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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🌊 Currents ⚡ Archipel Prompt #4 Self-Portrait Generator A self-portrait written through weather. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/publish/post... #ArchipelCurrents #poetry

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🤝 COMMUNITY “It goes beyond talking about writing to talking about living.” A reflection on mentorship, conversation, and the ways writing grows within community. 🔗 Read Isaiah Adepoju’s reflection on Archipel: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetrycommunity #mentorship #writers

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🛠 CRAFT “Much of writing about joy seems to be about inhabiting that space of knowledge.” From DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju. 🔗 Read: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetry #literarymentorship #Currents #DEWScholarship

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📖 New on #Archipel DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on grief, joy, and the conversations that shape a poet’s craft. 🔗 Read the reflection: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetry #Currents #DEWScholarship #LiteraryMentorship

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

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. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

📷 Residencies. Exhibitions. Festivals. Manuscripts. The daily labour behind the visible moment. Art doesn’t appear. It accumulates. @growmercy.bsky.social @nancychristie.bsky.social 📷 carawaterfall.substack.com/.../from-the.... #CreativeProcess #StudioLife #LiteraryCommunity #ArtPractice #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Books expanding their reach this month — from new editions to forthcoming releases. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a... #NewBooks #SmallPress #WritersCommunity #BookNews #IndependentPublishing #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Recognition across the #Archipel this month — prizes, lists, and milestones worth pausing for. @ZainabBobi @isjonespoetry @VictorIhechilu1 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a... #LiteraryAwards #PoetryCommunity #IndependentPress #CreativeCommunity #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Some words don’t live in dictionaries. They live in people. 🌀 prompt 3 is open. 🌊 read / write with us: carawaterfall.substack.com/.../prompt-3.... #writingprompt #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #ambianceur #creativepractice #writerscircle #currents #archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

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 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime... #Longform #Currents #PersonalEssay #cotedivoire #abidjan

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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 🌊 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime... #Abidjan #CotedIvoire #PersonalEssay #Currents #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“I feel a gravitational pull to art—” 🧲✨ Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a... #PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura 🕯️ A conversation on art, ritual, and connection. 🔗https://carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-asakura #Archipel #PoetryCommunity

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

On slowness. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/learning-a...

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Poetry is the only genre that understands my heart and translates my heartbeat onto the pages." 💓📝 🌊 Read more about Victor, the poet as archivist: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-... #currents #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🌊 "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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Côte d’Ivoire 3–0. Coup de marteau everywhere. I wrote about the noise, the joy, the elephant in the room. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🐘 CAN season. The elephant is back in the room. New on Archipel: writing from inside the noise. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha... #AFCON2025 #CôtedIvoire #Abidjan #FootballCulture #WestAfrica #CulturalWriting

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🌊 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. 📝🔍 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm... #PoetryCraft #Archipel #Currents 🌊

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🌊 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. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm... #poetry #mentorship #Currents #DEWScholar

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🎭 “Binda turns everyday language into theatre — bold, absurd, brilliant.” Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🎧 “Nash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.” Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

⚡ “Nouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.” Full profile ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🗣 “My words are built to tear down walls.” — Henri-Michel Yéré See the bilingual feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #HenriMichelYere #Nouchi #Poetry #Abidjan #Archipel #Currents

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🍲 “Forty-eight hours without grub, and we could drop at any second.” — Kapegik, Mort Subite Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq ✨ All misfires belong to the translator; all brilliance to the author. #Kapegik #Nouchi #IvorianLiterature #Abidjan

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🌆🗣️ 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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🌿 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 🌱

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🌊 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 🌀

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🌊 📚 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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🌊 #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

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

✨ New on #Archipel — The Small Work of Staying Reflections from Abidjan on creative continuity, daily gestures, and how we hold steady in changing times. Read: tinyurl.com/3h4469w7 #PoetryCommunity #TheSmallWorkOfStaying #WestAfricanPoetry #CreativeMentorship

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"To write is to build home inside language." Meet Nigerian poet & essayist Joel Oyèlékè, 📖 author of God Is a Poet (Faithful Global Publications, 2024). Read The Philosopher-Poet in #Archipel Interview #28: 28https://tinyurl.com/bd4sx2h6 #NigerianPoet #PoetryOfPlace #CreativeCommunity

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Nigerian poet Joel Oyèlékè writes where devotion becomes craft — where scripture and streetlight meet. Read his story in Archipel: tinyurl.com/bd4sx2h6 #Archipel #CurrentsVoicesInMotion #FaithAndArt #PoetryCommunity #NigerianPoet

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Archipel Alumni #2: 5 writers making waves: Featuring: @kimfahner.bsky.social, @robmclennan.bsky.social, Virginia Ryan, @kevinspenst.bsky.social & Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Read, respond, relay → tinyurl.com/zc836xnf #Poetry #CreativeCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In Abidjan, the city writes itself. Every gbaka—our shared minibus—is a poem in motion: Respect Obligé. Y’a Dieu Dedans. Turbo. I call it **Gbaka Grammar**—Abidjan’s rolling archive of belief, hustle & humour. 🌊 Read the essay → tinyurl.com/ddfjk425 #Abidjan #PoetryOfPlace #CotedIvoire

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🌊 Currents Prompt #1 — Gbaka Grammar

A writing prompt from Abidjan’s rolling archives: slogans, codes, and road-borne syntax on the city’s shared minibuses.

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Year Two starts now 🌊 Support the DEW Scholarship—and celebrate our inaugural scholar Isaiah Adepoju — by: 💳 subscribing, 🔁 sharing, or ✉️ emailing to underwrite a need. Give an emerging poet a community & a compass 🧭.” Begin here: carawaterfall.substack.com/subscribe #Poetry #ArtsSupport #Mentorship

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Introducing our 1st DEW Scholar: Isaiah Adepoju: “The least I expect is to win anything for poetry—I am still shocked.” Our Judges: "Not ornament for its own sake, but cadence as a path to understanding." Celebrate with us & read more: tinyurl.com/4eu52e2f #Poetry #Mentorship #EmergingPoets

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Announcing the Winner of the Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund: Isaiah Adepoju

Proof that every gift and gesture adds up to a big year for our first DEW Scholar.

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🔬✍🏾 Med student → poet at the edge of language: **@ademindpoems**. Read the **Currents** feature: tinyurl.com/yzw7uhcr If language falters, Adesiyan Oluwapelumi’s lines keep vigil.

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#27: Faith, Memory, Fire: A Conversation with Adesiyan Oluwapelumi

A featured poet in Archipel’s new series, 🌊 Currents: Voices in Motion, spotlighting emerging West African voices.

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🌊 New on Archipel: Currents launches: mentorship & multilingual poetics—plus a feature on Adesiyan Oluwapelumi's Mouthful of Cinders (@akashicbooks.bsky.social/APBF, Dec 2025). Read: tinyurl.com/yzw7uhcr #PoetryCommunity #NigerianPoetry #AfricanPoetry #Chapbook

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Travel was Elizabeth Jaeger’s pulse—6 continents, countless blog posts, always writing on the move. Then the world stopped moving. Out of lockdown & grief came Stolen. Read our Archipel interview → tinyurl.com/3skhrcfx #WritersOfBsky #TravelWriting #COVIDMemoir

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New in Archipel: a dialogue with Elizabeth Jaeger on loss, persistence & memory. Her memoir Stolen is part diary, part testimony — a record of grief & resilience in the time of COVID. @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social Read→ tinyurl.com/3skhrcfx #Poetry #WritersOfBsky #GriefLit #COVID19 #YearOfTheWomxn

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#26: Love, Loss & the Pages We Keep: A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger

"The more I write, the more I record, the more that I'll be able to remember in the future."

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I spent the summer writing poems & came back to Côte d’Ivoire full of pages. Two weeks into la rentrée & I already need another holiday. 😅 Excited to announce the first Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund recipient soon! Until then… mountain nap. 💤 👉 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/sept-2025-...

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🐍 In #MotherViper, snakes — once symbols of sin in my faith — became power, freedom, rebirth.” Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c #poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Elena Barcia’s masterful translation of Chilean poet Malú Urriola's brilliant collection, EXQUISITE CORPSE @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social out July 15! Her work blends surrealism, Dadaist experimentation & personal reflection. tinyurl.com/yc8fns26#Poe... #WomenInTranslation #YearofWomxn

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

6th-grade poetry workshop ✍️ where students found their wild selves through verse. 🐘🦁🪳Turns out 12-year-olds have a lot to teach us about authenticity & creative expression. Read more: : tinyurl.com/ydzbkjkw #Poetry #Teaching #CreativeWriting #Education #WritingCommunity

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

📢 Applications close in 3 DAYS for the Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund! ✍️ 1-year poetry mentorship program 🌏 Open worldwide to poets 18+ 💫 Distinguished judges: @robmclennan & @salimaTM Apply by June 15th (midnight UTC): bit.ly/4k2u7U5 #Poetry #Writers #LiteraryMentorship

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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📚 Powerful and unflinching, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi's "Uncensored Snapshots" bears witness to Northern 🇳🇬's ongoing crisis through masterful poetry. A vital collection that challenges systemic silence while documenting history. Read more: tinyurl.com/6m6w9kxd Available now: tinyurl.com/yrtz7fvt

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