This is a first on all fronts! 2Leaf Press is publishing its first novel, The Morning Side of the Hill, by Ezra E. Fitz, his first novel! In The Morning Side of the Hill, Fitz’ asks readers: What if you anted up and kicked in everything you had on a belief, a hope, a dream, on […]
What happens when professor-scholar Lisa Sánchez González embarked on publishing the first definitive collection of Puerto Rican Folktales in over 50 years? She teamed-up with a Puerto Rican artist who could bring readers closer to the retelling of these quintessential stories and capture Puerto Rican culture. That artist is Teofilo Oliveri.
Lisa Sánchez González’ long-awaited PUERTO RICAN FOLKTALES/ CUENTOS FOLCLÓRICOS PUERTORRIQUEÑOS is the first comprehensive bilingual collection of Puerto Rican folktales published in nearly 50 years.
SAMUEL DIAZ CARRION is a Puerto Rican poet and writer born in the South Bronx. While working as a chemist, he participated in meetings that led to the founding of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New Rican Village and other venues. Over the years, he has coordinated poetry and reading series, and managed theatrical events for […]
CARMELA FERRADÁNS is the editor and translator for INCESSANT BEAUTY, A BILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY by award-winning Spanish poet, Ana Rossetti. A professor of Hispanic Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, Ferradáns specializes in contemporary Spanish poetry with a strong interest in critical theory and cultural studies. In addition to language courses, she also teaches Modern and Contemporary […]
Not4Prophet strikes again in an a feature in Aplauso New York at Zoom Village about his poetry and his latest book, Last of the Po’Ricans. Check out the article, Aplauso to Not4Prophet. You will not be disappointed!
2Leaf Press is launching it’s new series “2Leaf Press Presents” at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on February 9, 2014. Our inaugural event will feature Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole, who will read from his forthcoming groundbreaking collection, Branches From the Tree of Life, The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole, 1969-2013. Joining him will be 2Leaf Press […]
We’re happy to finally announce the publication of Not4Prophet’s debut poetry collection, Last of the Po’Ricans y Otros Afro-Artifacts, with graphics by Vagabond and an introduction by award-winning poet and 2Leaf Press author, Tony Medina. Vagabond also wrote the afterword, which discusses the history of Last of the Po’Ricans and how he came to create […]
When Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) made his transition on January 9, 2014 at age 79, people quickly came together to support his wife of over 40 years, Amina Baraka and his nine children, deal with a loss that not only profoundly effected them, personally, but an entire community of artists, activists and intellectuals. The Baraka […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]