PUBLISHER’S COMMENTS Samuel Diaz Carrion has been part of the Nuyorican landscape for years, writing poetry, and working as an activist. He was there when the founders of the movement decided to turn a negative into a positive by adopting a pejorative in defiance of others; and he was there when Miguel Algarin and Pedro […]
Tara Betts’s Website PUBLISHER’S COMMENTS Tara Betts has had an extraordinary career as a spoken word artist, activist, poet, teacher, and scholar. Coming from Chicago, she had the likes of Gwendolyn Brooks as a mentor; became a member of the pre-eminent African American poetry organization, Cave Canem; had residencies from Ragdale Foundation, Centrum and Caldera, […]
2Leaf Press is proud to announce its new series, 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY.
Reviewer Maria Rouphail of The Pedestal Magazine did a great review of Birds on The Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales, translated by Lynn Levin.
Abiodun Oyewole’s Website PUBLISHER’S COMMENTS: I met Abiodun in 2004 when I was working on the phatLiterature, A Literary TV Program, which was videotaped at the Langston Hughes Library in 2004. We did a show about political poetry and I thought he’d make an interesting guest. When I contacted him, he was nothing what I […]
We are pleased to announce that Professor, poet and scholar, Tara Betts, will be writing the afterword to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA due for release April 15, 2016. Betts holds a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. A Cave Canem […]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA Breaking the White Code of Silence A Collection of Personal Narratives ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-48-3 (pbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-49-0 (eBook) LCCN: 2015913482 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, edited by Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes, with an introduction by Debby Irving and an afterword by […]
Congrats to J.L. Torres’ review in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise as noted below! “Boricua Passport” by J.L. Torres, 2Leaf Press, 2014 MARILYN McCABE | ADIRONDACK DAILY ENTERPRISE | Special to the Enterprise, Adirondack Center for Writing Some of the richest literature of the world is the literature of exile – artists driven from their homelands […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce that racial justice educator and activist, Debby Irving, will be writing the introduction to the forthcoming book, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, edited by Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes, slated for publication, April 2016. Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as […]
DAVID R. STAMPONE | PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER Peruvian poet Odi Gonzales seeks to reclaim what was once thought lost. These well-considered translations of Gonzales’ collection Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Lynn Levin, a Delaware Valley poet, writer, translator, and instructor (at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University), give us unprecedented access to these multi-voiced […]
ROBERT WADDELL | VIRTUAL BORICUA The poet-musician Not4Prophet is a refreshing, inspiring individual. Anyone who has ever met him or heard him perform knows he carries the confidence and energy of someone who creates art for the sake of his community and its political struggle. Very little of what he does involves seeking fame or […]
SHAKTI CASTRO | LA RESPUESTA J.L. Torres is a Puerto Rico-born, Bronx-raised writer, poet, and professor of literature at Plattsburgh State University. He is one of the co-founders of the Saranac Review, and currently its Editor. His latest book, The Accidental Native, was published in Fall 2013. I recently got the opportunity to speak with […]
Ezra E. Fitz is a translator and novelist. His translations of contemporary Latin American literature by Alberto Fuguet and Eloy Urroz have been praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Believer, among other publications. His work has appeared in The Boston Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Words Without Borders, […]
Ana Rossetti is one of the most notable voices in contemporary Spanish literature. She began her literary career in the late seventies, soon after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. With her first prize-winning poetry collection published in 1980, she became prominent among the many women poets who used the lifting of censorship to produce […]
For Father’s Day, MPR News delves into six famous literary fathers Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Kingsley Amis, Stephen King, Evelyn Waugh and Roald Dahl, and how these father and child author pairs have turned out some great literature — and some bitter family tell-alls as well. >>READ MORE
Yes. You can now pre-order 2Leaf Press titles on Amazon.com. It’s been a long time coming (we were unable, or allowed to do it two years ago), so we are real excited to present yet another aspect of our services. As we grow, the possibilities grow! You can now order Puerto Rican Folktales/Cuentos folcloricos puertorriquenos by […]
Patrick Colm Hogan publishes the epic poem, THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS, inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and the BHAGAVAD GITA, with an Introduction by Rachel Fell McDermott.
As 2Leaf Press moves forward publishing books, we have some titles available on Kobo, Kindle and Nook, with more to come on October 1, 2014. In the meantime, check out the following titles and download them today. Hey Yo! Yo Soy!, 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry The Collected Works of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez Hey […]