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Cara Waterfall
@carawaterfall.bsky.social
🇨🇦 🇨🇮 Poet, storyteller & mentor teaching writers how to sustain thriving, creative practices. Author, Radiant Wound @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
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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
🌿 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
🌊 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
🌊 📚 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
🌊 #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
✨ 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
"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
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
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
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
🌊 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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October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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
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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September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🔬✍🏾 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.
#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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September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🌊 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
September 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
#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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September 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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-...
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🐍 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
August 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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
June 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📢 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
June 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
📚 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
June 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🎉 The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund is Accepting Applications! Deadline June 1st!
✨ Key Details: Open worldwide to poets 18+ writing in English; Deadline: June 1, 2025 (UTC)
Apply now: bit.ly/4k2u7U5
#PoetryMentorship #CreativeWriting #LiteraryArts #PoetsCommunity
May 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@michaelimossan.bsky.social's poetry profoundly articulates Nigerian identity, transforming multiple inner voices into a unified chorus. In "For the Love of Country & Memory," he seamlessly bridges personal experience & national consciousness.
bit.ly/3SaeihY
#NigerianPoetry #WritingCommunity
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"I learned to work with fear, to listen to the noise within me and make music out of it" — @michaelimossan.bsky.social discusses creative challenges & transformation in my latest interview: bit.ly/3SaeihY
The Smell of Absence is available this December! 🌟📚 #Poetry #WritingCommunity #NigerianPoet
April 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Following the bold path of her dream mentor Marina Abramovic, Sharmila Nezovic becomes a living "360-degree canvas." Her performances transform abstract concepts into visceral experiences that demand attention. 🎭
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#PerformanceArt #ContemporaryArt #LiveArt #AustralianArt
April 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM