Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Reading is Dreaming With Our Eyes Open[/trx_title] Growing up, some of the best, well-traveled people I have known never stepped on a plane to go anywhere, but the way they talked about faraway places, you’d think they had a fully stamped passport. One of those people was my mother, who enjoyed [...]

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month[/trx_title] We are a little late in acknowledging Hispanic Heritage Month. 2Leaf Press is still engaged in its transition with our new distributor, University of Chicago Press, and as a result, we have fallen a bit behind schedule. However, since its founding in 2012, 2Leaf Press has always celebrated [...]

Summer Reading is Good for You

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Summer Reading is Good for You[/trx_title] The idea of “Summer Reading” was initially created to encourage parents to have their children read during summer vacation. Why? Because summer reading is critical to one's ability to not only retain information, but also to grow in knowledge and develop critical thinking skills. Most literacy [...]

2Leaf Press Announces New Books

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center"]2Leaf Press Announces New Books[/trx_title][trx_title type="4" align="center" font_size="18pt"]The Fourth Moment Written Eye and A Country Without Borders[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its November releases that shares stories of memories, poetry and prose. Written Eye: Visuals/Verses, a collection of ekphrasitc poetry, A Country Without Borders, Poems and Stories of Kashmir, the [...]

What Happened in Charlottesville: If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]What Happened in Charlottesville[/trx_title][trx_title type="3" align="center" font_size="20pt"]If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention[/trx_title] Anyone who knows me well know that I have a lot to say when it comes to politics, social justice, and history. My mantra has always been multicultural and intercultural, with a politically center-to-left ideology based [...]

Remembering Samuel Diaz Carrion

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Remembering Samuel Diaz Carrion[/trx_title][trx_title type="3" align="center" font_size="18pt"]January 3, 1947 ~ June 30, 2017[/trx_title] [Photo taken at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (2013) at Jesus Papoleto Melendez book party.  Photo: Vagabond.] I remember the poetry scene during the 1990s in New York City. Poetry scenes come and go, but I don't think there will ever [...]

2Leaf Press Needs You to Donate. Today.

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]2Leaf Press Needs You to Donate.  Today.[/trx_title][trx_title type="3" align="left" font_size="20pt"]It’s that time of year again, and this time around, I’m using a different approach, which is to talk honestly about 2Leaf Press and its quest for survival.[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), [...]

What’s Next for 2Leaf Press

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]What's Next for 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] FOUNDED IN 2012, in just an incredibly short period of time, 2Leaf Press is injecting new blood into the contemporary literary scene with emerging and established authors. We’re also quickly building a reputation of publishing literary fiction and cultural non-fiction that’s completely distinct from works published by [...]

Amazon extends their dominance with Audible Channels

JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES Even though they’re gaining momentum I’ve never been a big fan of audio books. Amazon, of course, owns the market with both Audible and Brilliance. Although it didn’t receive a lot fanfare last week, Audible introduced one of the most interesting and long overdue services that I’ve seen in a long time. I’m […]

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