Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of,  shares some insights into her creative process.

LBP intern, Erin Austin, talks about poetry as visual art, how rap music drives her focus, and using a book club to connect and recharge.

Olena Boryshpolets is a poet, writer, journalist, actress, and culture manager. Her chapbook-length poem, New Calypso, published by Lefty Blondie Press, is launching at City of Asylum on October 21, 2025.

Anna Febbraro is currently a Junior at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is working towards her degree in English with a concentration in writing and a minor in Philosophy. Anna will be an intern for Lefty Blondie Press for the fall 2025 semester.

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...

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

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

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

2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award winner: Reconstruction by Edith Friedman

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