Home, Lineage, & (local) Remedies: A Poetry Panel & Community Gathering

✦ Host Publications and Torch Literary Arts are thrilled to celebrate the debut poetry collection local remedies by Chiagoziem Jideofor at the historic Antone's (Upstairs!)! Join us for a relaxed gathering and brunch-time conversation on home, lineage, and (local) remedies between poets Bianca Alyssa Pérez and Chiagoziem Jideofor, moderated by poet Laura Villareal. Expect giveaways, book signings, & small bites! <3

Chiagoziem Jideofor’s debut collection, local remedies, dismantles colonial histories and reshapes them. Exploring Igbo stories through memory, myth, and strangeness, Jideofor testifies to the nonlinear experience of trauma. What does it mean to process trauma as the child of parents who survived a war, a genocide? How do inherited wounds emerge unexpectedly in the body, in the mind, in a family? In local remedies, histories are refracted, and like sun through rain, these poems scatter a different light—one which illuminates our shared need for remedies, both old and new.

✦ Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
✦Torch Literary Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to publish and promote creative writing by Black women. They publish contemporary writing by emerging and experienced writers alike.

✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature.

✦ There will be small bites and light refreshments

✦ Health and safety note: masks are encouraged and will be provided.

✦ This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.

✦ Panelist bios ✦

Bianca Alyssa Pérez is a poet & educator born and raised in South Texas. Her chapbook, Gemini Gospel, was the winner of Host Publication's Chapbook Contest in Spring 2023. Bianca's debut poetry collection, snake breath, is the winner of Hub City Press' Deep Line Poetry Prize, selected by Jennifer Chang, and will be released Spring 2027.

Chiagoziem Jideofor is Queer and Igbo. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, The Lincoln Review, Passages North, Commonwealth’s ADDA, the minnesota review, Sho Poetry Journal, MAYDAY, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Info: Moderated by Laura Villareal

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Antone's Nightclub, 305 East 5th Street, Austin, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

Get App