2Leaf Press: 18 books
by Claire Millikin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
TARTESSOS AND OTHER CITIES is Claire Millikin's second book of poetry with 2Leaf Press that continues to explore homelessness. In this collection, Millikin uses the sensitivity of poetry to express some of the emotions surrounded by homelessness and loss. Named for Tartessos, a lost city on the Guadalquivir,...
Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry
40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
HEY YO! YO SOY! 40 YEARS OF NUYORICAN STREET POETRY, A BILINGUAL EDITION is a 386-page collection, comprised of three previously published books, CASTING LONG SHADOWS (1970), HAVE YOU SEEN LIBERATION (1971), and STREET POETRY & OTHER POEMS (1972), that consist of stories about growing up Puerto...
The Beiging of America
Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes on "race matters" and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed-race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists...
Black Lives Have Always Mattered
A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyond the Black Lives Matter movement's primary agenda of police brutality to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, racial injustice and...
Written Eye
Visuals/Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
WRITTEN EYE: VISUALS/VERSE by A. Robert Lee offers poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the "action” of a painting or sculpture, Lee seeks both to engage and amplify their meaning. Accessible and insightful,...
PAPOLiTICO
Poems of a Political Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
PAPOLiTICO, POEMS OF A POLITICAL PERSUASION is award-winning poet Jesus Papoleto Melendez' sixth book of poetry. Witty, wise, personal and political, Melendez, often weary of the social issues and politics of the day, has created an exciting compilation of new and previously published poems in a collection...
The Beauty of Being
A Collection of Fables, Short Stories & Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
THE BEAUTY OF BEING, A COLLECTION OF FABLES, SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS, is Abiodun Oyewole's debut collection of prose. Oyewole writes frankly about his experience as a young poet and activist, and provides life lessons with fables and a fascinating travelogue that promotes resilience and self-care...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA?
Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? BREAKING THE WHITE CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, is a 680-page groundbreaking collection of 82 personal narratives that reflects a vibrant range of stories from white Americans who speak frankly and openly about race. In answering the...
by Tony Medina
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. With razor sharp scatological whimsy, Medina's iconic ironic existential everyman-Broke-bears witness to the plight of homelessness from his curbside porch, torching the capitalist system and its myriad societal...
by Shirley Bradley LeFlore
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is the debut poetry collection of Shirley Bradley LeFlore, an oral poet and performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri who has been on the literary scene for over five decades. While LeFlore tackles social, political and cultural issues with a profound love for humanity,...
by A. Robert Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
OFF COURSE: ROUNDABOUTS & DEVIATIONS is A. Robert Lee’s latest collection that interleaves poetry and prose. Beneath the carefully crafted and accessible surface of Lee’s work lies a profound, complex voice that deliberately disrupts traditional literary boundaries and distinctions. Different...
by A. Robert Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
IMAGINARIUM: SIGHTINGS, GALLERIES, SIGHTLINES, A. Robert Lee’s latest collection of poetry, turns on two connecting keynotes: imagination and sight. Across a broad canvas each of its sequences explores the ways we go about imagining as much as seeing reality. Sightings, which opens the book,...
The Fourth Moment
Journeys from the Known to the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
THE FOURTH MOMENT, JOURNEYS FROM THE KNOWN TO THE UNKNOWN is a memoir by Carole J. Garrison. A child of humble beginnings, Garrison paved the way for herself to accomplish great things, but for her, the journey was far from your typical “rags to riches” tale. Through a series of tragedies and...
Our Nuyorican Thing
The Birth of a Self-Made Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What is a “Nuyorican”? And what does it mean? Poet, writer and activist Samuel Diaz Carrion explores this question and more in OUR NUYORICAN THING, THE BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY. What started out as blog correspondence for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s website (2001-2004), quickly turned into...
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