Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
2025 Myths & Fables Prize THIRD PLACE WINNER: “When My Preschoolers Ask Me Why I Don’t Have Kids” By Allison Norwood
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…
The 2025 Myths & Fables Winner and Finalists
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…
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…
December 2025 Deadlines: 10 Contests and Magazines
There are plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month. Those who like to experiment and bend the edges of poetry, those looking to publish a chapbook, and our youngest emerging poets all have some great options below. Remember,…
There are plenty of opportunities to submit your work this month. Those who like to experiment and bend the edges of poetry, those looking to publish a chapbook, and our youngest emerging poets all have some great options below. Remember,…
Poetry: “Meadow, Early Dark” by Sam Robison
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…
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…
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 //
