MACHETERO, the six-time internationally awarded debut feature film by 2Leaf Press team member, Vagabond Beaumont, will have it’s DIY theatrical release for a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City, beginning Wednesday, June 12th, through Tuesday, June 19th, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City’s Loisada (Lower East Side). Written […]
Check out Tony Medina’s book video on his forthcoming book, Broke Baroque: TONY MEDINA IS BROKE by Vagabond Beaumont. Please post on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word.
DONATE = FREE BOOK Donate today to our 2Leaf Press Fundraiser and receive a free book with our thanks! While publishing our literary magazine phati’tude, we were approached by several writers and poets wanting us to publish their books. We had been kicking around the idea of beginning our own publishing house and from this […]
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 […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce that Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s debut collection, Brasbones & Rainbows, is available for sale on Createspace, Amazon.com and other online outlets in the next few weeks. Born and raised in St. Louis, LeFlore is part of a literary tradition of African American women writers whose roots are firmly planted in […]
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 […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s full-length poetry collection Brassbones & Rainbows.
If you submit manuscripts to publishers or agents, you’ve probably come across the demand that you use standard manuscript format.” As an editor, I can tell you that queries and manuscript submissions (unfortunately) come in all shapes, sizes, fonts and (I’m not making this up) colors, making it a pain to sift through them. Sometimes […]
2Leaf Press announces its first signing of poet and activist Jesús Papoleto Meléndez. Meléndez is set to publish a bilingual omnibus of his first three volumes of poetry, Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have You Seen Liberation (1971), and Street Poetry & Other Poems (1972), that are as relevant today as when they were first published. […]
2Leaf Press is looking for a few good writers to publish some great books.