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T134: Home Soon
Pick up T134 Home Soon, Transition’s newest issue featuring a stellar roster of debut and emerging writers. T134 includes stories by Jess Silfa, Zkara Gaillard, and Eviano George and poetry by Myronn Hardy, Adedayo Agarau and Clemonce Heard. Don’t miss essays on the rise of neo-fascism in the French Caribbean by Silyane Larcher and Amy Abugo Ongiri’s exploration of the African roots of Mambomania, as well as Bhakti Shringarpure’s illuminating interview with East African film directors, Lula Ali Ismail and Amil Shivji.
Home Soon takes its title from Taylor Byas’s poem “Re-narrativization,” in which the speaker chooses to call “the vague choreography” of vultures following her home “a halo.” At the end of the poem, the birds scatter as she declares her permanence. Ama Codjoe, in her experimental personal essay, finds the comforts of home in Little Africa in Paris, which is, at times, less than welcoming. In other work, like Zkara Gaillard’s story “A Good Word, “reality complicates the longing for home, or a home; see Panamanian artist Giana De Dier’s series of collages, “Home and Belonging: Contextualizing Ownership,” which explores the history of Panamanians of color displaced in the early 1900s by the segregation of the Canal Zone.
Join us for the launch of T134! Contributors will read from their work in the issue on September 14, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. Link to follow.
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