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

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

"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.