The Poetry Project

Jennifer Scappettone

Jennifer Scappettone works at the confluence of the literary, scholarly, visual, and performing arts. She is the author of the poetry collections The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos, 2016), From Dame Quickly, and Smokepenny Lyrichord Heavenbred: Two Acts from (The Elephants, 2018) and editor of Belladonna Elders Series: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (with Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian, Belladonna, 2009). She has also authored the critical studies Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice and the forthcoming, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Anti-Fascist Resistance (Columbia University Press, 2014 and 2025). As translator she has published Locomotrix, devoted to the poet-refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and she curates PennSound | Italiana. Scappettone has collaborated with musicians, architects, and dancers to sound counter-histories of sites ranging from the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct beneath the Janiculum Hill to the Quincy Copper Mine in Michigan to Fresh Kills Landfill. She is a professor of literature, creative writing, gender studies, and environmental humanities at the University of Chicago.

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