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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · 10d

“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

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...

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · 10d

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/

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 14d

“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).

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The Spell of Exile - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · 15d

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

The Spell of Exile - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · 23d

grateful to be gathered in celebration ❤️‍🔥📚

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Aug 15

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/

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…

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Aug 12

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/

richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · Aug 11

very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."

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…

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Aug 8

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."

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · Aug 8

Grandma-killer says what? (This is deeply deranged and Mamdani got the apartment when he was making $47K)

Twitter screenshot:
Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo
Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.
You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich.
Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it.
We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.
Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.
posted: 3:15 PM · Aug 8, 2025

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true magazine @truemag.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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…

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Jul 31

"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 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."

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Jul 30

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...

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

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Jul 7

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 ❤️‍🔥⚡️

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · Jun 29

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

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Jun 17

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".

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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...

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Jun 17

👋🏽 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

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

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Jun 9

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 💭🏄‍♀️

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · May 13

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

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · May 10

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

Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · May 10

@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry!

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · Jan 2

from the notebooks of Raymond Chandler - possible titles he jotted down

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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

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