Because I don’t know what I know until I write it down. I don’t know what I feel until I write it. I can’t make sense of my world until I do

Kelley Beeson shares why she writes and how approaching poetry as “play” allows her to “sneak up on herself."

Edith Friedman is the author of Reconstruction, winner of the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award. As our 2025 contest opens, Frie

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Lefty Blondie Press launches Reconstruction by Edith Friedman, winner of the 2024 First Chapbook Award, selected by Lee Ann Roripaugh