Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
Poetry: “People Chattering, Machines Beeping” by Lachlan Maddock
Space is kind of polarizing. Some people are terrified by the void, the emptiness, the lack of oxygen, while others are fascinated, somehow intensely curious and always drawn to it…the mystery of the final Frontier. Don’t worry, it’s not our last…
Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge THIRD PLACE WINNER: “Ode to My Vitruvian Man” By Melissa McKinstry
It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry’s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge: Melissa McKinstry. Our editorial team selected McKinstry’s ‘Ode to My Vitruvian Man’ for its contemporary take on the love poem. We’ve all heard…
It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry’s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge: Melissa McKinstry. Our editorial team selected McKinstry’s ‘Ode to My Vitruvian Man’ for its contemporary take on the love poem. We’ve all heard…
The Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge Winners and Finalists
Our Ode to a Grecian Vacation Challenge invited poets to submit their odes—poems that praise or celebrate anything they felt was good, beautiful, or worthy of a little extra karmic glow. While the ode is a classic form, the submissions…
Our Ode to a Grecian Vacation Challenge invited poets to submit their odes—poems that praise or celebrate anything they felt was good, beautiful, or worthy of a little extra karmic glow. While the ode is a classic form, the submissions…
2024 Portrait Prize WINNER: “Exhibit in Reversal” by Lillian Emerick Valentine
It’s time to congratulate the WINNER of the Frontier Poetry 2024 Portrait Prize Contest, Lillian Emerick Valentine. Their gripping poem, “Exhibit in Reversal” was selected by our editorial team. “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up…
It’s time to congratulate the WINNER of the Frontier Poetry 2024 Portrait Prize Contest, Lillian Emerick Valentine. Their gripping poem, “Exhibit in Reversal” was selected by our editorial team. “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up…
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 //
