Jennifer Scappettone

It speaks for itself. (image courtesy of NY Times)

I am seriously impressed with Karyn Ball, the president of the American Comparative Literature Association who greeted its members thus in a time when we are being asked by administrators to "reimagine" the humanities in ways that will clearly decimate teaching of "foreign" languages & knowledges:

If you don't find this beating of a gardener and father of US service members horrifying you are not worthy of the label human.

Romeo’s eyes: Jennifer Scappettone

We continue thinking and doing through/vs the disasters & injustices. An exhibition of Exit 43 pop-up counterpastorals is now up in Kunstverein Munich—Many thanks to Vera Lutz and Simon Lässig and to curator Gloria Hasnay for the invitation to display these in dialogue with their show Romeo's Eyes.

Columbia University Press Fall 2025 Catalog In a precarious moment for academia, we are proud to announce the Fall 2025 Columbia catalog, which features books that show why the university press matters. These works exemplify our mission—to shar

Columbia UP’s fall catalog is out! See p. 57 for Poetry After Barbarism.

O the prophesies of Alice Notley that we’re rereading in advance of a special live session of my reading group for the overweening Emergency. Rest in anti-tyrannical power.

We of the republic of poetics are all lucky to have Sarah as reader!

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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On May 22nd at 8:30 in Amsterdam, Jennifer Scapettone will read from her forthcoming book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM and be in discussion w/ Mia You and Sara Giannini. tinyurl.com/5dd9h3uw @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Enormous brooding banner of Trump hung alongside Lincoln at Department of Agriculture X users are scoffing at the banner, saying it has a ‘North Korean aesthetic’ and gives off ‘Saddam Hussein vibes’

McDictator making his scowling way into your food

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A reading for our most cherished Lyn across all the languages this Saturday, on what would've been her 82nd birthday. I'd say far more but these tidbit, "pitch" formats are particularly unwelcoming for writers the likes of me—just come & hear her work as polyphony! www.facebook.com/events/13981...

The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931) «I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …

Soon we’ll have required oaths of allegiance to the regime. blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025) How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

Thanks to Juliana for this non-elegy on Joshua Clover's refusing to die.

You look just as you did several decades back, and radiant!

Thanks—psyched to have you as reader!

I would love to travel with these questions and these proposals; I hope I’ll have the chance to speak with some of you once it’s printed in August about how to get out of this mess with too-recent history as Virgil.

I regard this book as the most complete articulation of my work as a poet, translator, and scholar, the 3 inextricably pooling and complicating one another and, I hope, keeping each other alive.

On this May Day & during this week of further cruelty, violence, & devastating loss of those who regarded poetry as trenchant part of communal life, I'm emotional in being able to announce my forthcoming book, Poetry after Barbarism cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Mining Conversations is a space for cross-practice, international & reflective conversations about mining among artists, academics, activists, & others interested in mining. Please join us Tuesday for The Futurepasts of Copper, Zoom: 1 pm Central: www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution...

WH tweet annotating a NYT headline to insert the claim that Abrego Garcia is never coming back.

WH sharing story with AG Bondi saying Abrego Garcia is never coming back

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

Never was a Harry Potter fan.

The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges The Daily · Episode

Whether you work at a university or attend a university or not, you need to hear this straight-up fascist playbook from the horse's mouth. This 40-year-old megalomaniac who grew up in a Roman family also indicates why Italy is at the avant-garde of the swing rightward.

ART + ENVIRONMENT CHAT — OIKOST Art And The Environment Join us for this conversation on different ways of observing, measuring, and interacting with environments. For this event, we have gathered three scholars and practitioners w...

Today after you hear Judith Butler at 5 you can walk down Ellis Ave to the Gray Center Co-Lab for Arts & Science for dinner & to help me talk with an artist and a geophysicist specializing in climate science: you can do both & get fed!

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When this guy vows to act "instinctively" I shudder

100 children a day dead, and he's talking about American real estate and loving Nazis.

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.

We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

Please join us Thursday at 6 pm at the Gray Center Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science on the UChicago campus for dinner and a chat about Art and the Environment: delighted to be in conversation with artist Elizabeth McTernan and climate systems engineer David Keith.

Finally canceled my subscription.

“Squeeze in so we can save democracy”—salvific brethren on crammed Red Line train.