Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “Dear Sarah“ by Christian Collier. What begins as a private address—Dear Sarah—unfolds into a reckoning with a first intimacy…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST“ by Sullivan Summer. What starts as an ordinary lost-and-found notice—one missing Scrabble tile, a letter…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Shradha Singh, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Epistolary Challenge! Her poem “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were moved by…
We’re so thrilled to congratulate Kimberly Ramos on being the first place winner for the 2025 Myths & Fables Prize with their poem “Asian Cowgirl Is Doomed From the Start.” Read below to discover what guest judge Jennifer Chang had to…
A huge congratulations to Cheyenne Mann whose poem “God is Narcoleptic Too,” was selected by Jennifer Chang as the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Myths & Fables Prize competition. Cheyenne Mann’s God Is Narcoleptic Too imagines a universe tended…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate Jennifer Chang’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Myths & Fables Prize: “When My Preschoolers Ask Me Why I Don’t Have Kids” by Allison Norwood. Children ask questions with a kind…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Kimberly Ramos, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Myths & Fables Prize! Her poem “Asian Cowgirl is Doomed from the Start,” was selected by Jennifer Chang as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were…
In “Poem Wedged into the Brittlebush or Poem that Eats What Happened,” Anna Flores captures the unrelenting pain and absence that continue to haunt a family after loss. The poem reveals the slow deterioration of heart and mind as a…
In “Wheel of Fortune,” Emery’s command of form reveals how horrors can exist in isolated silos of devastation, weighing heavily on the mind — yet they blur at the edges, bleeding into one another until they become something incomprehensible, vast,…
In “To the man in my neighborhood who harassed me for ambulatory wheelchair use” Ariana Yeatts-Lonske earnestly challenges our understanding of what is “natural” by collapsing the boundaries between herself and the natural world. Simultaneously nature —high heat, rising rivers,…
