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…
It’s time to congratulate the WINNER of the Frontier Poetry 2024 Portrait Prize Contest, Lillian Emerick Valentine. Their gripping poem, “Exhibit in Reversal” was selected by our editorial team. “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up…
We’ve got another winning poem on deck! Reed Turchi is the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Portrait Prize Contest. Read their nonjudgemental & affecting poem, “Jared,” selected by our team. Here we have a piece that assumes nothing…
It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Portrait Prize Contest, Allison Norwood. Read their affectionately commemorative poem, selected by our editorial team, “the one where I watch you walk back into the room.” Watch as…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Lillian Emerick Valentine, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s Portrait Prize! Their powerful and evocative poem, “Exhibit in Reversal,” was selected by our editors for its striking social commentary and emotional depth. As always, the Frontier Poetry…
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We made a list, we checked it twice. It was the 2024 Debut Chapbook Contest. So we checked it thrice. There were some difficult decisions, and some amazing manuscripts. Our incredible team…
Warm congratulations to the winner of our Hermit Crab Challenge, Joshua Lavender! “ni·loo (a personal definition)” caught our attention for its unique take on one of the most tried-and-true hermit crab forms, the dictionary entry. While this is a very…
Many thanks and congrats to Eliza Gilbert, second place winner of our Hermit Crab Challenge! “Mad Lib,” has the sweet spot balance of irony and emotion, existing in a place where humor and vulnerability meet. The poem finds itself in…
Join us in celebrating our third place winner of the Hermit Crab Challenge! Steven C. Wright’s “The Timesick Poet.” Wright’s poem immediately caught our eye as the irreverent mixture of a lighthearted form hijacked to address the very real and…
Our Hermit Crab 10 Day challenge this fall invited submitters to try out a new technique, and poets were writing and submitting “hermit crab,” poems, which are poems that borrow form found in other sources—a poem built from a grocery…
