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POETRY AFTER BARBARISM THE REPUBLIC OF EXIT 43 KILLING THE MOONLIGHT—MODERNISM IN VENICE LOCOMOTRIX FROM DAME QUICKLY SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED: 2 ACTS BELLADONNA ELDERS SERIES #5 AUFGABE 7 THING ODE/ODE OGGETTUALE ERR-RESIDENCE BEAUTY [IS THE NEW ABSURDITY] A NEURAL NET Bibliography (Critical Engagement) DELIRIOUS VERSE
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ANTIFASCIST PHILOLOGY AT BROWN
ANTIFASCIST PHILOLOGY AT BROWN
poesy, rome, xenoglossia, milan, sao pauloJ. ScappettoneNovember 14, 2025xenoglossic poetics, xenoglossia, XENOGLOSSIA, poetry after barbarism
LINGUE SENZA MADRE
LINGUE SENZA MADRE
poesy, rome, xenoglossia, traductionJ. ScappettoneNovember 10, 2025xenoglossic poetics, xenoglossia, XENOGLOSSIA, motherless tongues, mother's milk, poesia di ricerca
ANTHROPOCENE CONSEQUENCES
ANTHROPOCENE CONSEQUENCES
chicago, ecopoetics, data, postpastoralism, the cloud, time, Deep timeJ. ScappettoneOctober 25, 2025Ecopoetics, geopoetics, ecopoetics, the cloud
XENOGLOSSIA ALLA CASA ITALIANA
XENOGLOSSIA ALLA CASA ITALIANA
poesy, rome, new york, architext, xenoglossia, traductionJ. ScappettoneOctober 21, 2025NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimòxenoglossic poetics, xenoglossia, XENOGLOSSIA, poesy
ORGANISM FOR POETIC RESEARCH
ORGANISM FOR POETIC RESEARCH
architext, poesy, rome, xenoglossia, new yorkJ. ScappettoneOctober 21, 2025poesy, xenoglossia, xenoglossic poetics, poetry after barbarism, events
IDROLOGIE AT UCHICAGO
IDROLOGIE AT UCHICAGO
xenoglossia, visual poetics, são paulo, rome, poesyJ. ScappettoneOctober 3, 2025xenoglossic poetics, xenoglossia, MIGRANT, transmigratori, translingualism
PUBLIC TRUST, 11/3
PUBLIC TRUST, 11/3
poesy, visual poetics, xenoglossiaJ. ScappettoneSeptember 27, 2025Public Trustxenoglossia, xenoglossic poetics, migrant, trasmigratori, poetry after barbarism
PO-EX FESTIVAL, CDMX
PO-EX FESTIVAL, CDMX
breath, corporality, poesy, performance, traduction, visual poeticsJ. ScappettoneSeptember 15, 2025Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Méxicopoesy, hemispheric poetics, xenoglossia, performance, events
ON TOUR THIS FALL
ON TOUR THIS FALL
los angeles, new york, paris, poesy, rome, traduction, visual poetics, performanceJ. ScappettoneSeptember 4, 2025xenoglossic poetics, xenoglossia, poetry, poetry after barbarism, Amelia Rosselli, LaTasha Diggs, Emilio Villa, Marinetti, futurism, Etel Adnan, etel adnan, concrete poetry, contemporary Italian poetry, migrant, trasmigratori, translingualism, translation, traduction, transmigratori, sawako nakayasu, chika sagawa, baroness, events, fascism, antifascism, barbarism
EXIT 43 GOES TO MUNICH
EXIT 43 GOES TO MUNICH
corporality, ecopoetics, enormity, new york, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralism, romeJ. ScappettoneJune 20, 2025Kunstverein Munchenecopoetics, waste, trash, landfill, landfill poetics, garbage, infrastructure, poetics of infrastructure, geopoetics, Exit 43, republic
REIMAGINING THE REPUBLIC
REIMAGINING THE REPUBLIC
corporality, ecopoetics, freshkills, performance, poesy, postpastoralismJ. ScappettoneJune 19, 2025Kunstverein Munchenecopoetics, geopoetics, exit 43, Exit 43, poesy, waste, garbage, trash, infrastructure, poetics of infrastructure, landfill, landfill poetics, visual poetry, verbivocovisual, environmental justice
RIVERWORK, WITH LISA ROBERTSON
RIVERWORK, WITH LISA ROBERTSON
architext, chicago, corporality, ecopoetics, poesy, postpastoralism, parisJ. ScappettoneJune 10, 2025rivers, urban rivers, geopoetics, ecopoetics, water, waterislife, watersheds, paris, bievre, Lisa robertson, feminism, arcades project
CHASING THE SEINE
CHASING THE SEINE
paris, chicago, corporality, ecopoetics, architext, sound, postpastoralismJ. ScappettoneJune 10, 2025#geopoetics of #urbanrivers #waterandpower #waterislife, geopoetics, waterislife, water, wetlands, rivers, urban rivers, ecopoetics
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THE OBVIOUS ANALOGY IS WITH MUSIC: LYN HEJINIAN ACROSS TONGUES
poesy, traductionJ. ScappettoneMay 16, 2025translation, traduction, Lyn Hejinian
POETRY @ BASECAMP 4 TACTICAL IMAGINARIES
POETRY @ BASECAMP 4 TACTICAL IMAGINARIES
cerro de pasco, chuquicamata, data, ecopoetics, enormity, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralism, performance, the cloudJ. ScappettoneMay 16, 2025poesy, copper, copperlyres, procedural poetry, translingualism, ecopoetics
METRICS @ SAN SERRIFFE
METRICS @ SAN SERRIFFE
rome, traduction, xenoglossia, performance, poesy, timeJ. ScappettoneMay 16, 2025San SerriffeAmelia Rosselli, translation, traduction, trasmigratori, xenoglossia, poesy, poesia di ricerca, sound, performance, meter, rhythm
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paris, poesy, rome, traduction, xenoglossiaJ. ScappettoneMay 9, 2025xenoglossia, poetry after barbarism, poesy, translingualism, traduction, trasmigratori, translation, transnationalism, citizenship, global citizenship
DELIRIOUS VERSE: ROSSELLI'S METRICS
DELIRIOUS VERSE: ROSSELLI'S METRICS
rome, traduction, poesyJ. ScappettoneApril 30, 2025Amelia Rosselli, poesy, traduction, translation, poetry after barbarism, prosody
ANTHROPOCENE COMMONS: COPPER
ANTHROPOCENE COMMONS: COPPER
agbogbloshie, bisbee, butte, cerro de pasco, chuquicamata, ecopoetics, enormity, keweenaw, paumanok, postpastoralism, the cloudJ. ScappettoneApril 13, 2025copperlyres, ecopoetics, enormity, extraction, mining, copper
ART + ENVIRONMENT CHAT
ART + ENVIRONMENT CHAT
bisbee, butte, chuquicamata, cerro de pasco, chicago, corporality, ecopoetics, data, keweenaw, performance, paumanok, postpastoralism, the cloudJ. ScappettoneApril 7, 2025ecopoetics, geopoetics
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Landscape of post-election autumn aptly disarraying itself, with my favorite Romanticist as Rückenfigur, with my favorite & most difficult colleague in the mouth of my favorite poet-teacher-interpreter-mortal, “bargaining with what is
On the grid as charm toward a parallel union-verse: Some beautiful poets rolled into town and graced Chicago with the sound of ancestral light (this is literal, not a metaphor)…some preternatural lights were even hiding in the audience! Making
This issue of Semicerchio devoted to The Nature-Text: Poetics of Hyperobjects and Post-Apocalyptic Poetry just dropped from Florence, Italy, a place that knows a thing or two about political assault. On its cover is a gorgeous collage by julie ezelle
Putting this on the grid in case y’all are in town. Check out my former student David Gutherz’s excellent dissertation on the “upside-down intellectuals” of postwar Italy for more context.
January 21, 2017. We’ve fought before. And we’ll do it again. These moments of joy in resistance as talisman. #antifascismintheusa #antifascistpoetics
I finished Poetry After Barbarism yesterday and sent it on its way. For real—the years of image gathering and permissions and citations too as well as distillation of a dozen years of arguments about how fascism inheres in language and how some
Such a fun day out on the water—by which I mean the remnant of “made water” (to tweak a Sinclair phrase) from the Columbian Exposition south of the Museum of Science and Industry, where @friendsofthechicagoriver educator Mark Hauser
It is here! JULIE EZELLE PATTON: ARKITEXT, from Chicago Review, a collaborative editorial project of ours long in coming and hard to put between covers: with contributions by a host of luminaries from Abou Farman to Lee Ann Brown, Jonathan Skinner to
In late winter of 2022, wishing to extend the consequences of a dreamy visiting professorship in Paris that had been drastically limited in scope by the pandemic, I applied for funding to launch a provocation about the Geopoetics of Urban Rivers in a
Some things that happened in California whilst still being inconsolable, last weekend somehow there, too briefly and exhaustedly, in honor of Lyn Hejinian and also Etel, her Tamalpais the fellow to the pelicans #griefmanifestointheaterofnormalcy #eld
I am pleased to say that we will be joined in Chicago next week by scholar of the River Jordan & freshwater activist Rachel Havrelock and anti-colonial theorist of landscape Dilip da Cunha to break down the relations between water and power. This
Second time in my life what a gift in the midst of much worry and work—#geopoetics of #seeinginthedark #tracesofhopeonthegreatlakes
I look forward to trying to express my love for this person, this poet, yet one more time in a public mode. I don't look forward to trying to do so without breaking. Come celebrate our beloved teacher, colleague, friend. I'm honored to be in this com
I am (still) (& again) finishing the book, which means contacting telegraph corporations, Moroccan editors, Houston art libraries, Italian archives, all kinds of heirs and foundations, and so on, and some friends as well. Every once in a while th
Taking a break from finishing off finishing the finished manuscript about the non-finishment of fascism (with its various rights and permissions to pay the world over, as if blood sweat and tears weren’t enough for this stone) for an alternativ
It’s going to take some time to settle the mind to some faulty yoke of memory of these otherworldly guanacos, cactus ceilings and gates, mining donkeys left for dead in the desert surviving amidst the suns come down to earth in the form of plas
More apparitions from the boiling up of earth and glimmering of sky in the Atacama Desert, by far the best of which ended up on those leporello folds not in pixels—speaking of which the penultimate vision is of lithium mining, so one direly won
The irony of coming here to glimpse industry doing what industry does with blinders on and failing at that - instead finding mostly the most miraculous creatures and mineral agglomerations continuing to rearrange themselves in spite of all gashing pi
Valparaíso you’ve won my heart on so many levels from your high talking walls down to your funky next-level kitty monotype recycled threads and the many colors of your port (unshown, I ran out of images) #geopoetics of #streetart #talki
Santiago, including the extractivist Zen copper garden with copper building at La Católica’s campus; the headlines about pennies following four public performances of mine about pennies from nether; the geological exhibits of the subway

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