We are thrilled to present the 2023 Award for New Poets first place winner, Ira Goga, selected by guest judge torrin a. greathouse! Here’s what our judge had to say about the winning poem: “Reading ‘Twelve Thousand Pounds of Salt,’…
Congratulations to the gifted emerging poet Ira Goga, winner of the 2023 Award for New Poets! The team at Frontier Poetry is deeply grateful for everyone that submitted their work–we see you and we thank you. We’d also like to…
“When it rains, the water flows off the dead dirt / like the words of her father roll off her mother’s back.” Let’s celebrate our 2023 Roots & Roads 3rd Place Winner, Motherland by Edgar Morales! We are so excited…
“Seasons leave their marks: Leaves turn red, / figs stain the sidewalk, there are irises // or not, sour grass or not, but nothing is ever / not changing, not renewing.” Give it up for the 2023 Roots & Roads…
“Daughter after daughter was / offered for the harvest.” We’re thrilled to celebrate Meriem Evangeline, our 2023 Roots & Roads winner! Her poem, “ANCESTRY TOLD THROUGH PROPHECY,” has been awarded the first place prize of $3,000. Stay tuned as we…
Join us in celebrating this poem by MaKshya Tolbert, winner of the 2023 Frontier OPEN! We’re so delighted to award “Autobiography of not a horse” as the winner of our $5000 OPEN prize. Please stay tuned as we’re publishing the…
Congratulations to the winners of Frontier Poetry’s 2023 OPEN and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work. A BIG round of applause to MaKshya Tolbert, the winner…
Please join us in congratulating Kathryn Hargett-Hsu, winner of the 2023 Frontier Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. Hargett-Hsu’s manuscript was selected by Kemi Alabi and will be published in spring 2024. And congratulations to our outstanding finalists and longlisters! We’re confident we’ll…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Hurt and Healing Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that Andrés Cerpa has selected Eliza Gilbert as the winner of our $3000 award! In second place, we…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Global Poetry Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that the recipients of our $1000 prizes are Iqra Khan, Abigail Mengesha, Carlos A. Pittella, and Javier Sandoval. We’re…
