In a Puddle I Saw
“Once, I was hipless. Boyhood / swung out in front of me glazed / with permission to do & not be stopped.”
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Community Feedback: Cynthia Manick reads Briana Grace Hammerstrom
Community Feedback is our recurring column that provides an opportunity for our audience to get some quick, free …
Trust Like the Color in the Special Collections Room
“(how much sense it made, how unending then) / the always unencumbered light”
Pocho Boy #1
By Alan Chazaro
“Pocho Boy Meets World” is a Latinx poetry column written by California poet, Alan Chazaro. Join him as he eats his share of quesadillas and uses broken Spanish in hopes of connecting more deeply with what it means to be a U.S. Latinx writer in Latin America.
In/Continent
“I used to be an unlit match, ready / to burn for any man, ready / for any hand to reach inside / and get my body back / to holy”
Deadlines: August & September
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: our Emerging Poet Prize, Tin House, Spilled Milk, BPJ, Black Warrior Review, Frontier’s latest contest, & more.
The 2019 Previously Published Poem Prize is CLOSING TODAY!
Last day to submit to our 2019 Emerging Poet Prize: $3000 for a single poem! Judged by Kim Addonizio.
Periodic #7
By Franny Choi
“Periodic” is a monthly column by poet Franny Choi. Every month, she writes a short column on the first day of her period—a check-in that might cover issues of gender, queerness, writing, health, and/or love.
ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF A PROPHYLACTIC GEMSTONE IN A POEM BY ELIZABETH BISHOP
By Len Krisak
“Booze flows. Sometimes, the verse aborts / Itself; sometimes, she can’t tell if it’s rye or / Gin that’s soaked her in its thwarting mist.”