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 […]
Vagabond Beaumont, a filmmaker, artist, author and photographer, has been a great asset to our organization, whether he is filming, producing and directing our promotional videos, creating fabulous press photos of our authors or designing a couple of great book covers for 2Leaf Press, notably for Abiodun Oyewole and Dylcia Pagan. But first and foremost, […]
EDWARD NAWOTKA || PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Today’s feature story “Going Small to Make it Big” looks at some of the advantages of small press publishing, which can include increased personal attention, more flexible program, higher priority for marketing within the house, and the ability to have more direct influence on the publishing process. Yet, there are […]
POETRY FOUNDATION || HARRIET STAFF As in any whodunit mystery, readers have been left to wonder who is kicking Amazon’s virtual behind when it comes to bargains on small press samplings? the Guardian’s response: small press publishers are the ones giving better discounts on small press titles than Amazon. Yes, the word on the street is: buy your small press […]
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 Everything was set to go but at the twelfth hour, the money was withdrawn.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of Shirley Bradley LeFlore’s play, Rivers of Women. This phenomenal play has been published as Rivers of Women, The Play with photographs by Michael J. Bracey. This beautiful 8.5″ x 8.5″ 114 page book is available for sale on our Createspace website and on Amazon.com and other […]
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.
Lisa Sánchez González, a 2Leaf Press author, is set to appear at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies,Centro at Hunter College/CUNY in East Harlem on April 24th to promote Belpré Book.
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its publishing partnership with poet, professor and activist, Tony Medina. Beginning spring 2013, 2Leaf Press will publish Broke Baroque, the third in a series of Medina’s Broke Books, with an introduction by Ishmael Reed. “I hitched my poetry wagon to 2LP because I see it as a new upcoming, […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the publication of its first book, Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition by Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez. This 386-page collection, comprised of three previously published books, Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have You Seen Liberation (1971), and Street Poetry & Other Poems […]
2Leaf Press launches this fall with two very important works: Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’ ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy!, 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, The collected works of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, VOLUME NO. 1; and Shirley Bradley LeFLore’s Brassbones & Rainbows, celebrating 50 years of literary excellence. We recently added first-time authors Lorraine Miller Nuzzo […]
Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez publishes groundbreaking bilingual poetry collection, ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition October 26th.