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Cara Waterfall
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🇨🇦 🇨🇮 Poet, storyteller & mentor teaching writers how to sustain thriving, creative practices. Author, Radiant Wound @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
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Cara Waterfall @carawaterfall.bsky.social · Oct 1
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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“I feel a gravitational pull to art—” 🧲✨

Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a...

#PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura 🕯️

A conversation on art, ritual, and connection.

🔗https://carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-asakura

#Archipel #PoetryCommunity
February 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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On slowness.

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January 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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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:

carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...

#currents #Archipel
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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"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
January 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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🌊 "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
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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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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January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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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
January 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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🌊 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 🌊
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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🌊 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
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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🎭 “Binda turns everyday language into theatre — bold, absurd, brilliant.”

Full feature ↓

👉 tr.ee/77Qacq

#BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🎧 “Nash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.”

Full feature ↓
👉 tr.ee/77Qacq

#Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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⚡ “Nouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.”

Full profile ↓
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#Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🗣 “My words are built to tear down walls.” — Henri-Michel Yéré
See the bilingual feature ↓
👉 tr.ee/77Qacq
#HenriMichelYere #Nouchi #Poetry #Abidjan #Archipel #Currents
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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🍲 “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
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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🌆🗣️ 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
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🌿 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 🌱
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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🌊 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 🌀
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🌊 📚 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
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🌊 #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
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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✨ 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
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"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
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM