Sticky Fingers
Craving more honey? Welcome to Sticky Fingers, our special artist spotlight, where our Hive interviews authors on their recent and upcoming releases.
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Craving more honey? Welcome to Sticky Fingers, our special artist spotlight, where our Hive interviews authors on their recent and upcoming releases.
"Poetry is an olive tree — wisdom, fertility, prosperity — following life then death and everything in between."
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.
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.
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).
In this edition of Sticky Fingers, Interviews Editor Zakiya Cowan speaks with Sumita Chakraborty about her debut poetry collection, Arrow.
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.
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.
Muriel Leung talks with us about her latest book, IMAGINE US, THE SWARM, now out with Nightboat Books!
Divya Victor talks with us about her latest book, CURB, now out with Nightboat Books! Victor also reads “ARBOR/ARDOR” from her collection.
Our editors present the first interview at Sticky Fingers, with the amazing K-Ming Chang!