Journal of African and African Diasporic Poetry

OMOBOLA OSAMOR welcomes new, hard-hitting ecopoetry collection Helen Moore has been writing eco-poetry long before the genre started attracting popular attention. She co-authored a bilingual poetry collection and three single-author eco-poetry collections. Her latest, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas (Palewell Press, 2026) comprises 67 poems, each a page in an unfolding story of a dying earth. Fossil fuels are the dominant cause of global warming, accounting for 89% of carbon dioxide emissions. Somalia and Ethiopia continue to suffer from multi-year severe droughts. Low-lying island nations like the Maldives continue to face increased sea level rises and ocean acidification. In Australia, unprecedented ocean warming has led to devastating mass coral bleaching events. From land subsidence caused by flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia, to the eroding ocean landscape of Alaska, USA, nowhere is spared. These poems are a call to action. Solastalgia . An emotional/existential distress caused ...

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems (40 lines of less) and short, micro or flash fiction and prose (100 words or less) on  African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility . We welcome submissions exploring any of the images, enslavement, issues, visa applications, deportations, time spent in immigration queues, triggers, drownings, borders you crossed, the histories and borders that crossed you, the causes, deaths, cases, brutalisation, armed conflict, lives, exploitation, hopes, births, dreams, criminalisations, demands, plundering, detentions, pillagings, realities, personal, familial, communal histories of migration, the effect that funding from the European Commission and others is having on how African refugees and migrants are being treated on the continent, in deserts, at borders, in camps, in slave markets, in mass graves, at sea, in informal refugee camps, in roadside graves, on barges, on the streets, in prisons, warehouses...