Third World Press releases riveting, literary anthology confronting the reality of HIV/AIDS.
February 16, 2007 (Press Release) --
The screech is so horrific your skin crawls, but the whispering stops and the voice of HIV/AIDS is finally heard. Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora is perhaps the first anthology of its kind to lend a poetic voice to the scourge of the modern world, one that goes beyond the raw empirical data so often associated with the language of this disease to speak from the soul.
“The writers and artists in this anthology tell us that we need to record HIV in a way that humanizes it and celebrates the living. All of the writers, in one way or the other, are teaching us that beauty lives in the ugly: in the terribly beautiful,” states the book’s introduction. "We wanted to take a different approach to see what kind of creativity comes about when dialoguing about the disease versus taking a critical or analytical approach. What you have is the human emotion side of it," adds Randall Horton, co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard.
Editors Horton, M.L. Hunter and Becky Thompson assemble established and emerging writers from around the globe, such as South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus; American Book Award and Pew Fellowship winner Lamont B. Steptoe; renowned poet and educator Tony Medina; and award-winning physician Dr. Carlos T. Mock, for this haunting collection of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction that paints living portraits of HIV/AIDS. These educational and inspirational stories of AIDS victims and the people who remember them are “…our contribution to intelligent discussion on the subject,” says Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, founder and president of Third World Press.
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with the HIV Youth Prevention Education Program (H.Y.P.E.) of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University to publish Fingernails Across the Chalkboard. The mission of the H.Y.P.E. program is to educate high school students, adult learners, and the local community through creative literacy programs. The collaboration between CDPH and H.Y.P.E. promotes the benefits of HIV/AIDS education through the arts.
Other writers included in this riveting anthology are Octavia McBride-Ahebee, Dike Okoro, Ebony Golden, Roy Jacobstein , Arisa White and many more.
Title: Fingernails Across the Chalkboard ISBN 0-88378-274-X
Editors: Randall Horton, M.L. Hunter and Price: $15.95
Becky Thompson Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction
Publication date: April 2007 208 pages, Paper
Publisher: Third World Press
“The writers and artists in this anthology tell us that we need to record HIV in a way that humanizes it and celebrates the living. All of the writers, in one way or the other, are teaching us that beauty lives in the ugly: in the terribly beautiful,” states the book’s introduction. "We wanted to take a different approach to see what kind of creativity comes about when dialoguing about the disease versus taking a critical or analytical approach. What you have is the human emotion side of it," adds Randall Horton, co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard.
Editors Horton, M.L. Hunter and Becky Thompson assemble established and emerging writers from around the globe, such as South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus; American Book Award and Pew Fellowship winner Lamont B. Steptoe; renowned poet and educator Tony Medina; and award-winning physician Dr. Carlos T. Mock, for this haunting collection of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction that paints living portraits of HIV/AIDS. These educational and inspirational stories of AIDS victims and the people who remember them are “…our contribution to intelligent discussion on the subject,” says Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, founder and president of Third World Press.
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with the HIV Youth Prevention Education Program (H.Y.P.E.) of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University to publish Fingernails Across the Chalkboard. The mission of the H.Y.P.E. program is to educate high school students, adult learners, and the local community through creative literacy programs. The collaboration between CDPH and H.Y.P.E. promotes the benefits of HIV/AIDS education through the arts.
Other writers included in this riveting anthology are Octavia McBride-Ahebee, Dike Okoro, Ebony Golden, Roy Jacobstein , Arisa White and many more.
Title: Fingernails Across the Chalkboard ISBN 0-88378-274-X
Editors: Randall Horton, M.L. Hunter and Price: $15.95
Becky Thompson Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction
Publication date: April 2007 208 pages, Paper
Publisher: Third World Press
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