The moment is finally here! We’ve read innumerable manuscripts, combed through dozens of individual poems, cried, laughed, agonized, and celebrated—all while adhering to our temporary pledge of sworn secrecy—to bring you the winner of the 2026 Debut Chapbook Prize. The…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Gbenga Adesina’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2026 Hurt & Healing Prize “Echo-cardiogram” by Margarita Cruz “This poem is an incantation that wrestles death to the ground. It’s a ferocious dance…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Gbenga Adesina’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2026 Hurt & Healing Prize “Sometime After Your Suicide, I Find You in the Apocalypse” by Edison Angelbello What’s incredible about Angelbello’s work in…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2026 Hurt & Healing Prize— Maryam Daftari with her poem “The Geography of the Unfinished Room” Maryam Daftari’s poem is exceptional for the way it fuses the language…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Margarita Cruz, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2026 Hurt & Healing Prize! Her poem “Echo-cardiogram,” was selected by Gbenga Adesina as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were truly taken and appreciative of the…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate our team’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge “At the Theatre” by Stephen Morrow. Stephen Morrow’s poem encapsulates the spirit of the (Not) in Love haiku…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate our pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge “oh disguised lover” by Alice de Hubp. What’s incredible about Alice de Hubp’s work in this haiku is the…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2026 (Not) in Love Haiku Challenge— Benjamin Burns’ with his poem “He was coked out of…” Benjamin Burns’s haiku is exceptional for the way it implies story, complex…
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…
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…
