2025 Misfit Poems Prize THIRD PLACE WINNER: "[FLASHCARDS FOR WHEN I START FORGETTING]" by Kristina Kim
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Marianne Chan's pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Misfit Poems Prize: "[FLASHCARDS FOR WHEN I START FORGETTING]" by Kristina Kim.
Memory is patchwork. Flashes of emotional resonances that accent disparate details: a first kiss, the month of August, a plate of veggies. Kristina Kim captures her memory, or more so, her propensity for forgetting in the aptly misfit form of flashcards. She demonstrates the complicated beauty of authorship and truth one can exercise in distilling those flashes into a coherent emotionally honest whole.
Enjoy her poem below.
k.kim is a tashkent-born, brooklyn-raised writer and dancer. she has been a finalist for the korean american story’s ‘roar’ story slam, a featured poet at luya poetry’s open mic, and has published works with the foundationalist, porch water press, and more. she is a water-bearer, a first-time auntie and is always up for some good trouble.
