Poetry: mapmaking by Destiny Hemphill
Every body is a frontier of survival, and Destiny Hemphill’s poem lays the map bare. The speaker builds a life out of memories pinned to her body, to the palm of her hand and to her ribs and to her…
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On Publishing My Chapbook with Frontier— an Interview with Xiao Yue Shan
Winner of the 2018 Frontier Chapbook Contest, Xiao Yue Shan chats with us about the process of getting her work out into the most possible hands (digital and otherwise). Shan’s chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, won $2000 and publication…
May Deadlines: 9 Contests and Magazines With Deadlines This Month
New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships. Remember, too, acceptances and rejections are by-products of this journey—crafting your authentic art is the goal. And as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices.…
Poetry: Severity by Jessica Regione
Do love poems need love? Or just the anxiety of its proximity? Jessica Regione’s “Severity” works so well because that anxiety is delicately laid bare over a wintery afternoon. Modern romance: the unknowable ways we wish to describe the softness…
Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web: April 2019
Here’s a short selection of some of the best new poems hitting the web this April. These five poets, both established and emerging, deserve your attention and support—featuring work from: Amanda Gomez in [PANK], Dan Kraines in Adroit Journal, Sam…
Poetry: Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes by Brandon Melendez (with Interview)
This poem, from Brandon Melendez just-released debut from Write Bloody Publishing—Gold that Frames the Mirror—is an affirmation, a confession of acceptance. And while the speaker’s body ripens with a choice: to hate, or to forgive, so much depends on the swing of a…
Luther Hughes’ You Smell Like Outside: Hair Part 2
“You Smell Like Outside” is Luther Hughes’ wonderful column for Frontier where he seeks to answer the question every month: can poetry help us with our real, day-to-day life? For April, Lue is thinking about hair, and he’s got a…
One Month Left to Submit to the 2019 Chapbook Contest
We are very excited to announce that our 2019 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest is open for only one more month! Get in here! Jericho Brown is guest judging this year and will select the winning collection. The prize will be…
Poetry: 3 Poems by Carlina Duan
These three poems by Carlina Duan, demanding to be published together, intimately reveal family: “Portrait with Bok Choy in Pan” animates the kitchen, the cook’s tender art; “The Older Sister” aches with sibling affection; while “On Mackinac Island, I Cast…
Grants and Awards — A Primer
Making a living as a poet is often a patchwork of incomes and professional opportunities. Publications of collections rarely are enough to support a life, so non-profits, universities, and government organizations have fortunately stepped in—we want to focus today on…
