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 [...]

Claire Millikin Raymond

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Claire Millikin Raymond Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] Five years ago, when I saw there was a new press that published Nuyorican poetry I felt it was destiny. That statement needs explanation—I’m white, and never participated in Nuyorican poetry slams—but getting my MFA in New York City, the [...]

Tara Betts

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Tara Betts Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is an underdog of a press that stays true to the possibilities of American letters and world literature. Supporting presses like 2Leaf offers a way to expand the literary canon that has often been aimed at a diverse range [...]

Spring 2019 Catalog Available

[trx_title type="3" align="center" font_size="26 pt"]Happy Holidays! Celebrate the Holidays With Our Spring 2019 Catalog[/trx_title] It's cold outside. It's snowing. Christmas trees are popping up all over the place. Everyone is advertising for the holiday season. So it must be time for 2Leaf Press’ Spring 2019 catalog! It is also our first catalog published in conjunction [...]

2LP Poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore Makes History as the First Black Woman to Serve as Poet Laureate of St. Louis

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center" font_size="26pt"]2LP Poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore Makes History as the First Black Woman to Serve as Poet Laureate of St. Louis[/trx_title] Shirley Bradley LeFlore was installed as St. Louis’ second poet laureate on November 9, 2018, following Michael Castro, who served as the first St. Louis Poet Laureate. LeFlore, born and raised [...]

Gabrielle David

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Gabrielle David Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] 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 no [...]

Robert Coburn

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Robert Coburn Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] As a small independent publisher, Gabrielle David’s struggle has been to find a supportive distributor for 2Leaf Press, and has successfully found one with University of Chicago Press. A partnership with Chicago, while great, comes with the cost of processing fees [...]

Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open[/trx_title] Growing up, some of the best, well-traveled people I have known never stepped on a plane to go anywhere, but the way they talked about faraway places, you’d think they had a fully stamped passport. One of those people was my mother, who enjoyed [...]

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Jesús Papoleto Meléndez Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] It may be said that I have a professional and personal relationship with 2Leaf Press, and I’m glad of it. 2Leaf Press is the type of publishing entity that I've waited a great many years to see come to realization. [...]

Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako)

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako) Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] I encourage everyone to support 2Leaf Press. Its mission to serve and promote the works of established and fledgling poets and writers is essential to the literary world. When large publishing companies regularly deny submissions by unknown [...]

Amazing Quote Post

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