Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
Poetry: “Escape From the Filth Room” by Seth Wade
“Escape From the Filth Room” is both dreamlike and nightmarish, blurring images of consuming insects and slurping ooze with a vision of God. Particularly arresting moments come in the second and third stanzas’ turns, where the direct address calls readers…
February 2026 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines With Deadlines This Month
With plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month, many of which are prestigious poetry awards, it’s prime time to share your work with the world. Don’t forget that acceptances and rejections are by-products of your publishing journey—crafting your…
With plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month, many of which are prestigious poetry awards, it’s prime time to share your work with the world. Don’t forget that acceptances and rejections are by-products of your publishing journey—crafting your…
Poetry: “And the tulips didn’t bloom this year” by Caleb Wolfson-Seeley
Making the mundane suddenly surreal, Caleb Wolfson-Seeley links seemingly disparate moments, from a cat’s skeleton to burnt toast, in “And the tulips didn’t bloom this year.” Each stanza makes those links linguistically literal through the beginning “and” — a conjunction…
Making the mundane suddenly surreal, Caleb Wolfson-Seeley links seemingly disparate moments, from a cat’s skeleton to burnt toast, in “And the tulips didn’t bloom this year.” Each stanza makes those links linguistically literal through the beginning “and” — a conjunction…
2025 Epistolary Challenge FIRST PLACE WINNER: “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee” By Shradha Singh
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee“ by Shradha Singh What opens as a speculative letter to an unnamed man—”To My…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the FIRST PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee“ by Shradha Singh What opens as a speculative letter to an unnamed man—”To My…
Read Our Award Winning Chapbooks
Opportunity Cost
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING
read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
Shadow Black
read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner
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
// by Xiao Yue Shan //
