Established in 2016 by founding editors, Kim Winternheimer and Joshua Roark, the publication serves a platform for publishing and discovering new and emerging poets.
[1] Working with authors such as Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess and industry leaders such as Don Share of Poetry Magazine and Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press Frontier Poetry awards an "Award for New Poets" annually, which showcases and promotes emerging poets.
It also publishes poetry weekly by new writers online, as well as essays and commentary from guests including: Kwame Dawes of Prairie Schooner, John Skoyles of Ploughshares, Xandria Phillips[2] of Winter Tangerine, and Jessica Faust of The Southern Review.
[5] Frontier Poetry focuses on emerging writers with the aim to “lift people up who are just breaking into the community.”[6] yet occasionally publishes works from established poets as well.
[8] Aside from high visibility on Frontier Poetry, the chapbook is also part of a mailing to agents, with the aim of connecting new writers with representation via working with such established poets such as Jericho Brown.