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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
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a quick glimpse of last night’s bilingual Queens Poetry Symposium at @qplnyc.bsky.social in Flushing (Bluesky really needs to add video sharing ⚡️)
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Thought I'd share my ironically titled playlist with Arthur Russell disco (Sleeping Bag Records) and some techno that @chriscampanioni.bsky.social shared w/ me 🤠🪩🕺🏋️‍♂️

Lol emojis

Ask me for more nerdy music recs!!
Sleeping Bag Workout
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October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“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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September 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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/
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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“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...
The Spell of Exile - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
theoffingmag.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
grateful to be gathered in celebration ❤️‍🔥📚
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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…
heavyfeatherreview.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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/
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…
truemag.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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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."
Grandma-killer says what? (This is deeply deranged and Mamdani got the apartment when he was making $47K)
August 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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…
truemag.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"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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July 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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...
July 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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 ❤️‍🔥⚡️
July 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
June 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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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June 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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👋🏽 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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June 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.
June 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
June 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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 💭🏄‍♀️
June 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Congratulations to Reuben Gelley Newman(@joustingsnail.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry!
May 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM