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 […]
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 […]
DAVID R. STAMPONE | PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER Peruvian poet Odi Gonzales seeks to reclaim what was once thought lost. These well-considered translations of Gonzales’ collection Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Lynn Levin, a Delaware Valley poet, writer, translator, and instructor (at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University), give us unprecedented access to these multi-voiced […]
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 […]
SHAKTI CASTRO | LA RESPUESTA J.L. Torres is a Puerto Rico-born, Bronx-raised writer, poet, and professor of literature at Plattsburgh State University. He is one of the co-founders of the Saranac Review, and currently its Editor. His latest book, The Accidental Native, was published in Fall 2013. I recently got the opportunity to speak with […]
READERS+WRITERS JOURNAL “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.” – Ansel Adams What is the relationship between poetry and the selfie? This was one of the questions I sent a number of poets working in different modes. I said they could answer the question, or not, or if they wanted they could include […]
Samuel Diaz Carrion used to work at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the Lower East Side of New York. He would often be asked what a Nuyorican is… In a series of poems and stories from his new book, OUR NUYORICAN THING: THE BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY, Diaz explores the self-made identity that is […]
On November 14, 2014, in celebration of Native American Heritage Month, acclaimed Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales and Drexel adjunct professor, Lynn Levin, made a joint appearance at Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English & Philosophy, to discuss BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE. In this video, they talk about the poetry […]
2Leaf Press is ecstatic that we have finally gotten all of our print editions available for sale as eBooks. It’s been a long road, but we hope our readers will reap the benefits of our beautifully formatted eBooks! Having said that, I thought it was important to discuss the issue of converting our poetry books to […]
Ana Rossetti is one of the most notable voices in contemporary Spanish literature. She began her literary career in the late seventies, soon after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. With her first prize-winning poetry collection published in 1980, she became prominent among the many women poets who used the lifting of censorship to produce […]
Black Poets Speak Out are videos from African American poets creating a conversation about police brutality against people of color.
Patrick Colm Hogan publishes the epic poem, THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS, inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and the BHAGAVAD GITA, with an Introduction by Rachel Fell McDermott.
2Leaf Press author Samuel Diaz Carrion is having his Launch Party for his recently released book, Our Nuyorican Thing, The Birth of a Self-Made Identity on June 29th at 2:00-3:30PM at Taller Boricua in New York City. Poet, writer and activist Diaz Carrion explores the question, “What is a Nuyorican”? and more in Our Nuyorican […]
A. Robert Lee’s latest poetry collection, IMAGINARIUM, explores the “Sightings,” Galleries” and “Sightlines” of one’s imagination, and is available on Amazon,com.
Sean Frederick Forbes debut poetry collection, Providencia, consists of 49 lyrical poems largely inspired by the physical boundaries of Providencia and a Jamaica, Queens in the poet’s quest for self.