a quick glimpse of last night’s bilingual Queens Poetry Symposium at @qplnyc.bsky.social in Flushing (Bluesky really needs to add video sharing ⚡️)

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

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.

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“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

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/

“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...

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

grateful to be gathered in celebration ❤️‍🔥📚

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/

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/

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."

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

"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...

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...

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 ❤️‍🔥⚡️

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

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...

👋🏽 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

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.

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

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

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 💭🏄‍♀️

Congratulations to Reuben Gelley Newman(@joustingsnail.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry!

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

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

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

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

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/

a few weeks late on sharing this here but—hooray!—we’re still in national poetry month. Thanks to @rhinopoetry.bsky.social & Nat Alonso for this brilliant & interactive essay on Windows 85 that you, too, can play with 🐰 https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews/chris-campanioni-reviewed-by-nat-alonso

Really excited & grateful to be gathered with so many incredible scholars & energizing research this season @leverpress.bsky.social Drift Net approaches ⚡️June 10 🏄🏼 https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/D/Drift-Net

I meant extraordinarily meaty in a good way

Loved putting together this reading list to celebrate the launch of VHS @clashbooks.bsky.social ft. work by @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social Valeria Luiselli, Olga Tokarczuk, Cristina García, Dubravka Ugrešić, Yanara Friedland, & more ⚡️❤️‍🔥

Thank you to Kendra Sullivan for your incredibly energetic & generous reading of Windows 85, & the intrepid team @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for shepherding this essay to print ⚡️❤️‍🔥 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crashes-on-the-information-highway/

“So, I wanted to feel language, to sensitize my body as reparation & as part of a quantum entanglement where we could join forces … I wanted to do what … some scholars say about Emily Dickinson: that she wrote intimately, but rarely personally. I wanted to get that close that fast.” ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

“My dislocation isn’t a coin to trade for sympathy or authority. … I believe in the real because poems can’t be made of anything else. I just don’t have a lineage or a people that would cosign my real into something authentic.” ⚡️⚡️ @faridmatuk.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social https://poems.com/

I know blurbs are having a little moment right now, but I was excited to write one for @chriscampanioni.bsky.social's amazing hybrid memoir: "Evading classification at every turn, this deeply associative text is migratory and nationless, if genre can be understood as a state from which to emigrate."

still finding my way around bluesky but immensely grateful to be in Richard’s coordinates & to have him as a reader & an accomplice in language & literature! Please read his extraordinary debut if you haven’t already ⚡️💜 @uwiscpress.bsky.social https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6207.htm

concise verdict

Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.

Works of art born in translation. Metropolitan media practices recast via the pipelines of migration. Migrants’ reformulation of subjectivity thru counterdocumentation. A manual in advancing theory to read social & political formations. I can't wait to share this book with you ⚡️

here for the divinations