Poetry Expo 23
/ 28 February 2023
Climatopia: The Anthology of Climatophosis Digital Poetry
Poetry Expo 23
Climatopia is a multilingual digital ecopoetry anthology project created by Yohanna Joseph Waliya in 2023 at the University of Calabar, Calabar-Nigeria. Climatopia as a term is coined from two words: climate and utopia, meaning the climatic perception of perfect world as it is illustrated in the digital poetries across the world. This digital ecopoetry anthology project selects e-works across the globe that sensitize the global community about the danger of climate change and suggests artistic and poetic ways to fight it in accordance with diverse cultural belief systems as they correlate with African worldviews. They are still imploring e-poets to submit their best works to this global database. They are also sourcing works from mega databases and exhibiting them to the whole world.
Brought to you by https://yohannawaliya.github.io/climatopia_home.html
You can view more about the project here.
The project is part of the subtheme Sustainability.
Author
Yohanna Joseph Waliya
Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI (https://africanelit.org ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are: La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry) etc. He is also lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Calabar as well as a postgraduate student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. His research interests cover distant writing, Distant Reading, Digital Poetry, Metaversal literature, Twitterbot-poetry, Twitterature, Digital Humanities and Language Discourse.
