Chel Campbell

Repeat after me: Your body is not your enemy.

Your body is what helps you get around.

Your body is what helps you enjoy the world around you.

Your body is what you use to draw a cool S

This is so unintentionally unsettling lmao

lmao at me, feeling like a boomer for including the screenshot and not the actual image. oh well, i'm keeping it. follow MEMEZINE on ig, there it is.

Slightly diminish a book.

None Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 🥲

I ordered some! Thanks so much!

"Fact Checking" by Amy DeBellis — MEMEZINE “Fact Checking”

This flash fiction piece by @amykdebellis.bsky.social hits hard. Read here and get into itttt
www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...

certified banger

I’m late to celebrating on here BUT I couldn’t be more thrilled about my first BOTN nomination! Thank you @wildroofjournal.bsky.social 🫶🏻

“Vibe physics”

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

Embrace your cheap, tacky side.

I’m experimenting with anti-aesthetic, or purposeful imperfectionism. It’s my small, human response to eerily perfect AI art so devoid of soul.

This piece is inspired by all the poorly-made, overpriced housing that’s popping up all over my city. I made it from a local magazine and thrifted beads.

Gonna say something liberals really won’t like and it’s that you’re going to have to find it in your heart to feel compassion for and attempt to help ppl in crisis whose politics you may not agree with or else you’re gonna become the very thing you claim to hate

Yikes!

So excited that my collage became the cover of this gorgeous issue! Thank you @aaronlelito.bsky.social!

I’m so stoked to read these submissions. Send us words so fire that they can melt 🧊 and burn a tėslä 🫶🏻

FernGully director: ok we have this kids movie about a fairy and a human guy trying to save the rainforest. Also Robin Williams is a bat

Tim Curry: I’m going to sing the sexiest villain song ever as a sexy sludge guy and also say I’m horny in the song

director: ok you know what sure why not

It'll never stop making me feel insane that writers are made to feel crazy for appropriately valuing their craft while guys who haven't written an email on their own in three years are painting themselves as essential to the future

Thank you for reading!

Thank you @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving my CNF a home. It’s a deeply personal flash on motherhood, nature, and violence.

Thank you for reading 🫶🏻

Shoutout to Joel for solving homophobia with violence

black ice tree shaped air freshener

yeah i believe in essential oils

hate to say it but cutting back on substances has helped my creativity return 🫣

There are enough microplastics in your brain to make an entire spoon There isn't yet research on how to remove microplastics already in our bodies, but there are a few ways we can limit exposure.

"I don't have the spoons." Bullshit. You have at least one spoon.

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Went to text my poet group chat and accidentally gave Jeffrey Goldberg the scoop on the moon

Two small plastic pots containing ~six-inch tall bay laurel plants

these ones are for all the bay leaf truthers

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

I feel like I should be a poet who smokes a lot of cigarettes, but I quit smoking before I became a poet. Huge missed opportunity.

INTERVIEWER And how do you approach syntax now? PHILLIPS Well, syntax is the thing that allows for manipulation in a sentence, in a way that grammar doesn't. Syntax allows us to move blocks of text around, stall the delivery of information, establish hierarchies. Its ability to give only so much, then to switch directions, teasing the sentence out— that's like foreplay. You decide when you'll draw the readers in, and when you'll release them, and for how long. And just when they think they've been released, you can bring them back in again. To me this is very erotic. It's like seeing someone across the room and deciding you want him. First you have to get his attention, then you need to hold it and draw him closer to you. I often describe poems as little systems of restraint and release. The prioritizing of, say, noun clauses over verbs, withholding the action, the crux of the sentence, establishes a power structure-though which has more power, the prioritized noun or the verb shrouded in mystery? It's a bit like the ambiguity that hovers over the power dynamic in BDSM-who actually has power, and who just appears to? And that's so much of what eros is, as well. INTERVIEWER Sometimes the endings of your poems don't feel like closures but like juncture points. There's no hard click, just a gesture toward a continuous inquiring. PHILLIPS Yes, a constant pushing toward and into what isn't known. I'm not able to write toward a known subject. I'm often in a situation that I think would be

“Well, syntax is the thing that allows for manipulation in a sentence, in a way that grammar doesn't […] To me this is very erotic. It's like seeing someone across the room and deciding you want him.”

Carl Phillips, Paris Review #Syntax