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SEGUE READINGS AT MIXCLOUD

A bevy of readings from the Segue Foundation are now archived at MixCloud. My 2017 reading from The Republic of Exit 43 (in which I got to perform “Err-Residence” in multiple languages with the inimitable Anna Vitale) lives here:

Check the whole series out!

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POETRY & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Today at 1:30! Poetry and environmental justice, with outtakes into and out of books, dance, lyrics. Free and open to the public at Cal State LA.

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MENACING ARCHIVES

Soundless gratitude to Orchid Tierney for “Menacing Archives,” her thoughtful engagement with The Republic of Exit 43 at Jacket2, which offers an interpretation of collage as a ragpicking ecology, and leads readers across the sprawl of this site-[un]specific documentation of environmental injustice. “What kind of pastoral, then, is the hazardous waste site? How to make material and sticky its cancerous violence? Perhaps garbage and toxic waste should stick to us like burrs, not only because industrial contaminants pollute drinking water and soil, but also because they ground us in the infrastructures of failed regulations, racial injustice, and corporate complicity.”

Trucks dump garbage at Fresh Kills Landfill, May 1973. Photo by Chester Higgins with the EPA, via Wikimedia Commons.

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READING LISTS!

I’m so honored that The Republic of Exit 43 made it to the recommended reading lists for POETRY magazine of two vastly different writers I admire so well.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis includes the book among work by my heroes David Antin, Nathaniel Mackey, Anne Tardos, William Corbett, Ariel Reznikoff, Patrick Pritchett, and Carlos Soto Román, saying about it, “her title barely begins to cover the performances, essays, collages, analyses, and rigorous rage within.”

CA Conrad included Exit alongside new books by Ari Banias, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Jos Charles, Don Mee Choi, Allison Cobb, Claudia Cortese, Jennifer Firestone, Adam Fitzgerald, Peter Gizzi, Dan Hoy, Chely Lima, Layli Long Soldier, Hoa Nguyen, Tommy Pico, Stacy Szymaszek, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and Mia You. I’m off to order whatever I don’t have!

The book is still on the list of SPD Poetry Bestsellers. We’re all so grateful for SPD’s support of independent publishing.

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UPCOMING READINGS

The Republic of Exit 43 is slowly making its way across the continent this spring. Here’s the schedule thus far:

Segue Series, NYC, Saturday, February 11 POG, Tucson, Tuesday, March 21 University of Arizona, Tucson, Wednesday, March 22 Switch Reading Series, IPRC, Portland, OR, Saturday, March 25 Seminary Co-op, in conversation with Lauren Berlant, Chicago, Friday, March 31 Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Friday, April 21 St. Mark’s Poetry Project, NYC, Monday, April 24 Sector 2337, Chicago, Friday, May 5 Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, Sunday, June 4

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EXIT 43 GOES TO PDX

Delighted to be reading, alongside Brandi Katherine Herrera, from my new book in Portland next Sunday! Please join us at the Switch Reading Series:

Sunday, March 12, 2017

3/25 Scappettone & Herrera 7 p.m. @ IPRC

Switch No. 38 presents Jennifer Scappettone from Chicago and Portland’s own Brandi Katherine Herrera

Where: IPRC, 1001 SE Division, Portland, Oregon When: Saturday, March 25, 7 p.m. sharp

Brandi Katherine Herrera is a Portland, Ore. based multidisciplinary artist, poet, and translator, whose work in text, film, and sound explores the poetics of space. She is the author of Mutterfarbe, a limited edition artist book of color theory, experimental translation, photography, and poems, and Natürlicher, a chapbook of color swatch poems (Broken Cloud Press, 2016). Her work is held in various private and public collections, including the Seattle Art Museum, and Yale University’s Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, and has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions, performance series, and publications, including 23 Sandy Gallery, Cube Gallery, Poetry Press Week, Pure Surface, The Volta, Octopus Magazine, The Common, and Poor Claudia, among others.

photo by Dino Ignani

Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of writing, translation, and scholarly research, on the page and off. She is the author of the hybrid-genre verse books From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009) and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (just out from Atelos Press), and of the scholarly monograph Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014). Her translations from the Italian of the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli. She founded, and curates, PennSound Italiana, a new sector of the audiovisual archive based at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to experimental Italian poetry. Her installation pieces were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina Gallery in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, and she has collaborated on site-specific performance works with a wide spectrum of musicians, architects, code artists, and dancers, at locations ranging from the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct beneath the American Academy in Rome to Fresh Kills Landfill. Scappettone is an associate professor of various subjects at the University of Chicago.

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SPD STAFF PICKS: EXIT 43

Many thanks to Katherine Duckworth, whom I’ve never met, for singling out The Republic of Exit 43 among the teeming volumes of February as a Small Press Distribution Staff Pick.

Only 3 more days to snatch this and all other recommended February titles up at 20% off with the code SPDPICKS….Click here:

The Republic of Exit 43 by Jennifer Scappettone (Atelos)

recommended by

Katherine Duckworth

THE REPUBLIC OF EXIT 43 exists in the toxic landfill of the author’s childhood neighborhood—Scappettone, a poet, scholar, translator, and performance artist weaves the garbage of this history into part epic poetry, part language landfill, which at times feels like text generated from some corporate mechanism. Scappettone suggests in the underture, “when in reading you’re caught in redundancy, it’s because we’ve reached uroboreality, a point of spatiorhetorical choke.” Many of these outtakes have existed and will exist off page—but this book leaves ample room for the imagination of possibility for this project in alternate spaces as well as an anticipation to catch a future performance. Though it is worth a gander for the photographs, maps, and collages that are included.

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COPPER LYRES IN RESIDENCE: TUCSON

I’m delighted to be spending the upcoming break in Tucson & environs for an extended period of further research into the scarring processes of copper extraction, smelting, milling, distribution, disposal and salvage—all the bust & boom of modern and contemporary device-life being somehow driven by this ductile metal and its laborers. The University of Arizona Institute of Environment, English Department, and Poetry Center have teamed up with local artist collectives and activists to make this possible. Here’s the schedule so far:

English Poetics Research Group: Discussion of The Republic of Exit 43

University of Arizona, March 10, 2 pm, room TBA

Kore Press & POG Reading

La Cocina Restaurant & Cantina, March 21, 5-10 pm

201 N Court Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701

Scappettone will present some of her latest work (in the form of readings and choral performances) that surround copper mining, environmental destruction, and data. The improvised violining of Vicki Brown (Tucson) will open the show.

Join us for eats, drinks, and performances outside under the stars and twinkly lights at La Cocina. As part of Tuesdays for Tucson, a portion of the proceeds from the night’s festivities will go to support these non-profit literary worker organizations in Tucson, Kore Press and POG. A resource table with information from our local environmental activist groups will be featured. We hope to see you all there!

Talk and collaborative exhibit on copper landscapes, University of Arizona Art Museum

UAMA, March 22, 11 am in the Collaborative Learning Center

Jennifer Scappettone is a poet, performer, scholar, and translator who works at the University of Chicago. She is currently working on a series of choral poetry scores and researching copper-mining and its environmental impacts in Southern AZ. Her poetry collections include From Dame Quickly (2009) and The Republic of Exit 43 (Atelos, 2016). More of her work and collaborations can be found at http://oikost.com.

1031 North Olive Road Tucson, AZ 85721-0002

Bisbee, AZ: illegal deportation of striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders, July 1917

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