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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…
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 SECOND PLACE WINNER: “Dear Sarah” By Christian Collier
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 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…
2025 Epistolary Challenge THIRD PLACE WINNER: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST” By Sullivan Summer
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…
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…
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Opportunity Cost
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
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
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 //
