Jennifer Scappettone
@xenoglossic.bsky.social
poet/documentarist/devotee of literary, scholarly, visual & performance arts
UChicago prof battling assaults of planetary life 1 word at a time
Columbia: Poetry After Barbarism; Killing the Moonlight
Atelos: Republic of Exit 43
UChi: Locomotrix
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UChicago prof battling assaults of planetary life 1 word at a time
Columbia: Poetry After Barbarism; Killing the Moonlight
Atelos: Republic of Exit 43
UChi: Locomotrix
oikost.com
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Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia
So grateful for being able to publish this book right now—as tough as it is that the circumstances are as they are!
Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
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Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So grateful for being able to publish this book right now—as tough as it is that the circumstances are as they are!
I'll be busy this autumn launching my new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, performing poetry and presenting in-progress projects about extraction and waste as well from time to time.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'll be busy this autumn launching my new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, performing poetry and presenting in-progress projects about extraction and waste as well from time to time.
It speaks for itself. (image courtesy of NY Times)
July 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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:
July 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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.
I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
June 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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.
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.
Romeo’s eyes: Jennifer Scappettone
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June 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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 UP’s fall catalog is out! See p. 57 for Poetry After Barbarism.
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
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June 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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.
May 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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!
Next fall & winter are going to be such a great time for new books in poetics: Jennifer Scappettone, Poetry after Barbarism; Amy De’Ath, Behind Our Backs; Keegan Cook Finberg, Poetry in General—no doubt others besides, but those are the ones I know about & am anticipating.
May 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We of the republic of poetics are all lucky to have Sarah as reader!
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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
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
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May 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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
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 OBVIOUS ANALOGY IS WITH MUSIC: A Reading for Lyn Hejinian
Event by Ivan Sokolov on Saturday, May 17 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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...
Soon we’ll have required oaths of allegiance to the regime. blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...
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 …
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May 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Soon we’ll have required oaths of allegiance to the regime. blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...
Thanks to Juliana for this non-elegy on Joshua Clover's refusing to die.
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
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May 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks to Juliana for this non-elegy on Joshua Clover's refusing to die.
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-...
May 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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...
Anthropocene Curriculum
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April 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
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With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.
Never was a Harry Potter fan.
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Never was a Harry Potter fan.
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.
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
The Daily · Episode
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April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
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!
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Free and open to the public
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Free and open to the public
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...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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!
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Free and open to the public
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Free and open to the public
When this guy vows to act "instinctively" I shudder
April 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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.
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
100 children a day dead, and he's talking about American real estate and loving Nazis.
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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
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos