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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'll read some poetry against fascism alongside others who care about those terrifying repositories of other languages known as "foreign countries" at the Art League Friday. Thursday, a seminar at the U of Houston about Poetry After Barbarism, to honor those that dealt glintingly with this hell.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"POETRY AFTER BARBARISM ... is animated by a fellow-poet's political passion and compassion for the peoples under subjection." In *Blackbox Manifold,* Adam Piette reviews Jennifer Scappettone's new book. bit.ly/4pJGkPE @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Grateful for this gorgeous analysis—also a rallying cry in a time of gloom: "Scappettone offers the ultimate rejoinder to both Auerbach & Said...[O]ur language—our home—must also be planetary & cosmic, escaping the entrapments that make an internationalized earth just another vestige of the state."

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wish I could say this book landed in the wrong world. Join me and my colleagues Rachel Galvin and Na’ama Rokem for a discussion of Poetry After Barbarism tomorrow in Chicago’s Seminary Co-op. Tomorrow at 4:30 pm in Hyde Park.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

30% off of Columbia titles—including Poetry After Barbarism!

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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Can poetry born in exile and linguistic fracture become a form of resistance against the politics of purity and belonging? @xenoglossic.bsky.social, University of Chicago discusses: faculti.net/motherless-t... #literature

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Little lights in the overweening dimness…thanks for reading

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

half off sale—includes the spanking new Poetry After Barbarism!

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Don't feed the tech machine on Cyber Monday and its billionaire fiends; feed anti-fascism, poetry, and university presses under attack! Poetry After Barbarism is 50% off today only—a dollar and change for each year it was in development. Ecco: cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

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Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

You can find bits of an interview about my new book here:

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

So grateful for being able to publish this book right now—as tough as it is that the circumstances are as they are!

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'll be busy this autumn launching my new book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, performing poetry and presenting in-progress projects about extraction and waste as well from time to time.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It speaks for itself. (image courtesy of NY Times)

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am seriously impressed with Karyn Ball, the president of the American Comparative Literature Association who greeted its members thus in a time when we are being asked by administrators to "reimagine" the humanities in ways that will clearly decimate teaching of "foreign" languages & knowledges:

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If you don't find this beating of a gardener and father of US service members horrifying you are not worthy of the label human.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We continue thinking and doing through/vs the disasters & injustices. An exhibition of Exit 43 pop-up counterpastorals is now up in Kunstverein Munich—Many thanks to Vera Lutz and Simon Lässig and to curator Gloria Hasnay for the invitation to display these in dialogue with their show Romeo's Eyes.

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Romeo’s eyes: Jennifer Scappettone

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

O the prophesies of Alice Notley that we’re rereading in advance of a special live session of my reading group for the overweening Emergency. Rest in anti-tyrannical power.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We of the republic of poetics are all lucky to have Sarah as reader!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

On May 22nd at 8:30 in Amsterdam, Jennifer Scapettone will read from her forthcoming book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM and be in discussion w/ Mia You and Sara Giannini. tinyurl.com/5dd9h3uw @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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st. If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution shop

st. If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution organizes events with Stager - get your acts together!

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A reading for our most cherished Lyn across all the languages this Saturday, on what would've been her 82nd birthday. I'd say far more but these tidbit, "pitch" formats are particularly unwelcoming for writers the likes of me—just come & hear her work as polyphony! www.facebook.com/events/13981...

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THE OBVIOUS ANALOGY IS WITH MUSIC: A Reading for Lyn Hejinian

Event by Ivan Sokolov on Saturday, May 17 2025

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

On this May Day & during this week of further cruelty, violence, & devastating loss of those who regarded poetry as trenchant part of communal life, I'm emotional in being able to announce my forthcoming book, Poetry after Barbarism cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Mining Conversations is a space for cross-practice, international & reflective conversations about mining among artists, academics, activists, & others interested in mining. Please join us Tuesday for The Futurepasts of Copper, Zoom: 1 pm Central: www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution...

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Anthropocene Curriculum

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

WH tweet annotating a NYT headline to insert the claim that Abrego Garcia is never coming back.

WH sharing story with AG Bondi saying Abrego Garcia is never coming back

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Whether you work at a university or attend a university or not, you need to hear this straight-up fascist playbook from the horse's mouth. This 40-year-old megalomaniac who grew up in a Roman family also indicates why Italy is at the avant-garde of the swing rightward.

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The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today after you hear Judith Butler at 5 you can walk down Ellis Ave to the Gray Center Co-Lab for Arts & Science for dinner & to help me talk with an artist and a geophysicist specializing in climate science: you can do both & get fed! 929 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 Free and open to the public

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ART + ENVIRONMENT CHAT — OIKOST

Art And The Environment Join us for this conversation on different ways of observing, measuring, and interacting with environments. For this event, we have gathered three scholars and practitioners w...

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

When this guy vows to act "instinctively" I shudder

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

100 children a day dead, and he's talking about American real estate and loving Nazis.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Please join us Thursday at 6 pm at the Gray Center Co-Laboratory for Arts and Science on the UChicago campus for dinner and a chat about Art and the Environment: delighted to be in conversation with artist Elizabeth McTernan and climate systems engineer David Keith.

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Events | Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Squeeze in so we can save democracy”—salvific brethren on crammed Red Line train.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Chicago Transit Authority trains are full of people with signs headed toward the center. Let’s do this.

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"How does a system bent upon our ultimate destruction make the unacceptable gradually tolerable?" —Audre Lorde, "Apartheid USA"

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/04/2025

wow

A screenshot of the NYT’s homepage, which features a chart that shows the plunge of U.S. stock prices since Trump returned to the White House. Above the chart sits a headline, which I’ve edited to read:

TRUMP TAKE NEST EGG

Lower on the page sits this _actual_ NYT headline:

S&P 500 Is Down Almost 5% as Trump’s Moves Stun Markets

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is what shows up when you try to click on the link to Columbia University's statement of commitment to diversity. I did so as a CUP author.

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/KMMeLTrY. Please check out events near you. This is such an important start—we have to keep it going!!

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Join me on April 5th

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"The Trump administration shut down three watchdog agencies in the Department of Homeland Security, gutting the offices responsible for conducting oversight of the president’s immigration crackdown. More than 100 staff members in the department’s civil rights office alone were fired."

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Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

!!! "The university said it had agreed to hire a new internal security force of 36 “special officers” who will be empowered to remove people from campus or arrest them. The wearing of face masks on campus will also be banned..." This is truly the beginning of the end of freedom

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Columbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

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