Chris Campanioni

n x n/w’s first award season ❤️‍🔥 huge congrats to all the finalists! & thanks to the readers responsible for recognizing this curious book for this incredible honor. more news in june. pick up a copy from @wvupress.bsky.social at AWP & allow me the pleasure to autograph yours on Saturday 💃🏼📚

“what happens when a scholarly text is opened up, annotated, and accessed or acted out differently, which is to say reprocessed?”👇🏽 Drift Net’s “embodied methodologies” in @booksireland.bsky.social with the luminous @cmakris.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥⚡️

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 @wvupress.bsky.social

north by north/west, an attention to frequency, 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

things 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! 🫦✨

Now you can hear the words, too 🎶⚡️ https://proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/we-never-hear-about-the-fathers-of-birds/ @proteanmag.com

Work That Happens Elsewhere: in-conversation in Books Ireland magazine I was pleased to be able to formalise an almost decade-long association with New Jersey / New York writer, poet and multimedia artist  Chris...

‘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...

The "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.

ah! Thanks so much for reading & sharing ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 @proteanmag.com

"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

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) ❤️‍🔥⚡️

https://events.humanitix.com/queens-poetry-symposium-bilingual-poetry-reading

https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/queens-poetry-symposium/016825-0525

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.

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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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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...

“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

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/

The Spell of Exile - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

“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

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 ❤️‍🔥📚

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…

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/

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/

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."

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…

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

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."

"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...

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

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...

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 ❤️‍🔥⚡️

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

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...

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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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

👋🏽 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