Callaloo occupies a singular position in the literary landscape: a journal founded to publish creative work by and critical studies of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora. Its pages have historically moved between poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, visual art, and scholarly essays, treating the Black world as both subject and method. For poets, this is not a themed contest or a one-off anthology but a sustained editorial project with a defined readership and an institutional memory. The journal's remit is expansive—life and culture in the Black world, wide-ranging cultural criticism—which means the poetry it publishes is read alongside criticism and visual art, not in isolation. General submissions for poetry are open from August 1, 2026 to May 1, 2027. There is no submission fee. Poets may submit no more than six poems at a time, all in a single document, with a maximum of twelve poems by an author per calendar year; additional poems, unless requested by an editor, are automatically declined. Manuscripts must be submitted as Word (.doc or .docx) or .rtf files. Identifying information—author's name, address, phone number, and email address—must not appear in the manuscript, the submission title, or the file name. This is a blind-review protocol, and it is enforced at the level of the file itself. The curatorial vision is one of range within a coherent tradition: work that engages the African Diaspora as lived experience, history, and ongoing intellectual project. Callaloo does not ask poets to explain or translate that context; it asks for poems that hold their own within a journal where criticism and creative work share the same table of contents. The absence of a prize or fee is not incidental—it signals a reading process oriented toward publication in a continuing journal rather than award-driven attention.