Nuyorican poet and 2Leaf Press author, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez,, will be celebrating the first anniversary of the release of his seminal poetry collection, HEY YO! YO SOY! “¡Hey Yo-Yo Soy!” Book Party @ the Nuyorican Poets’ Café 236 East 3rd Street Between Ave B & C Reverend Pedro Pietri Way, New York City Thursday, October […]
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Jaime “Shaggy” Flores, who was instrumental in the publication of HEY YO! YO SOY! (Flores did the cover design and wrote the afterword), is publishing his second collection of poetry, Obatalá’s Bugalú: A Nuyorican Book of Sights and Sounds, a follow-up to his first poetry collection, Sanchocho: A Book of Nuyorican Poetry. In this latest […]
Brandi Dawn Henderson, editor of WHEREABOUTS: STEPPING OUT OF PLACE, a nonfiction anthology from Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine is launching WHEREABOUTS in Washington D.C. at two sites this week. WHEREABOUTS consists of thirty-eight emerging and established global storytellers who share stories discussing what it means to enter a new place; the kinds of […]
Vagabond Beaumont, a filmmaker, artist, author and photographer, has been a great asset to our organization, whether he is filming, producing and directing our promotional videos, creating fabulous press photos of our authors or designing a couple of great book covers for 2Leaf Press, notably for Abiodun Oyewole and Dylcia Pagan. But first and foremost, […]
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 […]