The Shirley Bradley LeFlore Literary Award, named in honor of lifelong poet, activist, and educator, St. Louis Poet Laureate Emeritus Shirley J. Bradley Price LeFlore (1940-2019), recognizes the best in emergent women poets in Missouri. The award is given biennially for a debut poetry collection sponsored by the Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foundation and published by [...]

2Leaf Press is pleased to announce some of its Spring/Summer titles. All titles are available for preorder at University of Chicago Press and other online outlets. why an author writes to a guy holding a fish by Laila Halaby April 2022 Laila Halaby’s second collection of poetry, why an author writes to a guy holding [...]

As we finish celebrating Black History Month and plunge into Women’s History Month, Black and Brown women find themselves dealing with the uniquely American contempt that began with the Atlantic slave trade and continues in various transmuting forms to this day. We consider ourselves inclusive but are not treated as such. When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined [...]