Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize “THIS COUNTRY CALLED LIFE“ by Bertha Crombet Crombet’s poem captures the persistent, daily, and quiet anxiety attached to one’s…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Sean Hill’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Family & Home Prize: “all the men i love carry pocketknives“ by Emily Clarke. “do you know anything about manhood?”—a question that haunts…
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;…
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…
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…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Bertha Crombet, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Family & Home Prize! Her poem “THIS COUNTRY CALLED LIFE,” was selected by Sean Hill as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were enrapt by the…
Palavi Ahuja’s poem is about far more than “a sleeve of Parle-G biscuits,” although it’s a thoroughly intriguing place to begin the careful weaving the poem accomplishes. The poem’s strands include the watching and relaying the narrative of the movie…
One particular area of genius in Ridwan Fasasi’s poem “Millennials after the banishment” resides in its details — in particular, line breaks and ends of lines. The ending words receive emphasis and, when read in succession, even have a coherence…
Here, Lindsay Li takes the art form of a picture carved on three panels hinged together and applies it to written work. The three condensed, columnar moments hinge upon the hypothetical death of the speaker’s “evil mother.” In the first,…
Home finds itself to be a place of both discord and potential in Blessing Omeiza Ojo’s poem, with the poem’s narrative pieces lying locked within the repetition of the word “slaughterhouse.” The word itself carries both violence — “slaughter” —…
