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.

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!

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.

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!

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.