One particular area of genius in Ridwan Fasasi’s poem “Millenials 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” —…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Sean Hill, the Guest Judge of our poetry prize which will have winners announced this month. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out…
What better way to navigate anxiety or insomnia, or a combination of both, than a flowchart? We find the experimental form of this poem forces us to sit with the language of it, which is fractured yet interwoven. Two tributaries…
“Escape From the Filth Room” is both dreamlike and nightmarish, blurring images of consuming insects and slurping ooze with a vision of God. Particularly arresting moments come in the second and third stanzas’ turns, where the direct address calls readers…
Making the mundane suddenly surreal, Caleb Wolfson-Seeley links seemingly disparate moments, from a cat’s skeleton to burnt toast, in “And the tulips didn’t bloom this year.” Each stanza makes those links linguistically literal through the beginning “and” — a conjunction…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee“ by Shradha Singh What opens as a speculative letter to an unnamed man—”To My…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “Dear Sarah“ by Christian Collier. What begins as a private address—”Dear Sarah”—unfolds into a reckoning with a first intimacy…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST“ by Sullivan Summer. What starts as an ordinary lost-and-found notice—one missing Scrabble tile, a letter…
