Jennifer Scappettone
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xenoglossic.bsky.social
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
oikost.com
11/27 University of Bologna/Museum of Modern Art of Bologna—in dialogue with Allison Grimaldi-Donahue
12/11 University of Warsaw
12/15-12/16 University of Padova, translation seminar
1/8–1/11 Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto (+ecopoetics)
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
11/3 University of Pennsylvania, Public Trust, 6-7:30 pm, Philadelphia
11/4 podcast/interview with Kelly Writers House Director Al Filreis
11/4 Salvage Poetics, University of Chicago (Republic of Exit 43)
11/14 Brown University, Italian Studies colloquium (online)
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
9/17–9/20 Po-Ex Festival, Mexico City (+poetry)
10/9–10/11 Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston (+copper project)
10/29 NYU Casa Italiana, NYC
10/30 Barnard, with Jhumpa Lahiri (on Amelia Rosselli), NYC
10/30 NYU, Organism for Poetic Research, 5-7 pm, NYC
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This 15-year chunk of blood, sweat and tears is now for sale and freely available to environing air.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Below are cities and dates: please come! Please let me know if you can meet up if we're in one another's cities. And please let me know if you are interested in reviewing, teaching, or otherwise hosting these sentences.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Sewing my mouth shut, making sure I get every possible infectious disease once controlled by humankind, stealing money from schools and museums, and issuing the most capricious, delusional executive orders will not stop me from writing.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Friends, I hope we can come together over this work, which deals with the rise of authoritarianism and how poets and artists reacted on intimate and public levels, through language itself. It's one of the things they can't really take away from us, as they attack education in every form.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You look just as you did several decades back, and radiant!
May 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thanks—psyched to have you as reader!
May 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM