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…
Our last installment of finalist bring us three poets intimately engaging with language, but not always in the ways you’d expect. Starting with Chennelle Channer’s poem, “Talkin With My Hands These Ain’t Gang Signs,” we find ourselves thrust into Channer’s…
Part two of our installment of poems chosen as finalists brings poems from Nicole Santalucia, Kate DeLay, and Robin Wang. Another diverse group, Santalucia’s explorations with form take us immediately into the female body, shifting into and out of fantasy…
Our first installment of poems chosen as finalists includes Sighle Meehan’s eerie and echoing “half-doors, bolted and broken,” which creates a call and response that haunts readers well after they leave the poetic space. By contrast, Imani Cezanne’s “I found…
Join us in celebrating Marianne Kunkel, the winner of our 2024 Frontier OPEN. Read her poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I Rear-ended Him,” selected by our editors, below. This year, Kunkel’s poem stood out against a field…
The moment you’ve all been waiting for: we’re announcing the winners and finalists for the 2024 Frontier OPEN. We’re excited to welcome Marianne Kunkel into the Frontier community with her winning poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I…
