Pages Matam is an international artist, writer, event coordinator, & educator from Cameroon, Central Africa, currently residing in Washington D.C. He is Director of Poetry Events for Busboys and Poets, Callaloo Fellow, and author of the award winning full length collection The Heart of a Comet (Write Bloody, 2014). A polyglot National poetry slam champion and National Fair Housing Alliance Cultural Ambassador, he has been featured on various renowned platforms and venues such as the NAACP, The Guardian & Google Voices, Huffington, Okay Africa, Macy’s, the Kennedy Center, the Apollo Theater, BET Lyric Cafe, TV One’s Verses & Flow, and more. During the day he is turning poems into scripts and collaborating on creative and holistic healing spaces. At night (and also during the day) He is a proud gummy bear elitist, professional hugger, anime fanatic, kink and bdsm enthusiast and plantain connoisseur, who is interested in three things: securing a capitalism free bag, minding my own business, and making whiteness and white people uncomfortable .  www.pagesmatam.com