Submissions for the Broadside Series do not require a reading fee up until Nov. 15, 2025, although we do accept donations via Duosuma tip jar. After this date there is a mandatory fee of $5.00. We want everyone to have a fee free chance to get their poem read by our readers and editor's at LBP, while also assuring we can continue our work as an inclusive poetry press!

Poet Shaun R. Pankoski's Approach to Crafting Her Poetry and Beginning New Projects

I realized that I needed to give myself permission to prioritize the writing, to give it time and light and breath and to introduce new enrichments into its enclosure, as it were, through solo travel and other self-tending.

2025 LBP Editors' Choice Broadside Selection: "Must be able to Cackle" by Molly Prosser

Congratulations to our first runners-up of the Lefty Blondie Press Editors' Choice Broadside Contest whose poems were selected for...

2025 LBP Editors' Choice Broadside Series Semi-Finalists!

Maria McLeod, poet and writer, talks to LBP about living a writer’s life, where she turns for inspiration, and what poetry can do.

Unique gifts for the reader, poet, and booklover in your life! Support small businesses & independent presses while growing your collections

Printmaker Ryan Kaune has created handset letterpress designs for our Editors’ Choice series and shared her creative process.

"These Bodies" written by Maria McLeod; Bookmark design and letterpress printed by Ryan Kaune

The Salt Marsh House by Ann Wilberton Broadside design and letterpress printed by Ryan Kaune

Pittsburgh-based printmaker, Ryan Kaune, creates a letterpress version of Ann Wilberton's poem, A Salt Marsh House.