The Heart of a Comet

The Heart of a Comet is a collection of poems and short stories offering the tale of Comet, who fell from the sky to an unfamiliar plane of existence. On his quest to return home, he has many life-altering encounters that completely change his perspective of what it means to love and live.
Encountering these truths, the lines between dreams and reality tend to blur, creating a new mosaic in his ultimate revelation: the internal lesson of what finding purpose truly means. What are we here for? Why do we experience the things that we do, and why do we react to them in the ways that we do? 
All questions are posed with seemingly infinite answers. In this conceptual miscellany, author Pages Matam touches on topics of the immigrant experience to fatherhood, and love in all of its beautiful but also often tragically traumatic faces. As the tale unfolds, we become swallowed by a self-reflective journey with a destination that could only be sought from one's own soul-searching heart...the Heart of a Comet.

Pages Matam(They/He), is a genderqueer polyglot from Cameroon, Central Africa who blossomed in the DMV (not where you get your license, but DC, Murr'land & VA - Piscataway land). A fried plantains connoisseur, pleasure advocate and battle-horror anime fanatic, their background in poetry and spoken word has given them tools to grow into an agent of imagination as a med-school dropout turned award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and Drama TV/Film writer. PAGES employs elements of Central-African storytelling, folklore and their immigrant experience to tell dynamic stories in a poetic and magically surrealist way. Their work in poetry & screenwriting is guided by Toni Morrison's words: "the function of freedom is to free someone else" informed from a lens of Black Queer liberation. PAGES is a National Poetry Slam Champion, Callaloo fellow, NFHA Cultural Ambassador, a Google x The Guardian 2020 Rising Voices, recipient of DC Commission of Arts & Humanities fellowships, and currently works as a Lead Story Expert & script consultant at The Professional Pen. Additionally, they hold multiple screenwriting fellowships with: Amy Aniobi's TRIBE writers program by SUPER SPECIAL, Writers Discovery with Circle of Confusion, and Artist DISRUPTORS with the Center for Cultural Power.PAGES MATAM HAS WORK IN THE FIELD OF: Poetry & Spokenword, Screenwriting, Script Consulting, Hosting & Performance, Sensitivity Readings, Cultural Competency workshops, Creative Director, Editor, Educational Workshops.