Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

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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The 2024 Portrait Prize Winners & Finalists!

It’s time to give a big congratulations to the winner of Frontier Poetry’s Portrait Prize,  Lillian Emerick Valentine. Their riveting poem, “Exhibit in Reversal,” was selected by our Frontier‘s editors. As always, the Frontier Poetry reading and editorial team was…

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Poetry: “My Main Squeeze” by Jeremy Cantor

Jeremy Cantor’s poem, “My Main Squeeze,” was originally submitted for our Hermit Crab Challenge, and although it didn’t end up taking home the prize, the poem was so memorable we at Frontier just couldn’t let it go. Irreverent and playful,…

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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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