KATHY MIZERA | BOOKSHOP BLOG | DECEMBER 2014 As the holiday shopping season swings into full force, it’s interesting to watch people buying books. Many a wish list has everything from the latest by Stephen King to an Amazon Gift Card (an actual card or via email) to a new e-reader device. Yet the battle […]
Amazing. Phenomenal. These are the words I heard after Not4Prophet’s performance at UCONN Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center on March 25, 2014. You can read more about Not4Prophet’s performance at The UCONN Daily Campus newspaper. It just goes to show the importance of supporting emerging poets and writers, and 2Leaf Press hit the ball out […]
On Saturday, March 22, 2014, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC), Department of English, and Department of Afro-American Studies presented a symposium and commemorative program entitled: IN THE TRADITION, Celebrating the Life and Work of the Late Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 2Leaf Press authors Abiodun Oyewole and Tony Medina (pictured with Howard Dodson (left) and […]
Sean Frederick Forbes has been a “busy bee” these days. Besides holding down his post as Director of Creative Writing in the English Department at UCONN, he’s busy promoting his book, Providencia. as well as taking on additional responsibilities as a newly appointed Board Member of the IAAS, the nonprofit organization that manages 2Leaf Press. […]
Gabrielle David, publisher of 2Leaf Press, was honored, along with poet-impresario Bob Holman, Andrew Jackson (Queens Library), Stephen Motika (Poets House), and Prerana Reddy (Queens Museum) by outgoing Poet Laureate of Queens, Paolo Javier. “It was a great honor for me because I had a chance to spend the day with poets, and for a […]
A lot has happened these past few months here at 2Leaf Press and our little kingdom. While we were experiencing illnesses (I myself landed in the hospital) coupled with weird New York weather, we recently got hit with a rash of deaths that knocked us all for a loop from both family members and the […]
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, […]
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 […]