Longlisted Poem: “The Commandment of Rainbow”
Obaji Godwin’s poems have appeared in Jaylit, Tough Poets Review, Kaleidoscope III, Kalahari Review, Teambooktu, Tuck magazine, Ebedi Review, and in Soil Unfurling From Stem: An Anthology From Sub-Saharan Africa (edited by Bridgette James). He won the 2017 Uganda Babishaiku Prize, as well as the 2018 Uganda Babishainiwe Poetry Prize. He’s a two-time winner of the POETREE Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for 2025 KAPP and 2025 Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize. His poems diagnose grief and cast conduits for its banishment.