Happy Spring! Celebrate the New Season With Our Fall 2019 Catalog

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Happy Spring! Celebrate the New Season With Our Fall 2019 Catalog[/trx_title] It is that time of year again when we announce our forthcoming books for Fall 2019. Our releases have already been announced in University of Chicago Press’s catalog and the books are available for pre-order on our website through University of [...]

Check out New Titles that Uplift the Soul and Explores the World We Live In

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Check out New Titles that Uplift the Soul and Explores the World We Live In[/trx_title] STRENGTH OF SOUL by Naomi Raquel Enright APR 2019 | PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 MEMOIR, SOCIAL SCIENCE | 166 pp. | 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1940939728 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939858 (ebk.) [COMING SOON] RANSOM STREET POEMS [...]

The Passing of Meena Alexander

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]The Passing of Meena Alexander (1951-2018)[/trx_title] You come to me a bird shedding gold feathers, each one a quill scraping my tympanum. You set a book to my ribs. Night after night I unclasp it at the mirror’s edge alphabets flicker and soar. Write in the light of all the languages you [...]

COMING IN MAY: A Debut Poetry Collection and a Historical Memoir

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]COMING IN MAY: A Debut Poetry Collection and a Historical Memoir [/trx_title] WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT POEMS BY CARLOS GABRIEL KELLY Introduction by Sean Frederick Forbes MAY 2019 | PAPERBACK $14.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 130 pp. | 6.5” x 6.5” ISBN: 978-1940939926 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939933 (ebk.) [COMING SOON] MOTHER OF [...]

Honoring Legendary Poet Michael Castro

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Honoring Legendary Poet Michael Castro (1945-2018)[/trx_title] I saw a fool dance up a hill Where ice gleamed all around While high above a full moon beamed Its pillar to the ground & in that moonbeam’s silver light That fool blew on his flute As a scraggly cur growled deep & grred & [...]

The Passing of Gil Fagiani and Ntozake Shange

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]The Passing of Gil Fagiani and Ntozake Shange[/trx_title] Two well-respected poets, Gil Fagiani (1945-2018) and Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) who contributed to 2Leaf Press recently passed away. While their work was aesthetically different, they shared one commonality, that is, to create meaningful humane stories that connect to readers. As they each leave behind [...]

Support 2Leaf Press

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Support 2Leaf Press and Become Part of the Family[/trx_title] Dear Friends, I wanted to create a press that was led by black/brown folks that was inclusive to all writers of a multicultural sensibility that also explores social justice, with a sensitive ear to women and writers of color. It has been [...]

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] As the work published by 2Leaf Press repeatedly and potently reminds, social justice and human rights are, more often than not, elusive goals and aspirational aims in a world marked by racism, sexism, homophobia, and nativism. Nevertheless, as anthologies such [...]

Sean Frederick Forbes

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Sean Frederick Forbes Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] What is the point of writing and supporting an independent press like 2Leaf Press when it seems like not much else matters? What is the point of writing and creating when so many are feeling marrow-deep despair? Perhaps despair is [...]

Abiodun Oyewole

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Abiodun Oyewole Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is a vital organ for blacks and Latinos to publish their poetry and stories. Unfortunately there are not many (if at all any) outlets that consistently publish our work. I am personally proud of the press, because Gabrielle David [...]
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