Frontier Poetry

Announcing the 2026 Debut Chapbook Prize! Guest judge Patricia Smith will select one winner, who will receive a $2,000 prize and publication, including a free downloadable digital chapbook on our website and 50 physical author copies. Learn more: loom.ly/aQ9n3PE

We've got another New Voices for you this Friday! Check out "Inevitabilities, and" by Christina Connerton, which is a master class in the power of a title to give readers the keys to unlock a poem's insights. Read it here: buff.ly/1BUyS6N #newvoices #poetry

Happy Friday! We've got another New Voices poem for you. Check out Palavi Ahuja's "Parle-G," which is about far more than "a sleeve of Parle-G biscuits," here: buff.ly/8m4hyQb #newvoices #poetry

We've got another New Voices for you this Friday! One particular area of genius in Ridwan Fasasi's poem "Millenials after the banishment" resides in its details — in particular, line breaks and ends of lines. We hope you enjoy reading it. #newvoices #poetry

It's New Voices Friday! This week, check out "triptych for hypothetical deceased evil mother." Here, Lindsay Li takes the art form of a picture carved on three panels hinged together and applies it to written work. #newvoices #poetry

For this ten-day challenge, Frontier seeks poetry written as Haiku! We’re looking for poetry that explores the people, places, and things you have a love-hate relationship with. The first-place winner will receive $500 + publication! 🥀✍️ Learn more: frontier.submittable.com/submit/345635/…

It's Friday, which means we've got a New Voices poem for you! This week, check out "Home as a Slaughterhouse" by Blessing Omeiza Ojo, which contains within it both violence — "slaughter" — and embrace — "house." #newvoices #poetry

We've got another unforgettable New Voices poem for you. This week, check out "A flowchart for the anxious insomniac." Chau Anh Nguyen uses an experimental form in this poem to help readers sit with the language of it, which is fractured yet interwoven. #newvoices #poetry

We're excited to share another New Voices poem this Friday! Check out Seth Wade's "Escape from the Filth Room." Wade captures just how bizarre it can feel to envision getting out of rooms in which we find ourselves ensnared for weeks. #newvoices #poetry

It's Friday, which means we've got another New Voices poem! 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." #newvoices #poetry

In the dawn of the new year, Frontier Poetry is excited to announce the 2026 Hurt & Healing Prize! Guest judge Gbenga Adesina will select three winners. The first-place winner will receive $3,000 and publication. Learn more: frontierpoetry.com/2026-hurt-heal…

We are proud to announce the WINNER of our Epistolary Challenge: Shradha Singh! This poem assembles a life from crumbs: hidden photographs, a courtroom outburst, a last love letter read aloud years later. All of which accumulate to a deeply moving end. #poetry #epistolary

Congratulations to the second place winner of our Epistolary Challenge! Christian Collier's poem "Dear Sarah" becomes a meditation on sexual becoming, silence, and the way first loves linger—caroling—long after the truth has learned how to speak. #poetry #epistolary

Congratulations to the third place winner of our Epistolary Challenge! Check out Sullivan Summer's "NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST." Tender, political, and quietly urgent, the poem turns a building's bulletin board into a stage for grief and hope. #poetry #epistolary

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A heartfelt thank you to all poets who shared their explorations of family and home with us. Regardless of acceptance or decline, you will hear back from us. If you have any questions about your submission, please feel welcome to email us at contact@frontierpoetry.com!

Family shapes us in ways that can be both tender and tumultuous. Today is your last chance to show us how! Submit up to three poems (five pages) per submission. Deadline: December 14, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Submit your work today: frontierpoetry.com/2025-family-ho…

It's New Voices Friday! This week, check out Ziyuan Tang's poignant poem "To My Very Catholic Father." Most poems featuring ars poetica can stray toward the pedantic, or else they're academic, self-referential, and stodgy, but Tang's is none of the above. #newvoices #poetry

Closing soon: Our 2025 Family & Home Prize! Guest Judge Sean Hill will select the winning poems. First-place will receive $3,000 + publication. We ask for no more than 3 poems (5 pages) per submission. Deadline: December 14, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific frontierpoetry.com/2025-family-ho…

We're proud to announce the winner of our Myths & Fables Contest: Kimberly Ramos! "The Asian Cowgirl of this poem rides the bullets aimed at her and her kind and thus inaugurates a new mythology," says Guest Judge Jennifer Chang. Congrats, Kimberly! #poetry #mythsandfables