Allegra Wilson’s chapbook, song & ruin, is the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award winner, selected by Stacey Waite. Wilson discusses how she pursued poetry after almost twenty years of inconsistent writing, and how she traces her poetic lineage to connect with who she is as a writer. She also gives us lots of great recommendations!

Congratulations to Allegra Wilson, whose chapbook manuscript, song & ruins, was selected by this year's judge, Stacey Waite, for the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!

Jennifer Blackledge's chapbook manuscript, 1-800-PACK-RAT, was selected as First Runner-Up by our 2025 judge, Stacey Waite Jennifer Blackledge is a poet who works for a global automotive company and lives just south of Detroit. She is the recipient of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize and her work has appeared in publications like J AMA, Rattle, I-70 Review, Kestrel, and SWWIM . You can find her work at www.jenniferblackledge.com . Submit your poems to the 2026 Left

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a chapbook to our contest! ​All tip jar donations support LBP's mission to promote the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary people.

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a chapbook to our contest! ​All tip jar donations support LBP's mission to promote the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary people.

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

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