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!

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.

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.

Author Ann Wilberton spoke to us about her writing process and how she came home to poetry.

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

2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award First Runner-Up A Map in the Body of the Sky by Meredith Arena Selected by Lee Ann Roripaugh

Announcing our Finalists for the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!

Semi-finalists for the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press 1st Chapbook Award

"These Bodies" written by Maria McLeod; Bookmark 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.