🌊 Currents

⚡ Archipel Prompt #4
Self-Portrait Generator

A self-portrait written through weather.

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#ArchipelCurrents #poetry

🤝 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

🛠 CRAFT

“Much of writing about joy seems to be about inhabiting that space of knowledge.”

From DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju.

🔗 Read:
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#poetry #literarymentorship #Currents #DEWScholarship

📖 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

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...

📷 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:
carawaterfall.substack.com/.../prompt-3....

#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

🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime...

#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 🌊
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime...
#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.

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

"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

"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.

carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...

🐘 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

🌊 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 🌊

🌊 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

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 ↓

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#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 🌱