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Chel Campbell

@chelcampbell.bsky.social
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☀️ poet & BOTN-nominated collage artist ⚡️ EIC @memezine.bsky.social ⭐️ poetry reader @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🪰 LOVEBUG (rinky dink press, 2025) ✍️ work appearing/forthcoming in matchbook, X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel, trampset, & more

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Repeat after me: Your body is not your enemy. Your body is what helps you get around. Your body is what helps you enjoy the world around you. Your body is what you use to draw a cool S
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Slightly diminish a book. None Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 🥲
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MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This flash fiction piece by @amykdebellis.bsky.social hits hard. Read here and get into itttt www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...
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"Fact Checking" by Amy DeBellis — MEMEZINE
“Fact Checking”
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
certified banger
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’m late to celebrating on here BUT I couldn’t be more thrilled about my first BOTN nomination! Thank you @wildroofjournal.bsky.social 🫶🏻
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Vibe physics”
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’m experimenting with anti-aesthetic, or purposeful imperfectionism. It’s my small, human response to eerily perfect AI art so devoid of soul. This piece is inspired by all the poorly-made, overpriced housing that’s popping up all over my city. I made it from a local magazine and thrifted beads.
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Gonna say something liberals really won’t like and it’s that you’re going to have to find it in your heart to feel compassion for and attempt to help ppl in crisis whose politics you may not agree with or else you’re gonna become the very thing you claim to hate
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So excited that my collage became the cover of this gorgeous issue! Thank you @aaronlelito.bsky.social!
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m so stoked to read these submissions. Send us words so fire that they can melt 🧊 and burn a tėslä 🫶🏻
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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
FernGully director: ok we have this kids movie about a fairy and a human guy trying to save the rainforest. Also Robin Williams is a bat Tim Curry: I’m going to sing the sexiest villain song ever as a sexy sludge guy and also say I’m horny in the song director: ok you know what sure why not
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It'll never stop making me feel insane that writers are made to feel crazy for appropriately valuing their craft while guys who haven't written an email on their own in three years are painting themselves as essential to the future
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thank you @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving my CNF a home. It’s a deeply personal flash on motherhood, nature, and violence. Thank you for reading 🫶🏻
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Shoutout to Joel for solving homophobia with violence
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
yeah i believe in essential oils
black ice tree shaped air freshener
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
hate to say it but cutting back on substances has helped my creativity return 🫣
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Skeletons, But Swole @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"I don't have the spoons." Bullshit. You have at least one spoon.
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There are enough microplastics in your brain to make an entire spoon
There isn't yet research on how to remove microplastics already in our bodies, but there are a few ways we can limit exposure.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Went to text my poet group chat and accidentally gave Jeffrey Goldberg the scoop on the moon
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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 24/03/2025
these ones are for all the bay leaf truthers
Two small plastic pots containing ~six-inch tall bay laurel plants
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I feel like I should be a poet who smokes a lot of cigarettes, but I quit smoking before I became a poet. Huge missed opportunity.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Well, syntax is the thing that allows for manipulation in a sentence, in a way that grammar doesn't […] To me this is very erotic. It's like seeing someone across the room and deciding you want him.” Carl Phillips, Paris Review #Syntax
INTERVIEWER
And how do you approach syntax now?

PHILLIPS
Well, syntax is the thing that allows for manipulation in a sentence, in a way that grammar doesn't. Syntax allows us to move blocks of text around, stall the delivery of information, establish hierarchies. Its ability to give only so much, then to switch directions, teasing the sentence out— that's like foreplay. You decide when you'll draw the readers in, and when you'll release them, and for how long. And just when they think they've been released, you can bring them back in again. To me this is very erotic. It's like seeing someone across the room and deciding you want him. First you have to get his attention, then you need to hold it and draw him closer to you. I often describe poems as little systems of restraint and release. The prioritizing of, say, noun clauses over verbs, withholding the action, the crux of the sentence, establishes a power structure-though which has more power, the prioritized noun or the verb shrouded in mystery? It's a bit like the ambiguity that hovers over the power dynamic in BDSM-who actually has power, and who just appears to? And that's so much of what eros is, as well.

INTERVIEWER
Sometimes the endings of your poems don't feel like closures but like juncture points. There's no hard click, just a gesture toward a continuous inquiring.

PHILLIPS
Yes, a constant pushing toward and into what isn't known. I'm not able to write toward a known subject. I'm often in a situation that I think would be
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cathode ray tubetop @nightelectricity.com · 07/03/2025
new saddest six word story just dropped
Facebook marketplace listing for "Full Podcasting set up (Hardly used)
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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
must rock being a cybertruck guy. every time you pull up it’s like beep beep make way for the Ambassador of Divorce
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Leaning further into goblinism by having a rat tail now
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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
keep those micro subs coming! you’ve got one week left—SUBS CLOSE MARCH 3RD 🖤🩶🤍 @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/about/micro-...
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Micro Submission Guidelines - Identity Theory
Thank you for your interest in publishing your micro in Identity Theory. We thoughtfully read, consider, and discuss all submissions. Qualifying micros
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The thing is that of course these guys want to just privatize all this shit without understanding that the reason we LITERALLY HAVE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is to do the things that don’t actually make a profit but still SUPER need to get done
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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 16/02/2025
It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent. Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
media.tenor.com
kermit the frog from sesame street wearing a hat and a trench coat
ALT: kermit the frog from sesame street wearing a hat and a trench coat
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Sophie Bebeau @sophiebebeau.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I knew I loved you when you showed me your Minecraft world | Hera Lindsay Bird
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
how it feels to start over on another platform
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It's been a tough week of fascist onslaughts. So it feels like a good time to re-up "The Authoritarian Survival Guide," a compilation of messages sent from Eastern Europeans who have fought fascism before us. There are several sections we can learn from. >> verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
My nervous system has oscillated between freeze and fight since the inauguration. But today I felt inspired to begin a new blackout poetry and collage zine. Art is necessary to survival.
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Kristin Gustafson @kristinthered.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
So I won 3rd place in MEMEZINE's "weird little guys" contest and added it to my LinkedIn bio. You know your girl loves a contrapuntal.
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“My witchy best friend reads my future in her tarot cards and insists that revealing the hanged man is not a death sentence: a contrapuntal" by Kristin Gustafson — MEMEZINE
“My witchy best friend reads my future in her tarot cards and insists that revealing the hanged man is not a death sentence: a contrapuntal"
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
check out memezinelit.com and read the “weird little guys” issue if you need a dose of lovely literary strangeness / I am super proud of my team for getting this out into the world, and I’m stoked to share this with you all today.
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MEMEZINE
A literary zine blurring the lines between art, literature, and content.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
makers & learners, teachers & delighters, agitators & elders, readers & weepers—how much i need you, need you all
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My hair is v long right now, which means it’s the perfect opportunity to cut my hair short and keep a long rat tail
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Incredible read for anyone, but this one especially reaches out with a loving hand to girlbosses and tradwives, witches and brats, sick girls and healing ones too.
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Among the Post-Feminists | The Point Magazine
Even when sincerely believed, the “truths” of the post-feminists are alternative; their motives mixed, if not downright ulterior.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Scott Keeney
Things To Do with Other People

Topple democracy, fuck,
Remember a more innocent time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2025
Ayanna Pressley: "I want to say to our Republican colleagues -- pay attention. We're here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!"
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gregggi g @unpopularwriter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
am i worried about the well being of our country? haha no not at all i think everything is going just fine. anyway time to go to walmart to buy boston creme donut scented deodorant from a line of dunkin donuts inspired deodorants
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/01/2025
ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...
ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In addition to helping vulnerable people and orgs, something else you can instead of screaming is to put a wrench in this administration’s plans every chance you get. A few ideas:
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Sara @mysticalshitshow.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just a reminder! Get your library cards and build your personal libraries! 💙 #booksky #resist
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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
the model is Puerto Rico: they did a general strike and got rid of the government; they built a left electoral coalition independent of the establishment parties; they have real communes that provide electricity, food, and dignity to people. puerto rico is the model.
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you have even a shred of radical hope within you, talk to people who are scared and tell them you will fight for them.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!
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