Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poem takes many surprising directions, and just when you expect them to go left, they go right. They are unpredictable, and it’s almost impossible to understand how they find the associations they do. It’s clear that there…
Welcome to “In Retrospect,” our interview series which asks renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From their early writing to their most recent collection, we’re looking to hear about core poems…
How to Write a Poetry Cover Letter Step One: Introductions Begin your cover letter by addressing the appropriate editor—either the poetry editor by name or the editorial team as a whole. While it’s not mandatory to include specific names, doing…
It’s time to congratulate JH Grimes who was selected by Marianne Chan as the First Place Winner of the 2025 Misfit Poems Prize with their poem “Appalachian Conjure.” See what Marianne Chan had to say about her first place pick…
A huge congratulations to Fatema Alzari whose poem “Fragments” was selected by Marianne Chan as the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Misfit Poems Prize competition. Writing about absence often becomes an act of curation — selecting and stitching together…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Marianne Chan’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Misfit Poems Prize: “[FLASHCARDS FOR WHEN I START FORGETTING]” by Kristina Kim. Memory is patchwork. Flashes of emotional resonances that accent disparate details:…
Welcome to “In Retrospect,” a new interview series which asks renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From their early writing to their most recent collection, we’re looking to hear about core…
There’s a sensuous quality to Rory Kilalea’s poem, “Old Man (In Johannesburg)” and it evokes some of the descriptions of Asia found in Jenny Xie’s Eye Level. Kilalea is minimal in his descriptors but “breathing sex and / neon” has the simple…
We’re thrilled to congratulate JH Grimes, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Misfit Poems Prize! Their poem “Appalachian Conjure,” was selected by our guest judge Marianne Chan as the first place winner. The Frontier Poetry reading and editorial team were…
As we inch toward the next season, it’s as good a time as any to make strides toward sharing your work. Consider sending your poems out to these contests and publications. Some of them might land you with a whole…
