Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 //
