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!

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.

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...

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

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

"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.

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Lefty Blondie Press is an independent publisher that promotes the poetry of woman-identifying and non-binary poets. What a privilege this...