An anthology by and for living African poets means celebrating the current moment, the lush and vibrant landscape of what African poetics is negotiating, while also looking back and paying homage to the great writers who walked.
An anthology by and for living African poets means celebrating the current moment, the lush and vibrant landscape of what African poetics is negotiating, while also looking back and paying homage to the great writers who walked.
The 20.35 Africa team is looking for two editorial interns to join our team. While the first internship is for a graphic designer, we will prioritize applicants who are passionate about poetry or literature. The second intern will work with our editor, Portia Opare in handling the Conversations series and must be passionate about contemporary poetry.
With no orientation on what contemporary African poetry means to us all in this age, we remain ungrounded as readers and scholars. As such, 20.35 Africa’s Interview Series will provide an engaging space for stakeholders of contemporary African poetry to help shape the production of a relevant body of knowledge on the criticism of African poetry.
Since its inception in 2017, the 20.35 Africa collective has annually published an electronic Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry. The fifth volume will be guest-edited by Sara Elkamel and Chibuihe Obi alongside the collective’s editors: Ebenezer Agu, I.S. Jones, and Precious Okpechi.
On the heels of the third volume of 20.35 Africa’s annual poetry anthology comes the New Poets series, a monthly series that provides individual visibility to contemporary African poets, prioritizing poets living on the continent. Each month, 20.35 Africa editors will choose a poet to be featured on our website and promote their writing through a targeted social media campaign for the duration of the month.
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