How do we elegize even the smallest of creatures? How do we respond to the “natural order” of their dying? In her poem, Iris Lee gives careful consideration to a box of silkworms; the images and sensations of the speaker’s…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Stephen Morrow, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge! His poem “At the Theatre,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial Team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were captured…
Dalapo Tajudeen’s poem “Still Life” is like a condensed drop of gold. Its minimalism amplifies its power. It starts in a seemingly trivial moment of the speaker asking their father how he wants his coffee. His stillness quickly spirals the…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Chrysanthemum (Chris) Watkins, whose poem “Prayer (II)” we published in 2024. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. We sought…
There are many ways to picture God, as our world’s numerous religions and spiritual practices prove, and Maren Logan’s poem explores several unconventional depictions. God begins “as the boy in geometry everyone has a crush on,” including the speaker and…
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…
