2Leaf Press author NOT4PROPHET is making waves on the East Coast as he surfs from town-to-town promoting his new book, Last of the Po’Ricans. NOT4PROPHET is doing a string of book parties in NYC, Baltimore, Pennsylvania and in Connecticut. He already held his NYC book party at La Casa Azul Bookstore in El Barrio in December, […]
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 […]
The Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole’s forthcoming book, Branches of the Tree of Life The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole, 1969-2013 and Our Nuyorican Thing, The Birth of a Self-Made Identity by Samuel Diaz Carrion (under the NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES) have been rescheduled to publish March 2014. Both books were set to publish November 2013, but […]
Vagabond, our resident videographer, graphic artist and book procurer, posted his year-end wrap-up on his blog, Nothing to be Gained Here, sharing with the world the great work he did in 2013, much of it for 2Leaf Press. In it, he explains how he became involved with 2Leaf Press. When I read Vagabond’s wrap-up, I […]
A. Robert Lee’s latest poetry collection, IMAGINARIUM, explores the “Sightings,” Galleries” and “Sightlines” of one’s imagination, and is available on Amazon,com.
Sean Frederick Forbes debut poetry collection, Providencia, consists of 49 lyrical poems largely inspired by the physical boundaries of Providencia and a Jamaica, Queens in the poet’s quest for self.
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 […]
We have just launched 2LP NEWS, a place where we’re posting news items of interest about the people who work so hard to bring to you 2Leaf Press, as well as newsworthy items in the publishing field. If you have some news or information you’d like posted on 2LP News, please send it to editor@2leafpress.org.
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 […]
I am writing to ask you to support 2Leaf Press. We were supposed to receive a nice chunk of money to help pay our operational costs a couple of weeks ago. Everything was set to go but at the twelfth hour, the money was withdrawn. This has put us in an incredible bind, because the […]
2 LEAF PRESS VIDEO from vagabond Beaumont on Vimeo. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Funding we expected to receive several weeks ago was cut. We need to raise at least $5,000 so we can cover our bare minimum expenses for our Fall/Winter books due to come out next month, as well as continue and promote our […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its new releases coming this October 2013. In keeping with our mission, besides publishing and promoting an eclectic group of writers who are ignored by the mainstream, 2Leaf Press continues to publish a lot of “firsts”— The Last Poets’ Abiodun Oyewole‘s first book, BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE, a […]
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 […]
It seems as if it was only yesterday when 2Leaf Press published its first book, Hey Yo! Yo Soy! collected works and bilingual edition by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez in October 2012. Since then, we’ve published Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s debut poetry collection, Brassbones & Rainbows, and her groundbreaking play, Rivers of Women. featuring a photographic essay […]
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 […]