Christina Giarrusso 7/1/24 Christina Giarrusso 7/1/24

Review: KB Brookins’s FREEDOM HOUSE as Manifesto

“To hold history in your hands, pain-heavy but hopeful, that is what it is like to read Freedom House by KB Brookins.”

–Katherine O’Hara

Christina Giarrusso 6/20/24 Christina Giarrusso 6/20/24

Interview: “Ode to the Black Girl Group Chat” with Cynthia Manick and Anastacia-Reneé

In this Sticky Fingers interview, Cynthia Manick and Anastacia-Reneé give us a peek at the Back Girl Group Chat, sharing blurbs, laughs, and community.

”Cynthia: We've been doing our blurbs since November 2022. When you think of them and the Black Girl Group Chat, where and when has it helped you the most?

Anastacia: They help me in numerous ways but one of my favorite things to do is to reread them when I need assurance that I am OK. I am wonderful. I have unseen talents and skills and most importantly—I am not a Black woman writing in the world alone. “

Christina Giarrusso 4/29/24 Christina Giarrusso 4/29/24

Review: Truth and Healing: Tatiana Johnson-Boria’s “Nocturne in Joy”

It’s time to get your Sticky Fingers on Livia Meneghin’s review of Nocturne in Joy by Tatiana Johnson-Boria: “Johnson-Boria acts as guide through personal and collective pasts, along the way honoring African-American literary luminaries such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton. Through a blend of experimental and traditional forms, Johnson-Boria creates space for play while readers process complex emotions surrounding mental health, family dynamics, and societal systems of oppression, all the while finding healing.”

Dorothy Chan 11/16/23 Dorothy Chan 11/16/23

Craft Essay: “Allow Me To Speak My Palestinian Tongue” by Noor Shami

"Poetry is an olive tree — wisdom, fertility, prosperity — following life then death and everything in between."

Dorothy Chan 6/21/23 Dorothy Chan 6/21/23

Interview with Jameka Williams on American Sex Tape™

Jameka Williams’s debut poetry collection, American Sex Tape™, winner of the University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham Prize, is an American pop culture critique, a moving exploration of how social media and capitalism impact one’s sense of self, and an insightful showcase of what occurs when the voyeur becomes the subject. In our conversation, we discuss the collection’s unforgettable title, the Kardashians, writing about Blackness, and so much more.

Dorothy Chan 11/10/22 Dorothy Chan 11/10/22

Interview with Courtney Faye Taylor on Concentrate

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Courtney Faye Taylor’s debut poetry collection, Concentrate, is an ingenious palimpsest of the past and the present.

Dorothy Chan 11/2/22 Dorothy Chan 11/2/22

Running From or Running Towards Something: The Endless Volta of I.S. Jones’ Spells of My Name (Newfound)

Essays Editor Aja St. Germaine and Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Dorothy Chan sat down with the lovely I.S. Jones to discuss her chapbook, Spells of My Name (Newfound).

Dorothy Chan 9/6/22 Dorothy Chan 9/6/22

Interview with Sumita Chakraborty on Arrow

In this edition of Sticky Fingers, Interviews Editor Zakiya Cowan speaks with Sumita Chakraborty about her debut poetry collection, Arrow.

Dorothy Chan 8/22/22 Dorothy Chan 8/22/22

Words Gilded in Gold: Aimee Seu’s Luxuriously Tender Velvet Hounds

In this blunt-chic edition of Sticky Fingers, Aimee Seu discusses literary hybridity, maternal influences, and exuberant fashion with Honey intern Aja St. Germaine then reads “Ode to Pomegranates” from her collection, Velvet Hounds.

Dorothy Chan 4/23/22 Dorothy Chan 4/23/22

Interview with Jane Wong on How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

In this edition of Sticky Fingers, Jane Wong reads “MAD” from How to Not Be Afraid of Everything and then talks with Editor in Chief Dorothy Chan about this remarkable poem and all things Eastern Zodiac.