Ziyuan Tang attempts some pretty ambitious maneuvers in “To My Very Catholic Father.” Most poems about poems can stray toward the pedantic or else they’re academic, self-referential, and stodgy, but Tang is neither; the meticulous repetition and slick wordplay sometimes…
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…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From her early writing to her most recent collection,…
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…
We have a new “In Retrospect” interview with poet D.M. Aderibigbe for our series which asks renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From his early writing to his most recent collection,…
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…
Robison’s “Meadow, Early Dark” unfolds the way all great poems do, reminiscent of poems like Jackson Holbert’s “Unsent Letter to Jakob,” or much of Good Grief, The Ground by Margaret Ray. There’s a billowing outward, the way you would shake out a…
There’s a intriguing and appealing rhythm to the word association that guides Seif-Eldeine’s “Subconscious Sonnet 113.” Sometimes the shifts make sense and the direct rhyme is clear, with the kind of connection that can instantly appear in your head. The…
