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:…
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…
It’s time to congratulate Taryn FitzGerald who was selected by Robert Wood Lynn as the First Place Winner of the 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize with her poem “UPON RECEIVING THE NEWS LOOKING OUT THE KITCHEN WINDOW.” Taryn FitzGerald’s poem…
A huge congratulations to Maxwell Putnam whose poem “LETTER TO YOU AS THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF GERDA TARO” was selected by Robert Wood Lynn as the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize competition. Maxwell Putnam’s photographic…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Robert Wood Lynn’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize: “SEER” by Akhim Yuseff Cabey. “Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause [anyone] to treat you as…
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…
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…
