We’re thrilled to congratulate Taryn FitzGerald, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize! Their poem “UPON RECEIVING THE NEWS LOOKING OUT THE KITCHEN WINDOW,” was selected by our guest judge Robert Wood Lynn as the first place…
Arihant Jain’s “Borrowed” is remarkable for its technical shifts and innovations with language—some memorable moments include “her accent bleeds / jasmine” and “the taste / of monsoon” but Jain is much more than just a powerful and noteworthy linguistic stylist.…
It’s time to congratulate the First Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Tori Gosse. Read their affectionately commemorative poem, selected by our editorial team, “Ode to the Moth That Drinks the Tears of Sleeping Birds.” …
It’s time to congratulate the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Rae Norman. Read their tender love poem, selected by our editorial team, “ode to the convex.” In Norman’s poem, this is her world…
It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry’s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge: Melissa McKinstry. Our editorial team selected McKinstry’s ‘Ode to My Vitruvian Man’ for its contemporary take on the love poem. We’ve all heard…
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…
Space is kind of polarizing. Some people are terrified by the void, the emptiness, the lack of oxygen, while others are fascinated, somehow intensely curious and always drawn to it…the mystery of the final Frontier. Don’t worry, it’s not our last…
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 not immediately clear what the inversion in Benjamin Renne’s poem is referring to, but as the poem sparks from line to line with its remarkable energy, it becomes impossible to ignore the clear animosity Renne’s speaker seems to hold…
