A collection of love poems for those who don't always feel seen. T. De Los Reyes’s collection AND YET HELD is for people who live on the margins, who are creating their own path in the world where merely existing becomes an impossibility, and where...
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A collection of poems that details the breathlessness of loss. A symbol. A separator. A bridge. A wordlessness. ASTERISK is Jenny George’s aching document of loss and what comes after. Poetry. Family & Relationships. LGBTQIA+ Studies.
Winner of the 2022 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Ethan Chua’s SKY LADDERS – a collection of multilingual poems and translations dedicated to those who passed away in the tragic anti-Asian shootings in Atlanta, 2021 - is an extended eulogy, a jou...
A bold debut collection of poems that challenge domesticity with an unstoppable charm. Jennifer Funk’s debut collection, FANTASY OF LOVING THE FANTASY, is a sensuous investigation of the failings and thrills of trying to sate the insatiable. With s...
In grief, language eludes, shifts, breaks down, betrays. FIGMENT is an attempt to articulate the inarticulable, to glean meaning from scraps of language, and to see clearly that which exists just out of view. Through fragments and the abecedarian f...
THICK CITY is an attempt at reconciliation of need and desire, the cyclical characters adjacent and sutured together create a constellation of a cityscape caught in its own fists. In the space of innovative prose, Thick City focuses on language and ...
After the loss of her father, Emily Pittinos seeks solace on the road, but as she travels from Michigan to California and back again, she has to reckon with burdens everyone must bear—grief and guilt, resolution and closure, acceptance. In four poig...
Editors' Selection from the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. For a young Ghanaian girl who traveled from the hot winds of Accra to the pulsating rhythms of the Bronx, belonging is elusive. Torn between her desires to be West African and Americ...
In a love letter to two ancestors, Caroline M. Mar reckons with the shapes our bodies take in water and the shapes our bodies take in memory. By the icy waters where drowned Chinese railroad workers lay to rest, DREAM OF THE LAKE questions how our f...
Editors' Selection from the Frost Place Chapbook Competition.Christian J. Collier's poems of witness have the kind of keen insight that slices to the heart of the subject. THE GLEAMING OF THE BLADE examines Black masculinity in the contemporary Amer...
Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. Short Stories. Asian American Studies. Asian Studies. A grieving mother clutching a dead bird, a jealous lover watching his house burn to the ground, a vision of God in a chicken coop. Through twelve...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. CONNOTARY crosses through the porous borders of nation-states, cultures, selves, and languages. As an account of migration ...
With attention to the histories that make and sustain a family—its generations, its roots in certain soils—WHAT PECAN LIGHT exhumes a family's long entwinements in the South and whiteness. Excavating the economic, agricultural, and military roots of...
Poetry. AMERICAN CAVEWALL SONNETS attempts to record the aftermath of a tragedy, to build an archive against a backdrop of erasure. The various unnamed speakers of these sonnets—the anonymous I’s, the anonymous eyes—grapple with fears that the thing...
Poetry. In a news cycle where horrors have become the mundane, it's easy to forget the fantastic things: an incident where meat falls from the sky, or a chicken who lives months past its own beheading. So SPINNING THE VAST FANTASTIC zeroes in on spe...