Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

November 2025 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines

With plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month, some of which feature interdisciplinary practice or guided support for your writing efforts, it’s prime time to share your work with the world. Don’t forget that acceptances and rejections are…

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2025 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part Two: Ariana Yeatts-Lonske, Louie Alexander, Carleen Liu

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,…

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2025 Frontier OPEN Finalists Part One: Francis Carpentier, Vuong Pham, and S Asher Sund

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”…

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Opportunity Cost

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IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING

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// by Frederick Speers //

Shadow Black

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How Often I Have Chosen Love

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selected by Joshua Roark

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