2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s play, Rivers of Women. This phenomenal play has been published as Rivers of Women, The Play with photographs by Michael J. Bracey. This beautiful 8.5″ x 8.5″ 114 page book is available for sale on our Createspace website and on Amazon.com and other […]
Hip hop and punk. History lessons wrapped in street lingo. Find out more about the poet (not4)Prophet and his debut collection, Last of The Po’ Ricans y Otras Afro-artifacts.
2Leaf Press poet Tony Medina, who is set to publish his poetry collection Broke Baroque in May, was one of two keynote speakers invited to address the 31st Annual Langston Hughes Society Luncheon in Kentucky on April 11, 2013 at University of Kentucky, Lexington. Medina, who is also a children’s author, delivered the keynote address […]
Lisa Sánchez González, a 2Leaf Press author, is set to appear at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies,Centro at Hunter College/CUNY in East Harlem on April 24th to promote Belpré Book.
This spring, 2Leaf Press celebrates National Poetry Month by publishing two established and two emerging poets we’ve admired for quite some time: Shirley Bradley LeFlore, Tony Medina, and (not4)Prophet. In some way, each poet raises the stakes of a poetics that invokes the bardic tradition as aesthetic activism, providing food for thought and wisdom for […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its publishing partnership with poet, professor and activist, Tony Medina. Beginning spring 2013, 2Leaf Press will publish Broke Baroque, the third in a series of Medina’s Broke Books, with an introduction by Ishmael Reed. “I hitched my poetry wagon to 2LP because I see it as a new upcoming, […]
Check out Jesús Papoleto Meléndez ‘ book video: THE FIRE BEGAN ON THE FIRE ESCAPE by Vagabond Beaumont. Photo by Leslie Jean-Bart. Please post on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word.
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of its first book, Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition by Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez. This 386-page collection, comprised of three previously published books, Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have You Seen Liberation (1971), and Street Poetry & Other Poems […]
2Leaf Press launches this fall with two very important works: Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’ ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy!, 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, The collected works of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, VOLUME NO. 1; and Shirley Bradley LeFLore’s Brassbones & Rainbows, celebrating 50 years of literary excellence. We recently added first-time authors Lorraine Miller Nuzzo […]
Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez publishes groundbreaking bilingual poetry collection, ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition October 26th.
The IAAS is pleased to report it’s Internship Program’s latest success: the implementation of translation interns from Hunter College’s Department of Romance Languages. The IAAS offers a small number of internships each year, usually for phati’tude Literary Magazine, and for website design and website content. In January 2012, phati’tude Literary Magazine needed translation interns for […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s full-length poetry collection Brassbones & Rainbows.
Over the past few months, people have asked why is 2Leaf Press an imprint and what‘s the distinction between an imprint and a publisher. Here’s the skinny!
If you submit manuscripts to publishers or agents, you’ve probably come across the demand that you use standard manuscript format.” As an editor, I can tell you that queries and manuscript submissions (unfortunately) come in all shapes, sizes, fonts and (I’m not making this up) colors, making it a pain to sift through them. Sometimes […]
2Leaf Press announces its first signing of poet and activist Jesús Papoleto Meléndez. Meléndez is set to publish a bilingual omnibus of his first three volumes of poetry, Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have You Seen Liberation (1971), and Street Poetry & Other Poems (1972), that are as relevant today as when they were first published. […]
When 2Leaf Press agrees to publish your work, you will be required to sign a publishing agreement. Let’s just say, right off the bat, that many complaints are hurled at publishers for legal requirements, including the seemingly unfair percentages of income and the extensive rights they retain in publishing deals. But the truth of the […]
If you would like to include photographs, line drawings, maps, charts, or other illustrations in your book once your book has been accepted for publication, it’s particularly important that you to submit the highest quality work. First, it’s important that we get permission from the artist, which is the author’s responsibility. Secondly, we only accept […]