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Puppy cloaked in man skin. A and B and Also Nothing @unboundedition.bsky.social Windows 85 (Roof Books) VHS @clashbooks.bsky.social north by north/west @wvupress.bsky.social & Drift Net @leverpress.bsky.social chriscampanioni.com ⚡️

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RSVP & Zoom links below (I believe the event will also be recorded) ❤️‍🔥⚡️

https://events.humanitix.com/queens-poetry-symposium-bilingual-poetry-reading

https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/queens-poetry-symposium/016825-0525

14.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A fantastic event at the Queens Public Library with Chris Campanioni!! His work is diverse, vibrant, and engaging—check out North by North/west on our website.

14.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

25.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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24.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

“If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?” @nicksturm.bsky.social in @defector.com https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry

30.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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flashback to my glitch-ridden (intentional & inadvertent) performance at @derridatoday.bsky.social at the University of Athens ⚡️🤖🏄🏼This summer is in Paris. CFP here: https://derridatoday.com.au/conference/

30.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Spell of Exile - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

“On the morning I turned forty, I woke early, compelled to write—not to preserve the past, but to reshape it.”

From “The Spell of Exile” new Essay by Chris Campanioni (@chriscampanioni.bsky.social).

theoffingmag.com/essay/the-sp...

26.09.2025 12:38 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Spell of Exile - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

On the morning I turned 40, I wrote about my defective body, the spell of exile, childhood & fatherhood, the future interrupting the past, the making of a book to be a movie, & the conditions through which I learned to become a writer ⚡️📼 now available for all in @theoffingmag.bsky.social

25.09.2025 22:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

grateful to be gathered in celebration ❤️‍🔥📚

18.09.2025 01:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Book Review: Anthony Borruso Reads Chris Campanioni’s Hybrid Text north by north/west Despite its directional title, Chris Campanioni’s hybrid text north by north/west: (an attention to frequency) is a virtuosic linguistic collage that, more often than not, indulges in indirection a…

Still savoring every sentence of this luscious reading of north by north/west by @introspectiveant.bsky.social in Heavy Feather Review // with love & gratitude to the team @wvupress.bsky.social for bringing this “video diary” life ⚡️📼 https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/08/13/north-by-north-west/

15.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️‍🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/

12.08.2025 01:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Fixed it for him:

"Last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because I, as governor, showered luxury developers with tax breaks, cut NYCHA funding, gutted rent laws, blocked tenant protections, and oversaw the loss of 150k+ affordable units."

08.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 658    🔁 213    💬 15    📌 2
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Body/Work: A Correspondence Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further south, on Foster Avenue, perhaps on his way…

New at true! Writers Chris Campanioni and Richard Scott Larson discuss the processes of their memoirs, touching on topics such as the secrecy of observation, fluidity versus intentional disruption of time in narrative, and horror films as comfort and also construct. buff.ly/zfVZX3r

08.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Alumnus Reframes Migration as a Creative Force in Literature and Media Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in "Drift Net."

"Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in DRIFT NET": Check out this interview with DRIFT NET author @chriscampanioni.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social here: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

31.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Chris Campanioni and his new book, "Drift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration"

Chris Campanioni and his new book, "Drift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration"

Alumnus Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in his new book "Drift Net" www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

30.07.2025 12:03 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

what a reading list for a summer of resistance & hope! thank you @wendyjfox.bsky.social for reading north by north/west @wvupress.bsky.social & gathering us @electricliterature.com ❤️‍🔥⚡️

07.07.2025 13:53 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open.

Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline.

Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions

29.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 47    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
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Haitian national in ICE custody passes away Consistent with ICE policy, ERO Miami notified the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Inspector General, and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility via the Integrity Coordinati...

It's not just the raids--- people are dying while in ICE custody, and we need to pay attention to this.

A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".

www.ice.gov/news/release...

17.06.2025 18:09 — 👍 647    🔁 316    💬 18    📌 8
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purely temporary "purely temporary" from the book north by north/west by Chris Campanioni. Available from West Virginia University Press. Learn more here: https://wvupressonline.com/node/987

👋🏽 Chris Campanioni here, sharing an adaptation from my book north by north/west. There’s doubling, duplicates, fakes, & remakes; carbon copies (CCs) abound. This 🎥 is called “purely temporary” & I hope you enjoy it in your free time🍿

You can watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1092517734/8ed8505fd5

17.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey familia! I’m Chris Campanioni and my recent book of nonfiction north by north/west was published with West Virginia University Press just last month, on May 1, 2025.

16.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

thank you! @leverpress.bsky.social did wonders with my mood board ⚡️

10.06.2025 22:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a guidebook, an itinerary, a study that centers migrant creators & reveals how migration has shaped today’s digital norms & produced an avant-garde of art born in translation from @leverpress.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 @cunyenglish.bsky.social @paceuniversity.bsky.social & all my students

10.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2
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DRIFT NET by @chriscampanioni.bsky.social is now available to read online! Campanioni theorizes literature and art produced through experiences of migration, detention, and exile in this remarkable book. Start reading here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... @paceuniversity.bsky.social

10.06.2025 15:29 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

a panel about writers who draw from other art forms and mediums to compose alphabetical text. movies, music, painting, et cetera. who would like to join ? AWP conjuring 💭🏄‍♀️

09.06.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to Reuben Gelley Newman(@joustingsnail.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry!

13.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2

Wonderful company with which to share this honor @triohousepress.org

10.05.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s pub day for north by north/west, out now from the fabulous team @wvupress.bsky.social … scroll thru for some v generous reflections on my latest book from Christine Hume, @richardscottlarson.com & Eric Dean Wilson ❤️‍🔥⚡️📖 https://wvupressonline.com/north-by-north-west

01.05.2025 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

“Stop Screaming—It’s Me” is an all-time great almost title

22.04.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Graphic showing a stock chart plunging and a man in distress. Text reads

Tesla quarterly earnings call happy hour
Hosted by the teenagers
Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle
Tues April 22 5:30p

Graphic showing a stock chart plunging and a man in distress. Text reads Tesla quarterly earnings call happy hour Hosted by the teenagers Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle Tues April 22 5:30p

Reminder Seattle friends: come celebrate the Tesla quarterly earnings with us tomorrow night at Pine Box and meet more local @troublemakers.bsky.social!

22.04.2025 03:14 — 👍 219    🔁 44    💬 10    📌 11
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thank you @wendyjfox.bsky.social for this sensitive & gorgeous reading of VHS @clashbooks.bsky.social & for gathering these books to get lost in (& maybe find yourself) this spring ⚡️🏄🏼🌺 @electricliterature.com https://electricliterature.com/11-small-press-books-you-should-be-reading-this-spring/

21.04.2025 22:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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