Chris Campanioni
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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- Reposted by Chris Campanioni"The book’s nonlinear, stream of consciousness, mosaic-like structure feels directionless. (But what is directionless but a resistance to direction?)" @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social's NORTH BY NORTH/WEST. Read it all here! buff.ly/vPvEUM8
- Reposted by Chris Campanionithings have been dark lately but AAAAAA BABE WAKE UP NEW EPISODE/SEASON OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is out today !!!!! I so hope you peep the review by @rachellayown.bsky.social of @chriscampanioni.bsky.social’s book, & takes such a fun, meandering personal turn in this one. well done Rachel! 🫦✨
- A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J Major thanks to our contributors! WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass ART Audrey Holmes PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
- Now you can hear the words, too 🎶⚡️ proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/we-never… @proteanmag.com
- Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence." proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/w...
- Reposted by Chris Campanioni‘Work That Happens Elsewhere’: a transatlantic conversation w/ @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @booksireland.bsky.social exploring a shared approach to poetry rooted in digital, documentary & pop culture dynamics. Thanks to @ruthmckee.bsky.social. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/work...
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniThe "creativity" afforded by AI is the creativity of the Renaissance art patron: it's the creativity of the ability to *tell* (not ask) someone to make what you want to see, to follow your whims, to flatter you. I's an expression of power, a desire to control, a skillless expression of uncreativity.
- Reposted by Chris Campanioni"to be a citizen what else what else could it mean to have such privilege of sitting still in silence when being asked to when being asked to live & to live & to live without having to say you are welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com
- Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence." proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/w...
- 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) ❤️🔥⚡️ events.humanitix.com/queens-poetry-sympo… queenslibrary.org/calendar/queens-poe…
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniA 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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- open.spotify.com/playlist/2DV... 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!!
- “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 defector.com/good-riddance-to-th…
- flashback to my glitch-ridden (intentional & inadvertent) performance at @derridatoday.bsky.social at the University of Athens ⚡️🤖🏄🏼This summer is in Paris. CFP here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/
- Reposted by Chris Campanioni“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 ❤️🔥📚
- Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating our scholars and leaders of Latino heritage who are making a difference in the arts, higher education, biomedical research, technology, literature, and more www.gc.cuny.edu/news/honorin...
- 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 ⚡️📼 heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/08/13/north-by…
- 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 📚⚡️ truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-wor…
- 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."
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniFixed 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."
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniNew 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
- Reposted by Chris Campanioni"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...
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniAlumnus 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 ❤️🔥⚡️
- "It is a dark time in America, but literature has always been a beacon of hope: Even in telling tragic stories, writers resist... In the following fifteen books from small press, resistance is a theme... Each one reminds us of why it matters to create.” (@wendyjfox.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniPrint 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
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniIt'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...
- Reposted by Chris Campanioni👋🏽 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: vimeo.com/1092517734/8ed8505fd5
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniHey 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
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniDRIFT 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 💭🏄♀️
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniCongratulations 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
- @triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry!
- 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 ❤️🔥⚡️📖 wvupressonline.com/north-by-north-west
- “Stop Screaming—It’s Me” is an all-time great almost title
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniReminder 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 electricliterature.com/11-small-press-book…
- 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 🐰 rhinopoetry.org/reviews/chris-campa…
- Really excited & grateful to be gathered with so many incredible scholars & energizing research this season @leverpress.bsky.social Drift Net approaches ⚡️June 10 🏄🏼 services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/D/Drift-Net
- The Lever Press Spring 2025 catalog is here! From studies of ancient China to literary explorations of migration, we have something for everyone. Browse our new and forthcoming books here: www.leverpress.org/assets/lp-sp...
- 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 ⚡️❤️🔥
- @chriscampanioni.bsky.social recommends books on migration that experiment with point of view by Olga Tokarczuk, Dubravka Ugrešić, Anna Seghers, and more.
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniIf you're trying to find a way into a poem today... www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/2/10/writing-prompt-from-a-detail
- 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 ⚡️❤️🔥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/crashes-on-…
- “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.” ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
- A new poem from Moon Mirrored Indivisible and an essay up at @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/the-moo...
- “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 poems.com
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniI 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 uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6207.htm
- 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."
- Reposted by Chris Campanioniconcise verdict
- Reposted by Chris CampanioniHere’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.
