Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
The 2026 Frontier OPEN Winner and Finalists
We’re thrilled to congratulate Amanda Corbin, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2026 Frontier OPEN! Her poem “Parasitic Haibun,” was selected by our editorial team as the first place winner. Our reading team was over-joyed by the creativity, experimentation, and risk…
October 202 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines with Deadlines This Month
Have you been leafing through your poems, thinking some of them are ready to be published? Consider sending your poems out to these contests and publications. Several of them come with added bonuses for submitting your work, like a free…
Have you been leafing through your poems, thinking some of them are ready to be published? Consider sending your poems out to these contests and publications. Several of them come with added bonuses for submitting your work, like a free…
Poetry: “Origin Story” and “Hallelujah of a Godless Place” by Claire Maracle
The places we call home are not always the most welcoming, just as the places we go to get clean are among the dirtiest, as Claire Maracle says in these two poems. In their origin story, Maracle outlines a mother…
The places we call home are not always the most welcoming, just as the places we go to get clean are among the dirtiest, as Claire Maracle says in these two poems. In their origin story, Maracle outlines a mother…
In Retrospect: An Interview with Matthew Olzmann, Myths & Fables Guest Judge
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Matthew Olzmann, our guest judge for this year’s Myths & Fables Prize, which you can submit to here. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections,…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Matthew Olzmann, our guest judge for this year’s Myths & Fables Prize, which you can submit to here. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections,…
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 //
