Lefty Blondie Press proudly presents our first publication of 2025:
Words + Music + Movement
Join LBP and the Madwomen in the Attic on Saturday, February 1, 2025 as we celebrate the publication with the transformative nature of words, music, movement, and fellowship.
“In her unroiling motion of lyrics, narrative-riffs, and translation, Langstroth pushes forth her whirling tribute to Jean Valentine. The result is gorgeous, an eerie un-ghosting, a soul-transforming dance.” — Judith Vollmer author of The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems
Joining Langstroth in performance will be Jeff Berman, Veronica Corpuz, Veronica Cruz, Madame Christiane Dolores, and City of Asylum writers Olena Boryshpolets, Jorge Olivera Castillo, and Rania Mamoun.

Saturday,
February 1, 2025
2:00 p.m. EST
Free and open to the public.
Free parking.
Light refreshments available.
Books available for purchase.
NOTE: To ensure everyone enjoys the experience, this performance is for adults only.
About Gail Langstroth:
Raised under the Big Skies of Montana, Gail Langstroth lived thirty-eight years in Europe. She is a tri-lingual poet, lecturer, translator, and international eurythmy performer. Firegarden / jardín-de-fuego, Get Fresh Books (2020), is her first full-length collection of poetry. Langstroth is honored to be able to celebrate Jean Valentine with her bilingual Ghost Friends - in Praise of Jean Valentine. When not on the road, Gail makes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania her home. www.wordmoves.com.
About Jean Valentine:
"Jean Valentine was born in Chicago and earned her BA from Radcliffe College. Her first book of poems, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1965. She authored of over a dozen collections of poetry, including The River at Wolf (1992); Little Boat (2007); Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, which won the National Book Award; Break the Glass (2010), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Shirt in Heaven (2015).
Her lyric poems delve into dream lives with glimpses of the personal and political. In the New York Times Book Review, David Kalstone said of her work, 'Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of ... short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings.' Adrienne Rich wrote of Valentine’s work, 'This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way.'" Read more at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-valentine
This event is sponsored by Lefty Blondie Press and the Madwomen in the Attic. For further information, contact madwomen@carlow.edu or leftyblondiepress@gmail.com.
Submit your work to the Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!
Accepting chapbook manuscripts from JANUARY 1 - MARCH 31
We welcome poetry chapbook manuscripts written by those who:
self-identify as woman or non-binary individual
40+ years old
writing in English, currently living in the U.S
have yet to publish a poetry chapbook, poetry collection, or full-length poetry book before September 30 of contest year
Submission Guidelines
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