ROBERT WADDELL | VIRTUAL BORICUA The poet-musician Not4Prophet is a refreshing, inspiring individual. Anyone who has ever met him or heard him perform knows he carries the confidence and energy of someone who creates art for the sake of his community and its political struggle. Very little of what he does involves seeking fame or […]
Not4Prophet, author of his first poetry collection, LAST OF THE PO’RICANS Y OTROS ARTIFACTS, reading/performing at the UConn Co-op Bookstore in Storrs Center, March 25, 2014.
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 […]
Not4Prophet strikes again in an a feature in Aplauso New York at Zoom Village about his poetry and his latest book, Last of the Po’Ricans. Check out the article, Aplauso to Not4Prophet. You will not be disappointed!
Yes, the dreaded blurb captions! We send out for ten and hope to get five. We go after some very famous people and sometimes, if we can get it past their management, we luck up with one or two. Authors pull their hair out of their heads: People they thought who would easily supply a […]
2Leaf Press is launching it’s new series “2Leaf Press Presents” at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on February 9, 2014. Our inaugural event will feature Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole, who will read from his forthcoming groundbreaking collection, Branches From the Tree of Life, The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole, 1969-2013. Joining him will be 2Leaf Press […]
We’re happy to finally announce the publication of Not4Prophet’s debut poetry collection, Last of the Po’Ricans y Otros Afro-Artifacts, with graphics by Vagabond and an introduction by award-winning poet and 2Leaf Press author, Tony Medina. Vagabond also wrote the afterword, which discusses the history of Last of the Po’Ricans and how he came to create […]
2Leaf Press author NOT4PROPHET is making waves on the East Coast as he surfs from town-to-town promoting his new book, Last of the Po’Ricans. NOT4PROPHET is doing a string of book parties in NYC, Baltimore, Pennsylvania and in Connecticut. He already held his NYC book party at La Casa Azul Bookstore in El Barrio in December, […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its new releases coming this October 2013. In keeping with our mission, besides publishing and promoting an eclectic group of writers who are ignored by the mainstream, 2Leaf Press continues to publish a lot of “firsts”— The Last Poets’ Abiodun Oyewole‘s first book, BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE, a […]
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.
This spring, 2Leaf Press celebrates National Poetry Month by publishing two established and two emerging poets we’ve admired for quite some time: Shirley Bradley LeFlore, Tony Medina, and (not4)Prophet. In some way, each poet raises the stakes of a poetics that invokes the bardic tradition as aesthetic activism, providing food for thought and wisdom for […]