๐ Currents
โก Archipel Prompt #4
Self-Portrait Generator
A self-portrait written through weather.
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#ArchipelCurrents #poetry
Posts by Cara Waterfall
๐ค COMMUNITY
โIt goes beyond talking about writing to talking about living.โ
A reflection on mentorship, conversation, and the ways writing grows within community.
๐ Read Isaiah Adepojuโs reflection on Archipel:
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co...
#poetrycommunity #mentorship #writers
๐ CRAFT
โMuch of writing about joy seems to be about inhabiting that space of knowledge.โ
From DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju.
๐ Read:
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#poetry #literarymentorship #Currents #DEWScholarship
๐ New on #Archipel
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on grief, joy, and the conversations that shape a poetโs craft.
๐ 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...
๐ท Residencies. Exhibitions. Festivals. Manuscripts. The daily labour behind the visible moment.
Art doesnโt appear. It accumulates. @growmercy.bsky.social @nancychristie.bsky.social
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#CreativeProcess #StudioLife #LiteraryCommunity #ArtPractice #Archipel
Books expanding their reach this month โ from new editions to forthcoming releases.
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#NewBooks #SmallPress #WritersCommunity #BookNews #IndependentPublishing #Archipel
Recognition across the #Archipel this month โ prizes, lists, and milestones worth pausing for.
@ZainabBobi @isjonespoetry @VictorIhechilu1
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#LiteraryAwards #PoetryCommunity #IndependentPress #CreativeCommunity #Archipel
Some words donโt live in dictionaries.
They live in people. ๐
prompt 3 is open. ๐
read / write with us:
carawaterfall.substack.com/.../prompt-3....
#writingprompt #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #ambianceur #creativepractice #writerscircle #currents #archipel
My Ivorian driverโs license is valid for life.
One of the few documents that assumes Iโll stay.
๐ A Lifetime Ivorian Driverโs License
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#Longform #Currents #PersonalEssay #cotedivoire #abidjan
My driverโs test in Abidjan took place in an abandoned football field. A small story about language, permission, and the systems that decide when we belong.
โฆ A Lifetime Ivorian Driverโs License ๐
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#Abidjan #CotedIvoire #PersonalEssay #Currents #Archipel
โI feel a gravitational pull to artโโ ๐งฒโจ
Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a...
#PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel
Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura ๐ฏ๏ธ
A conversation on art, ritual, and connection.
๐https://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." ๐๐ ๐
Read more about Victor, the poet as archivist:
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #Archipel
"My work reflects the socio-political condition of Nigeriansโฆ and what we, as Igbos, are known for." ๐ณ๐ฌโ๐พ
~ Victor Unachukwu ๐ฟ
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#currents #IgboPoet
๐ "Archiving these stories for the next generation to read, for me, stands as a lasting legacy." ๐โจ" ๐โจ
Full profile: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #PoetryAsWitness
Cรดte dโIvoire 3โ0.
Coup de marteau everywhere.
I wrote about the noise, the joy, the elephant in the room.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
๐ CAN season. The elephant is back in the room. New on Archipel: writing from inside the noise.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
#AFCON2025 #CรดtedIvoire #Abidjan #FootballCulture #WestAfrica #CulturalWriting
๐ Craft is the work beneath the work. ๐จโจ
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on the lessons he's learning as he puts together his first creative writing workshop. ๐๐
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#PoetryCraft #Archipel #Currents ๐
๐ New on #Archipel:
Craft ยท Community ยท Visibility
A mentorship reflection centering the voice of DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju โ on making the work, building community and learning how to be seen.
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#poetry #mentorship #Currents #DEWScholar
Highlighting Groundwork ๐ฉต๐ โ the generative writing workshop co-founded by Elena Sรฉnรฉchal-Becker & Knowah Holder.
Writing toward new queer futures. โจ
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#Groundwork #QueerWriters #Archipel
New on #Archipel ๐ฟ
A conversation with **Elena Sรฉnรฉchal-Becker** โจ on care, design, queer lineage, and writing as refuge. โ๏ธ
Read โ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s...
#Currents #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity
๐ญ โBinda turns everyday language into theatre โ bold, absurd, brilliant.โ
Full feature โ
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#BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
๐ง โNash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.โ
Full feature โ
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#Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
โก โNouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.โ
Full profile โ
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#Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
๐ฃ โMy words are built to tear down walls.โ โ Henri-Michel Yรฉrรฉ
See the bilingual feature โ
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#HenriMichelYere #Nouchi #Poetry #Abidjan #Archipel #Currents
๐ฒ โForty-eight hours without grub, and we could drop at any second.โ โ Kapegik, Mort Subite
Full feature โ
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โจ All misfires belong to the translator; all brilliance to the author.
#Kapegik #Nouchi #IvorianLiterature #Abidjan
๐๐ฃ๏ธ New: Nouchi 101
A deep dive into Abidjanโs living language โ 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 โ ๐ tr.ee/77Qacq
#Nouchi #CotedIvoire #UrbanPoetics #Archipel #LivingLanguages
๐ฟ New in #Archipel | #Currents ๐ฃ Pamilerin Jacobโs chapbooks trace the interior shifts that shape a life into art. ๐บ๏ธ๐ซถ
Read Cordial With Disillusionment for free & you can also donate to a stellar poet, editor & community builder! ๐๐ณ๐ฌ tr.ee/MhsaRw ๐
#NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet ๐ฑ