@carawaterfall
🇨🇦 🇨🇮 Poet, storyteller & mentor teaching writers how to sustain thriving, creative practices. Author, Radiant Wound @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social Join the Archipel Community! https://carawaterfall.substack.com/
📖 New on #Archipel
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on grief, joy, and the conversations that shape a poet’s craft.
🔗 Read the reflection:
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#poetry #Currents #DEWScholarship #LiteraryMentorship
From the Archipel Orbit: this week's final dispatch:
@nadinearaksi.bsky.social series 12 Permission Slips I Needed in 2025 offers luminous reflections on rest, healing,and reclaiming herself after burnout.
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📷 Residencies. Exhibitions. Festivals. Manuscripts. The daily labour behind the visible moment.
Art doesn’t appear. It accumulates. @growmercy.bsky.social @nancychristie.bsky.social
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#CreativeProcess #StudioLife #LiteraryCommunity #ArtPractice #Archipel
Books expanding their reach this month — from new editions to forthcoming releases.
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#NewBooks #SmallPress #WritersCommunity #BookNews #IndependentPublishing #Archipel
Recognition across the #Archipel this month — prizes, lists, and milestones worth pausing for.
@ZainabBobi @isjonespoetry @VictorIhechilu1
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#LiteraryAwards #PoetryCommunity #IndependentPress #CreativeCommunity #Archipel
Some words don’t live in dictionaries.
They live in people. 🌀
prompt 3 is open. 🌊
read / write with us:
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#writingprompt #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #ambianceur #creativepractice #writerscircle #currents #archipel
My Ivorian driver’s license is valid for life.
One of the few documents that assumes I’ll stay.
🌊 A Lifetime Ivorian Driver’s License
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#Longform #Currents #PersonalEssay #cotedivoire #abidjan
My driver’s test in Abidjan took place in an abandoned football field. A small story about language, permission, and the systems that decide when we belong.
✦ A Lifetime Ivorian Driver’s License 🌊
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#Abidjan #CotedIvoire #PersonalEssay #Currents #Archipel
“I feel a gravitational pull to art—” 🧲✨
Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a...
#PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel
Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura 🕯️
A conversation on art, ritual, and connection.
🔗https://carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-asakura
#Archipel #PoetryCommunity
On slowness.
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"Poetry is the only genre that understands my heart and translates my heartbeat onto the pages." 💓📝 🌊
Read more about Victor, the poet as archivist:
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#currents #Archipel
"My work reflects the socio-political condition of Nigerians… and what we, as Igbos, are known for." 🇳🇬✊🏾
~ Victor Unachukwu 🌿
🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #IgboPoet
🌊 "Archiving these stories for the next generation to read, for me, stands as a lasting legacy." 📚✨" 📚✨
Full profile: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #PoetryAsWitness
Côte d’Ivoire 3–0.
Coup de marteau everywhere.
I wrote about the noise, the joy, the elephant in the room.
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🐘 CAN season. The elephant is back in the room. New on Archipel: writing from inside the noise.
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#AFCON2025 #CôtedIvoire #Abidjan #FootballCulture #WestAfrica #CulturalWriting
🌊 Craft is the work beneath the work. 🎨✨
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on the lessons he's learning as he puts together his first creative writing workshop. 📝🔍
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#PoetryCraft #Archipel #Currents 🌊
🌊 New on #Archipel:
Craft · Community · Visibility
A mentorship reflection centering the voice of DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju — on making the work, building community and learning how to be seen.
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#poetry #mentorship #Currents #DEWScholar
Highlighting Groundwork 🩵📃 — the generative writing workshop co-founded by Elena Sénéchal-Becker & Knowah Holder.
Writing toward new queer futures. ✨
More → carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s...
#Groundwork #QueerWriters #Archipel
New on #Archipel 🌿
A conversation with **Elena Sénéchal-Becker** ✨ on care, design, queer lineage, and writing as refuge. ✍️
Read → carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s...
#Currents #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity
🎭 “Binda turns everyday language into theatre — bold, absurd, brilliant.”
Full feature ↓
👉 tr.ee/77Qacq
#BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
🎧 “Nash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.”
Full feature ↓
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#Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
⚡ “Nouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.”
Full profile ↓
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#Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
🗣 “My words are built to tear down walls.” — Henri-Michel Yéré
See the bilingual feature ↓
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#HenriMichelYere #Nouchi #Poetry #Abidjan #Archipel #Currents
🍲 “Forty-eight hours without grub, and we could drop at any second.” — Kapegik, Mort Subite
Full feature ↓
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✨ All misfires belong to the translator; all brilliance to the author.
#Kapegik #Nouchi #IvorianLiterature #Abidjan
🌆🗣️ New: Nouchi 101
A deep dive into Abidjan’s living language — a tongue shaped by the street, by history, by humor, by refusal.
I also spotlight 5 artists who bend language toward something electric and alive.
Full post ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq
#Nouchi #CotedIvoire #UrbanPoetics #Archipel #LivingLanguages
🌿 New in #Archipel | #Currents 📣 Pamilerin Jacob’s chapbooks trace the interior shifts that shape a life into art. 🗺️🫶
Read Cordial With Disillusionment for free & you can also donate to a stellar poet, editor & community builder! 🎁🇳🇬 tr.ee/MhsaRw 🔗
#NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet 🌱
🌊 New in #Archipel | #Currents 📣
Pamilerin Jacob says his art is “a transliteration of the subconscious” — a way to carry interior life into language without losing its pulse. ❤️🔥
Read the full feature here: tr.ee/MhsaRw 🔗
#NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet #NaijaPoetry #AfricanPoetry #PoetryCommunity 🌀
🌊 📚 Before it was a book, #TheRacialImaginary began as a public exchange — a collective act of noticing how imagination is shaped by history.
✍️ I explores how imagination isn't neutral in my latest #Archipel post: tr.ee/V4KNhY
#Poetry #ClaudiaRankine #BethLoffreda #ArtsAndEquity #Currents
🌊 #Currents Prompt #2: The Syllabus Is Flammable
What happens if we stop worshipping the canon and start rewriting it? 🔥 Write your own controlled burn.
Read + respond on #Archipel: tr.ee/SiFyQP
#PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompt #ControlledBurn #Archipel #CraftTalk #Poetry #AmWriting