Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “한 han“ by Laura Kim.  Kim’s poem renders loneliness as absence—as rituals of longing, like the lighting of matches;…

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This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Gbenga Adesina, the Guest Judge of our poetry prize which is open for submissions until March 8th. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping…

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Christina Connerton’s poem is a master class in the power of a title to give readers the keys to unlock a poem’s insights. By prescribing (quite literally “writing before”) meaning to the parts of the poem before each comma plus…

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