In “Parasitic Haibun” by Amanda Nicole Corbin, they invoke apocalyptic language to create a complex depiction of love, infidelity, desire, and secrecy. The speaker engages in “greedy-freedom.” Amidst the murderous heat, growling air, and blood-letting mosquitos, the lovers in the…
In “Living Room Lessons,” Nirvana Shahriar moves through a smoke-hazed, searching consciousness where family, memory, and politics begin to blur into one another. Cigarette ash, cardamom tea, a grandmother’s body, a father’s music, and a photograph of Paul McCartney in…
In “Carol says she’ll name a lizard after me and feed him superworms,” the speaker moves through questions of form, faith, memory, and selfhood, becoming increasingly unsure where one ends and the other begins. “To name is to become,” they…
In “Offshore, I Don’t Kiss Anybody,” Tong collapses the space between the swirling vapor world of the fish pond and her pondering. To kiss or to not kiss this fishboy. The subject circles the answer until finally coming to a…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Amanda Nicole Corbin, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2026 Frontier OPEN! Her poem “Parasitic Haibun,” was selected by our editorial team as the first place winner. Our reading team was over-joyed by the creativity, experimentation, and…
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…
