Our last installment of finalist bring us three poets intimately engaging with language, but not always in the ways you’d expect. Starting with Chennelle Channer’s poem, “Talkin With My Hands These Ain’t Gang Signs,” we find ourselves thrust into Channer’s…
Part two of our installment of poems chosen as finalists brings poems from Nicole Santalucia, Kate DeLay, and Robin Wang. Another diverse group, Santalucia’s explorations with form take us immediately into the female body, shifting into and out of fantasy…
Our first installment of poems chosen as finalists includes Sighle Meehan’s eerie and echoing “half-doors, bolted and broken,” which creates a call and response that haunts readers well after they leave the poetic space. By contrast, Imani Cezanne’s “I found…
Join us in celebrating Marianne Kunkel, the winner of our 2024 Frontier OPEN. Read her poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I Rear-ended Him,” selected by our editors, below. This year, Kunkel’s poem stood out against a field…
The moment you’ve all been waiting for: we’re announcing the winners and finalists for the 2024 Frontier OPEN. We’re excited to welcome Marianne Kunkel into the Frontier community with her winning poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I…
We’ve got another winning poem on deck! Kiyoko Reidy is the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Nature & Place Contest. Read their inventive & provocative poem, “Cocke County,” selected by judge Flower Conroy. Here we have a poem…
It’s time to congratulate the WINNER of the Frontier Poetry 2024 Nature & Place Contest, Zachary Scalzo. Their gripping poem, “Sometimes—there’s God—so quickly.” was selected by our judge, Flower Conroy. Here’s what Conroy has to say about the winning poem: …
It’s time to congratulate the Third Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 Nature & Place Contest, Rebekah A. Sankey. Read their arresting poem, selected by Flower Conroy, “The Pond, Early Spring.” Become enthralled with the earth as Sankey depicts nature…
It’s time to give a big congratulations to the winner of Frontier Poetry’s Nature & Place Prize, Zachary Scalzo. Their riveting poem, “Sometimes—there’s God—so quickly.,” was selected by our guest judge Flower Conroy. As always, the Frontier Poetry reading and…
It’s time to congratulate our First Place WINNER of Frontier Poetry‘s 2024 “(Not) In Love” Tanka Challenge, Diana Tokaji! Read the evocative, award-winning tanka “Physics Lesson: How a Girl Stores Power” below. This tanka was chosen for first place for…
