"Ransom Street" is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for t...

Naomi Raquel Enright's "Strength of Soul" proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and th...

"Wounds Fragments Derelict" is Carlos Gabriel Kelly's debut poetry collection. These poems comprise a narrative of love and loss. Throughout the collection, Kelly weaves poetic fragments into a narrative expressing the torment of a relationship that...

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...

Homelessness touches every corner of our country, even the most prosperous ones. In "No Vacancy: Homeless Women in Paradise", Michael E. Reid tells the story of more than five hundred women living without shelter in the affluent sea-side communities...