Birds on the Kiswar Tree Reviewed by The Pedestal Magazine
Reviewer Maria Rouphail of The Pedestal Magazine did a great review of Birds on The Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales, translated by Lynn Levin.
Celebrating National Poetry Month: Abiodun Oyewole
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 […]
WHITE IN AMERICA Contributors’ Northwest Group Participates in “Whiteness History Month” in Portland Oregon
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? contributors in Portland Oregon (calling themselves the “Northwest Group,” see their Facebook page), consisting of Patrik McDade, Anne Mavor, Leah Mueller, Jan Priddy, Carol Weliky, and Tereza Topferova Bottmanare participating in Portland Community College’s first “Whiteness History Month” where people come together to talk about white privilege, […]
April Is “Whiteness History Month” at Portland Community College
PCC’s Whiteness History Month events will include a reading of essays about white identity. SOPHIA JUNE | WILLAMETTE WEEK Last week, Portland Community College kicked off its first Whiteness History Month. If that brings up a red flag for you, you’re not the only one. The event has been widely controversial, garnering national media attention.WW […]
24 books that will make you a more well-rounded person
NATALIE WALTERS, JACQUELYN SMITH, BUSINESS INSIDER | THE INDEPENDENT Do you aspire to be one of those people who knows at least a little bit about a lot of things? One way of doing it is to read as much as you can, and across as wide a range of genres as possible. Read more […]
The lost art of indexes in ebooks
JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES When was the last time you used an index in an ebook? Maybe the better question is this: Have you ever used an index in an ebook? One of the challenges here is that most ebooks don’t have indexes, the result of the misguided notion that text search is a […]
Books are back thanks to doodling, but that’s far better than the alternative
ALICE JONES | THE INDEPENDENT Books are back. If you are staring at a pile of freshly unwrapped sporting autobiographies and clean eating guides, this may not come as a surprise. Everyone buys books at Christmas; but in 2015, people have been buying them for the other 11 months of the year too, with the […]
Write a killer memoir: My 9 top tips
ALAN RINZLER | THE BOOK DEAL Want to write a memoir that’s powerful and inspiring? One that has impact, and appeals to a broad popular market? Here’s how. These 9 tips come directly from my 50+ years of working with authors as a developmental editor in major publishing houses and with private clients. 1. Create a […]
2LP Plans to Celebrate National Poetry Month 2016 with 2 New Poetry Collections
National Poetry Month, held every April, is the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. In keeping with this tradition, 2Leaf Press will be publishing two poetry collections in April 2016, OFF COURSE: ROUNDABOUTS & DEVIATIONS by A. Robert Lee and TARTESSOS […]
2Leaf Press Announces New Series: 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY
2Leaf Press has created a new series 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY. The first volume of the series will be 2Leaf Press forthcoming tile, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA: BREAKING THE WHAT CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, due for publication in April 2016. 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY was created when […]
Tara Betts to Write Afterword to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA
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 […]
Announcing the Contributors to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, Coming April 15, 2016!
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 […]
Five Tips for Writing a Book Description That Isn’t A Bore
DANIELA MCVICKER | BOOK BABY BLOG The more compelling your book description, the more likely people will click to learn more about what you have written, and the more likely they are to make a purchase. You’ve written an amazing book. You’ve gone through a thorough editing process. Your book cover has been designed and […]
2LP Poet: “SUNY Plattsburgh professor pens poetry collection”
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 […]
Last Call for WHITE IN AMERICA Anthology
LAST CALL DEADLINE: December 1, 2015 Well, it’s November and very soon we will be closing out the open call submission to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA. It’s been an amazing journey in itself. Really. And not for the reasons you may think. First of all, the question is really a difficult […]
An Update on WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA?
When Sean Frederick Forbes and I announced the open call submission for our forthcoming anthology, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, we didn’t know what to expect. We certainly expected some hate mail (very few and of little consequence, thank goodness), and some criticism, but what we didn’t expect was that white […]
41 Indian writers return highest literary honour to protest against PM Narendra Modi
INDEPENDENT || OCTOBER 2015 Dozens of writers have returned India’s highest literary honour to protest what they call a growing climate of intolerance in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government took office. So far 41 novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets had returned the awards they received from India’s prestigious literary academy, saying they […]
Five Words and Phrases Derived from Mistranslations
PAUL ANTHONY JONES | WATERSTONES | OCTOBER 2015 International Translation Day is celebrated each year on the 30th of September—the feast day of St Jerome, the patron saint of translators, who is known for being among the first in history to translate the Bible from Greek into Latin. But translations from one language to another […]