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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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ABOUT BOOKS 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 PUBLICATIONS ESSAYS INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS VIDEO JOURNALS ANTHOLOGIES POETRY BEYOND THE PAGE GEOPOETICS OF URBAN RIVERS SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED LEAVE LOOM EXIT 43 (OUTTAKES BEYOND THE BOOK) POPULIST PASTORAL (IN SMOKE) THE DATA THAT WE BREATHE PARK Confinement Motet VISUAL/INSTALLATIONS SOUND NEOSUPREMATIST WEBTEXTS of the Monitor’s Fight TEACHING City Lit: Between Utopia & Dystopia, Design & Occupation Poetics of Dislocation Ecopoetics: Literature and Ecology Breathing Matters: Poetics and Politics of Air RADICAL DOCUMENTARY "ADVANCED""POETRY""WRITING" Realism & the Abracadabrant Word Cultures of Distraction Henry James & the Sense of the Past Poetry Of & Off the Page Writing and Social Change
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MAY DAY BROADCAST
MAY DAY BROADCAST
the cloud, traduction, rome, postpastoralism, mining, cerro de pasco, ecopoetics, data, keweenawJ. ScappettoneMay 1, 2020copper, copperlyres, translation, augmented reality, poetry, Amelia Rosselli, Arturo Giovannitti, wobblies, May Day
ETYMOLOGY, ECOLOGY, ECOPOETICS
ETYMOLOGY, ECOLOGY, ECOPOETICS
ecopoetics, enormity, freshkills, keweenaw, mining, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralism, the cloudJ. ScappettoneApril 23, 2020copperlyres, copper, garbage, reviews, poesy
GEOPOETICA/GRAFOGRAFXS
GEOPOETICA/GRAFOGRAFXS
architext, cerro de pasco, data, ecopoetics, keweenaw, postpastoralism, poesy, the cloudJ. ScappettoneJanuary 31, 2020coper, copper, copperlyres, geopoetics, ecopoetics, mining, landfill, landfill poetics
DÉRIVE THRU CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
DÉRIVE THRU CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
architext, chicago, performance, poesyJ. ScappettoneDecember 1, 2019architext, performance
LAMENT COMES TO COPPER COUNTRY
LAMENT COMES TO COPPER COUNTRY
enormity, keweenaw, performance, postpastoralism, poesy, the cloudJ. ScappettoneNovember 15, 2019copper, copperlyres, keweenaw, mining
BODY IN LANGUAGE WITH BLONK!
BODY IN LANGUAGE WITH BLONK!
corporality, data, sound, poesy, performanceJ. ScappettoneNovember 15, 2019performance
WRITER AND CITIZEN
WRITER AND CITIZEN
chicagoJ. ScappettoneOctober 16, 2019citizenship, writing and social change, vagula, migrant, copper
GEOLOGICAL WRITINGS IN HOUSTON
GEOLOGICAL WRITINGS IN HOUSTON
ecopoetics, the cloud, traduction, cerro de pasco, corporality, el pasoJ. ScappettoneSeptember 25, 2019copper, copperlyres, EXIT 43, VA
CIVITELLA RANIERI READING w/ MWAKATOBE
CIVITELLA RANIERI READING w/ MWAKATOBE
data, ecopoetics, keweenaw, traduction, agbogbloshie, cerro de pasco, miningJ. ScappettoneSeptember 11, 2019copperlyres, copper
OVERBURDEN AT ASLE, UC DAVIS
OVERBURDEN AT ASLE, UC DAVIS
ecopoetics, enormity, mining, postpastoralism, poesyJ. ScappettoneJune 5, 2019ASLE, overburden, mining, copperlyres, ecopoetics, copper
SANTA CRUZ READING W/ SELCER & JOSEPH
SANTA CRUZ READING W/ SELCER & JOSEPH
poesy, performanceJ. ScappettoneMay 24, 2019readings, performance
PORTABLE GRAY 2: SOUND & MUSIC
PORTABLE GRAY 2: SOUND & MUSIC
the cloud, traduction, mining, keweenaw, ecopoetics, data, cerro de pasco, agbogbloshieJ. ScappettoneMay 24, 2019copperlyres, copper, SOUND, AR, DIGITALITY, COLLAGE, publications, poesy, sound
WOLFMAN READING WITH ROY & LEVITSKY
WOLFMAN READING WITH ROY & LEVITSKY
J. ScappettoneMay 24, 2019readings, performance, oakland
FOG IS MY LAND
FOG IS MY LAND
architext, beirut, bay area, paris, poesy, traductionJ. ScappettoneApril 23, 2019xenoglossia, poet-scholar, poesy, painting, multilingualism, babel
LAMENT AT COUNTERPATH
LAMENT AT COUNTERPATH
architext, agbogbloshie, bisbee, cerro de pasco, data, corporality, chicago, keweenaw, mining, performance, poesy, postpastoralism, the cloudJ. ScappettoneMarch 31, 2019copper, copperlyres, performance, installation
SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD
SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD
cerro de pasco, data, ecopoetics, enormity, keweenaw, mining, postpastoralism, performance, poesy, the cloudJ. ScappettoneMarch 31, 2019University of Colorado, Bouldercopper, copperlyres, performance
WAS NO ONE WAY WENT ALICE
WAS NO ONE WAY WENT ALICE

A new video from ModPo on “was no one/way went Alice.”

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ecopoetics, enormity, freshkills, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralismJ. ScappettoneMarch 23, 2019Exit 43, copperlyres, trash, visual poetry, verbivocovisual, copper
SCALAPINO LECTURE IN INNOVATIVE POETICS
SCALAPINO LECTURE IN INNOVATIVE POETICS
agbogbloshie, bisbee, cerro de pasco, butte, chicago, keweenaw, mining, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralism, the cloudJ. ScappettoneFebruary 27, 2019copperlyres, entanglement, the cloud, copper
SPRING 2019 EVENTS
SPRING 2019 EVENTS
the cloud, poesy, postpastoralismJ. ScappettoneFebruary 18, 2019events, xenoglossia, copper
ARCHEOLOGY OF LIBERTY
ARCHEOLOGY OF LIBERTY
agbogbloshie, cerro de pasco, data, corporality, ecopoetics, paumanok, poesy, postpastoralism, the cloud, miningJ. ScappettoneJanuary 23, 2019copper, copperlyres, extraction, liberty, migrant, labor, strikes
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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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