Frontier Poetry — Eyes on 2018
Another trip around the sun, another opportunity to do something new: 2018 is going to be a good year, full of assertive hope and reckless joy—like a puppy with a shotgun. What are we doing in 2018 at Frontier?…
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Frontier Poetry — Year of Poems 2017
Reflection, meditation, screaming into pillows at Grandma’s house: the holidays can both be hard and soft and everything in between. And into that, gently, we’d like to remind you of all the beautiful, unbelievable, joyful, striking poems we have had…
The Award for New Poets — Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of Frontier Poetry’s Award for New Poets and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. We saw an incredible number of submissions and the quality of writing was extraordinary. Thank you, also, for your patience while…
2017 Award for New Poets Shortlist
Congratulations to the twenty-five poets chosen for our 2017 Award for New Poets shortlist! The following poems were sent to Tyehimba Jess for final selection and the winners will be announced on or before January 1, 2018. Thank you again…
Thank You to All of Our Contest Submitters!
Thank you, poets. Our hearts are bursting from the response to our Frontier OPEN contest—cannot wait to give one special poet the $5000 check! We take our responsibility with your words very seriously, and our aim is to always treat…
Submission to Frontier OPEN Ends on Thursday, November 30
We are very excited to announce that our annual Frontier OPEN is open for only a short time longer! For this contest, we are accepting submissions from all poets, and our diverse team of readers will be reading blind. We…
New Voices: Our Beating Heart
Our New Voices category is the beating heart of Frontier. It’s the essence of our mission: to uplift, validate, support and energize emerging poets. It will always be open. It will always be free. We will always pay our poets.…
Submit to Our Award for New Poets!
Only 4 days left to submit! // $2000 Prize + Publication // Judged by Tyehimba Jess, 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner // Top 15 Finalists Recognized // Submit 1-3 Poems // Reading Fee: $20 submit here
New Voices Recap: Summer 2017
This summer was full of poets speaking truth to power, love to bodies, grace to the ashamed. With pride, we’ve put together a list of some of our New Voices published over the last few months on Frontier. From Andrés Cerpa…
Award for New Poets is Open for Submissions!
We are so excited to announce that our 2017 Poetry Award for emerging poets is now accepting submissions! Tyehimba Jess will judge the contest $2000 Award Under represented voices encouraged to submit For guidelines and submission info click here.
