Introducing READING IS GOOD FOR YOU 2LP Merchandise

[trx_title type="4" font_size="32px" position="top"]Introducing READING IS GOOD FOR YOU 2LP Merchandise[/trx_title] Everyone likes to sell merchandise. Book publishers especially. But since it’s an ancillary business and small presses are strapped for time and manpower, it’s a business that’s often neglected. Also, how can you make a mug or t-shirt appealing enough so that people will [...]

2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List

[trx_title type="3" position="top"] 2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press, a black/brown female-led nonprofit press has challenged the status quo since 2012 by publishing books on diversity and social justice by a diverse group of writers.  Rather than publish books that use the anti-racist approach of "teaching/preaching" with a dogmatic approach with seminar-like [...]

What the Coronavirus Means for 2Leaf Press

[trx_title font_size="32pt"]What the Coronavirus Means for 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our lives. But what has not changed during this challenging time is my belief in the power of books to entertain and inform, and 2Leaf Press’ dedication to its many constituencies—poets, authors, students, professors, teachers, libraries, vendors, readers and [...]

We Are One: Tribute to Steve Cannon

[trx_title type="3" align="center"]We Are One: Tribute to Steve Cannon (1935-2019)[/trx_title] Charlie Parker. Bird. Yardbird. While he was one of the most important figures in the development of jazz and in particular Bop, not all jazz aficionados celebrated his sound, but Steve did. It’s because he could hear and see the notes between the notes. Better [...]

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] As the work published by 2Leaf Press repeatedly and potently reminds, social justice and human rights are, more often than not, elusive goals and aspirational aims in a world marked by racism, sexism, homophobia, and nativism. Nevertheless, as anthologies such [...]

Sean Frederick Forbes

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Sean Frederick Forbes Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] What is the point of writing and supporting an independent press like 2Leaf Press when it seems like not much else matters? What is the point of writing and creating when so many are feeling marrow-deep despair? Perhaps despair is [...]

Abiodun Oyewole

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Abiodun Oyewole Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is a vital organ for blacks and Latinos to publish their poetry and stories. Unfortunately there are not many (if at all any) outlets that consistently publish our work. I am personally proud of the press, because Gabrielle David [...]

Claire Millikin Raymond

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Claire Millikin Raymond Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] Five years ago, when I saw there was a new press that published Nuyorican poetry I felt it was destiny. That statement needs explanation—I’m white, and never participated in Nuyorican poetry slams—but getting my MFA in New York City, the [...]

Tara Betts

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Tara Betts Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press is an underdog of a press that stays true to the possibilities of American letters and world literature. Supporting presses like 2Leaf offers a way to expand the literary canon that has often been aimed at a diverse range [...]

Gabrielle David

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Gabrielle David Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] I wanted to create a press that was led by black/brown folks that was inclusive to all writers of a multicultural sensibility that also explores social justice, with a sensitive ear to women and writers of color. It has been no [...]

Robert Coburn

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Robert Coburn Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] As a small independent publisher, Gabrielle David’s struggle has been to find a supportive distributor for 2Leaf Press, and has successfully found one with University of Chicago Press. A partnership with Chicago, while great, comes with the cost of processing fees [...]

Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako)

[trx_title type="4" style="underline" align="center" font_size="28pt"]Here's What Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako) Has to Say About 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] I encourage everyone to support 2Leaf Press. Its mission to serve and promote the works of established and fledgling poets and writers is essential to the literary world. When large publishing companies regularly deny submissions by unknown [...]

2LP Fall 2018 Sneak Peak

2Leaf Press is full of surprises! Here is a sneak peak of some of our Fall books coming out in October and November 2018. It’s a fall of memoirs, personal narratives, and the publication of a literary classic. And this is just the beginning. Stay tuned.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Short Story Writers (And Demand They Write a Novel)

AMBER SPARKS | ELECTRIC LITERATURE Google almost any celebrated short story writer – George Saunders, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, Isak Dinesen, Joy Williams – and you’re likely to see the same two words over and over again: “writer’s writer.” Lest you be tempted to exalt that phrase’s use, consider Cynthia Ozick’s description: “Every writer understands […]

Is James Patterson’s New Imprint the Second Coming of Pulp Fiction?

JONATHON STURGEON | FLAVORWIRE This is how the world’s best-selling novelist sells more books. Since March, we’ve heard about a forthcoming publishing venture from James Patterson, the best-selling novelist of the age. “To date,” writes the New York Times, “[Patterson] has published 156 books that have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide.” Or, rather, […]

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