A huge congratulations to Maxwell Putnam whose poem “LETTER TO YOU AS THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF GERDA TARO” was selected by Robert Wood Lynn as the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize competition. Maxwell Putnam’s photographic…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Robert Wood Lynn’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize: “SEER” by Akhim Yuseff Cabey. “Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause [anyone] to treat you as…
“Be” by Sarah Isbell is a notable for its mastery of the often forgotten art of rhyme scheme in poetry. Their lyricism is both innovative and pensive. Balancing craft with a deeply personal reflection on the “many things” humans ponder…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Taryn FitzGerald, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize! Their poem “UPON RECEIVING THE NEWS LOOKING OUT THE KITCHEN WINDOW,” was selected by our guest judge Robert Wood Lynn as the first place…
Arihant Jain’s “Borrowed” is remarkable for its technical shifts and innovations with language—some memorable moments include “her accent bleeds / jasmine” and “the taste / of monsoon” but Jain is much more than just a powerful and noteworthy linguistic stylist.…
It’s time to congratulate the First Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Tori Gosse. Read their affectionately commemorative poem, selected by our editorial team, “Ode to the Moth That Drinks the Tears of Sleeping Birds.” …
It’s time to congratulate the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Rae Norman. Read their tender love poem, selected by our editorial team, “ode to the convex.” In Norman’s poem, this is her world…
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…
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…
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…
