Josh Nguyen, Remi Recchia, and Sabrina San Miguel
First, a sincere thank you to all the finalists for partnering with us. All of these poems deserve high praise. For the final Part 3, we’re sharing work by Joshua Nguyen, Remi Recchia, and Sabrina San Miguel. You can read…
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Frontier OPEN 2020 Finalists: Taylor Byas, Taneum Bambrick, & Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
First, a sincere thank you to all the finalists for partnering with us. All of these poems deserve high praise. For Part 2, we’re sharing work by Taylor Byas, Taneum Bambrick, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. Part 3 arrives tomorrow! You can…
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Frontier OPEN 2020 Finalists: Kim Addonizio, Elizabeth Shvarts, & Itiola Jones
First, a sincere thank you to all the finalists for partnering with us. All of these poems deserve high praise. For Part 1, we’re sharing work by Kim Addonizio, Elizabeth Shvarts, Itiola Jones. The pieces are diverse, arresting, and substantial,…
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Poetry: My Smile Is a Woman’s Work by Cyndie Randall
Cyndie Randall’s “My Smile Is a Woman’s Work” pushes, with thin restraint, into a heated critique and commentary of gender expectations. Here, we’ve been invited into the dangerously erotic “shroud of the tongue” behind a smile, a woman’s grin, with…
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Poetry: How to turn the venom into amrit̪am by Ashwini Bhasi
Ashwini Bhasi has crafted a dangerous and gripping performance of erotic ars poetica. Every poem going forward for our team is now that “hump-nosed pit viper coiled on a dowel in the dark”—spilling poison, and ready to strike. How…
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Poetry: MONOLOGUE AT THE FRONT PEW OF AN OPERA by Nome Emeka Patrick
Nome Emeka Patrick is so good, we’ve published him twice this month! After reading this one, make sure to check out his 3rd Place winning poem from our Award for New Poets. MONOLOGUE AT THE FRONT PEW OF AN OPERA…
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The 2020 Award for New Poets, 1st Place Winner: South Side by Taylor Byas
We’re all very excited to share with you the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Award for New Poets, selected by the stellar emerging poets Jake Skeets, Camonghne Felix, and Paige Lewis. Please enjoy this stunner by the incredibly talented…
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Poetry: Brother by Steven Sanchez
Steven Sanchez’s new work pleads with love—for preservation, for family. “Brother” plays a melancholy song, mudcracked and wilting, but not one without hope, or without beauty. The poem seeks the place inside us where the cool water of sibling love…
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The 2020 Award for New Poets, 2nd Place Winner: ON THE THING I CANNOT EXPLAIN TO MY HUSBAND by Samantha Samakande
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2020 Award for New Poets, selected by the stellar emerging poets Jake Skeets, Camonghne Felix, and Paige Lewis. Today, we have second place winner by Samantha Samakande. Stay…
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Poetry: Frida Kahlo, The Little Deer, 1946 by Gabriella R. Tallmadge
Gabriella R. Tallmadge’s newest work is in conversation with the 1946 work by Frida Kahlo—a devastating piece of artistry. Today’s poem dives into those arrow-fetched wounds, “what wreckage,” Gabriella finds, “such freedom.” Frida Kahlo, The Little Deer, 1946
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