Shirley Bradley LeFlore: Word Warrior

[trx_title type="3" align="center"]Shirley Bradley LeFlore: Word Warrior (1940-2019)[/trx_title] There’s a man singing under my skin Like a gourd song With a clear voice Singing the silk of a hummingbird Deepthroat in the silverblades of holygrass There’s a man singing under my skin Excerpt from "The Musician" by Shirley Bradley LeFlore Throughout most of my publishing [...]

2LP Poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore Makes History as the First Black Woman to Serve as Poet Laureate of St. Louis

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center" font_size="26pt"]2LP Poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore Makes History as the First Black Woman to Serve as Poet Laureate of St. Louis[/trx_title] Shirley Bradley LeFlore was installed as St. Louis’ second poet laureate on November 9, 2018, following Michael Castro, who served as the first St. Louis Poet Laureate. LeFlore, born and raised [...]

Check Out 2Leaf Press Titles on Kobo, Kindle and Nook

As 2Leaf Press moves forward publishing books, we have some titles available on Kobo, Kindle and Nook, with more to come on October 1, 2014. In the meantime, check out the following titles and download them today. Hey Yo! Yo Soy!, 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry The Collected Works of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez Hey […]

The One Thing that Drives 2LP Authors Crazy: Blurb Captions

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 Has Taken Root and is Growing

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 in St. Louis Features 2Leaf Press Poet LeFlore

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, […]

2Leaf Press Publishes Poet LeFlore’s Play, “Rivers of Women”

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 […]

2Leaf Press Celebrates National Poetry Month with 3 Poetry Collections

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 […]

2Leaf Press Launches This Fall 2012

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 […]