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…
“In Retrospect” is our 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 poems and…
In “Poem Wedged into the Brittlebush or Poem that Eats What Happened,” Anna Flores captures the unrelenting pain and absence that continue to haunt a family after loss. The poem reveals the slow deterioration of heart and mind as a…
In “Wheel of Fortune,” Emery’s command of form reveals how horrors can exist in isolated silos of devastation, weighing heavily on the mind — yet they blur at the edges, bleeding into one another until they become something incomprehensible, vast,…
In “To the man in my neighborhood who harassed me for ambulatory wheelchair use” Ariana Yeatts-Lonske earnestly challenges our understanding of what is “natural” by collapsing the boundaries between herself and the natural world. Simultaneously nature —high heat, rising rivers,…
In “ice cream for the apostles,” the poet elevates a simple post-church ritual into a sacred act through meticulous imagery and pacing. The tone oscillates between quiet devotion and understated yearning, transforming the ordinary into something like sacrament. “Pulau Bidong”…
