Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
2025 Misfit Poems Prize SECOND PLACE WINNER: “Fragments” By Fatema Alzari
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…
2025 Misfit Poems Prize THIRD PLACE WINNER: “[FLASHCARDS FOR WHEN I START FORGETTING]” By Kristina Kim
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:…
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:…
In Retrospect: An Interview with Marianne Chan, Guest Judge for 2025 Misfits Prize
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…
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…
Poetry: “Old Man (IN JOHANNESBURG)” by Rory Kilalea
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…
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…
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Opportunity Cost
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selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING
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selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
Shadow Black
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selected by Jericho Brown
// by Naima Tokunow //
How Often I Have Chosen Love
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Joshua Roark
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