2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge SECOND PLACE WINNER: “oh disguised lover” by Alice de Hubp
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate our pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge “oh disguised lover” by Alice de Hubp.
What’s incredible about Alice de Hubp’s work in this haiku is the complexity of tone. It’s sardonic yet still vulnerable. Passionate and cheeky yet controlled. Hubp’s craft creates a speaker who’s rightfully frustrated at being misled and imagines reclaiming their power in a moment of intimacy and unabashed pleasure.
Read her poem below.
oh disguised lover
oh disguised lover,
cuntsucker extraordinaire;
thighs squeeze out your eyes
Alice de Hubp
Alice de Hubp originally hails from Porto Alegre, Brazil, but she lives in Mexico City with her partner and cat. Alice’s fiction and poetry have been published in Juniper Zine, The Morgue Mag, Lunae Lit Review, the B’K, and Blue Crystal Lit’s Echoes of All Hallows’ Eve collection. Her work was longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction award and is published in its tenth anniversary anthology. When she’s not writing, she’s learning to figure skate or make cocktails. Find her full list of published work at alicedehubp.carrd.co.
