Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

2024 Portrait Prize Second Place Winner: “Jared” by Reed Turchi

We’ve got another winning poem on deck! Reed Turchi is the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Portrait Prize Contest. Read their nonjudgemental & affecting poem, “Jared,” selected by our team.  Here we have a piece that assumes nothing…

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2024 Portrait Prize Third Place Winner: “the one where I watch you walk back into the room” By Allison Norwood

It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Portrait Prize Contest, Allison Norwood. Read their affectionately commemorative poem, selected by our editorial team, “the one where I watch you walk back into the room.”  Watch as…

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Poetry: “The Onion Ghost” by Portia Yu

Portia Yu’s “The Onion Ghost” engages with a number of the most well-known philosophical concepts—the repetition seems to reference Nietzsche’s eternal return, and the mention of being “viewed from any angle” seems referential of Foucault’s panopticon. The idea of layers…

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Read Our Award Winning Chapbooks

Opportunity Cost

read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Kazim Ali

// by Abby Johnson //

IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING

read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Carl Phillips

// by Frederick Speers //

Shadow Black

read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Jericho Brown

// by Naima Tokunow //

How Often I Have Chosen Love

read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner

selected by Joshua Roark

// by Xiao Yue Shan //

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