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Frontier Poetry wants your portrait poems—not just your portraits, but portraits of

everyone who matters to you, from your beloved pets to your best friend from high
school who you don’t talk to anymore, avoiding eye contact when you pass in the aisles
at the grocery store. Of course, we want to see your self-portraits, but we also want to

see how you depict your loved ones (and maybe even your enemies). Show us the joy,
and show us the pain. The candid shots you took with your Polaroid camera, the

yearbook photos, your older brother’s expired driver’s license you used as a fake ID in
college that sorta, kinda, looked like you. Memory, urgency, history, narrative,

specificity. We want to know The Mona Lisa’s name—we want to know everything
about her. Put it all in the poems. Get it on the page.

Chen Chen’s “Self-Portrait as So Much Potential,” is an excellent example of the way

that the self-portrait form can be used to explore the different aspects of the self…..

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