EDWARD NAWOTKA || PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Today’s feature story “Going Small to Make it Big” looks at some of the advantages of small press publishing, which can include increased personal attention, more flexible program, higher priority for marketing within the house, and the ability to have more direct influence on the publishing process. Yet, there are […]
FRANCINE FIALKOFF || LIBRARY JOURNAL My favorite comment on the merger of Penguin and Random House was in an Op Ed in the New York Times. “[M]aybe Random Penguin, as a few wags have suggested, would have been a more apt name.” (The name was widely tweeted and depicted as well.) I can see the image […]
POETRY FOUNDATION || HARRIET STAFF As in any whodunit mystery, readers have been left to wonder who is kicking Amazon’s virtual behind when it comes to bargains on small press samplings? the Guardian’s response: small press publishers are the ones giving better discounts on small press titles than Amazon. Yes, the word on the street is: buy your small press […]
I am writing to ask you to support 2Leaf Press. We were supposed to receive a nice chunk of money to help pay our operational costs a couple of weeks ago. Everything was set to go but at the twelfth hour, the money was withdrawn. This has put us in an incredible bind, because the […]
2 LEAF PRESS VIDEO from vagabond Beaumont on Vimeo. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Funding we expected to receive several weeks ago was cut. We need to raise at least $5,000 so we can cover our bare minimum expenses for our Fall/Winter books due to come out next month, as well as continue and promote our […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its new releases coming this October 2013. In keeping with our mission, besides publishing and promoting an eclectic group of writers who are ignored by the mainstream, 2Leaf Press continues to publish a lot of “firsts”— The Last Poets’ Abiodun Oyewole‘s first book, BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE, a […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the eBook publication of Hey Yo! Yo Soy! by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, and Brassbones & Rainbows by Shirley Bradley LeFlore. Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry is a bilingual collection that is comprised of three of Meléndez’ previously published books: Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have […]
2Leaf Press poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, author of Hey Yo! Yo Soy, is appearing at Lincoln Center’s annual Out-of-Doors La Casita event. La Casita offers urban poetry, spoken word, and the musical and poetic expressions of traditional and contemporary cultures in two marathon performances featuring 15 artists presented in consecutive days: Saturday, August 3rd, 12 […]
It seems as if it was only yesterday when 2Leaf Press published its first book, Hey Yo! Yo Soy! collected works and bilingual edition by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez in October 2012. Since then, we’ve published Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s debut poetry collection, Brassbones & Rainbows, and her groundbreaking play, Rivers of Women. featuring a photographic essay […]
Left Bank Books is the first major book store in the country to feature a 2Leaf Press author, poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore, a local artist who is a founding member of the Black Artist Group, and has been actively involved in the St. Louis performance art community over the past 5 decades. LeFlore’s debut poetry collection, […]
Tony Medina publishes his long-awaited book, Broke Baroque, the third in a series of “Broke” books. With razor-sharp scatological whimsy, Medina’s iconic ironic existential every man — Broke — bears witness to the plight of homelessness form his curbside porch, torching the capitalist system and its myriad societal contradictions. Medina has the distinction of being the […]
Shirley Bradley LeFlore is set to appear at the St. Louis Public Library – Schlafly Branch as part of their Authors @ Your Library presents program on August 1, 2013, 7:00PM – 8:30PM. LeFlore will discuss the publication of her books, Brassbones & Rainbows and Rivers of Women, perform her poetry and sign books that […]
MACHETERO, the six-time internationally awarded debut feature film by 2Leaf Press team member, Vagabond Beaumont, will have it’s DIY theatrical release for a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City, beginning Wednesday, June 12th, through Tuesday, June 19th, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City’s Loisada (Lower East Side). Written […]
Check out Tony Medina’s book video on his forthcoming book, Broke Baroque: TONY MEDINA IS BROKE by Vagabond Beaumont. Please post on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word.
DONATE = FREE BOOK Donate today to our 2Leaf Press Fundraiser and receive a free book with our thanks! While publishing our literary magazine phati’tude, we were approached by several writers and poets wanting us to publish their books. We had been kicking around the idea of beginning our own publishing house and from this […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce plans to publish Guided by Love: A Tribute to Dylcia Pagán, Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner, edited by Lisa Sánchez González and Dylcia Pagán, Summer 2013. Pagán, who is an activist, producer, director, poet and artist, was one of twelve Puerto Rican Nationalists that were arrested in 1980 and […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce that Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s debut collection, Brasbones & Rainbows, is available for sale on Createspace, Amazon.com and other online outlets in the next few weeks. Born and raised in St. Louis, LeFlore is part of a literary tradition of African American women writers whose roots are firmly planted in […]
If the saying, “third times a charm” holds any truth, then that would be the case for Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s play Rivers of Women’s, and its return engagement to the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis on May 16-19, 2013. In August 2011, Rivers of Women was produced as a staged reading at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis […]