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Keegan Cook Finberg
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because my little dog knows me. writer. scholar. professor. recently finished a book about poetic form and the US welfare state: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-in-general/9780231219228/
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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30
My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
Poetry in General | Columbia University Press
In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP
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Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
In troubling the idea of childhood, there is perhaps no better place to go than children’s literature. Children’s literature is where stories of childhood are produced, ostensibly, for children; it…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
Three people having fun discussing work and poetry.
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Coming out of very fun conversation on Saturday and I would like to announce that it is wonderful to read and think about Stitch, Unstitch by @kristingrogan.bsky.social, which helps us shape the modernist canon in relation to how poets engage everyday, ordinary labor.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Book arts are never just books or arts.

Incredible work.
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2d
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
The 9000-page 52-pound book, entitled LIAR, LIAR, on display today at the University of Maryland. Sample interior page. Front of a postcard describing the project. Photo of postcard describing project: “9,296 pages document 3o,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump from his first day in office, 2017, to his final day on January 20, 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country's next president. All that verbiage is s3" thick, weighs 52 pounds, and it started like this. The disolution of the Delaware College of Art & Design, to whom Lead Graffti had donated 1oos of design books over the past decade, brought an invitation to redaim them. We found a few, which brought us another interesting find — a blank Coppic-stitched book with a spine about 36 inches wide bound by Ema Ishii Holdredge for her BEA show at the Corcoran School of Art in 2008. That book haunted us for several weeks, and we decided it was too audacious not to give ita Lead Graffiti shot. For a while, we pondered how to fill a several thousand-page book with content that made a serious point. The notion of the presidential untruths came to mind, so maybe there was some documentation we could "borrow?" Sure enough, in a few Safari minutes, we found a downloadable PDE from The Washington Post that we could massage into a typographic form we could use. We were off. Ray undertook the ink-jet printing of the pages, folding and inserting the red cover-weight sheets for structural support, and gathering and punching the folds for sewing. Jill did 99.8% of the sewing. At a 3o2 United gathering, we encouraged attendees to give the book a stroke. Shown at right is the head of the Delaware ACLU, who has excellent technique. LEAD GRAFFITI | NEWARK, DELAWARE| LEADGRAFFITI.COM|RAY@LEADGRAIETTI.COM”
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Anyone? Brian’s attendance is requested 💜
glavey.bsky.social Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 2d
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
kristingrogan.bsky.social Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 2d
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kristingrogan.bsky.social Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 2d
It’s a book for anyone who wants to think about poetry and the poetic beyond the line and stanza, for anyone who loves art and Marx in equal measure, for anyone bored of rigid disciplinary divides and airy invocations of “the public”
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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This is tonight! I’m very excited about it
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Listen up!
uminnpress.bsky.social University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 4d
🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0
​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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On Sat., Nov 15th at 7 pm, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org. bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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A week from today, @keegancf.bsky.social and I will be in conversation with Chris Nealon about our books at Red Emma's in Baltimore - come talk poetry and work and the state and feminism and so much else with us? 💗 redemmas.org/events/keega...
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
redemmas.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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bkadams.bsky.social
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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We are seeking a new editor-in-chief for ASAP/Journal—could it be you?? (Deadline will be extended!)

We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions!

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Call for Papers - ASAP/Review
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November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Don’t miss the feminist poetics event of the year!
kristingrogan.bsky.social Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 13d
Aaaaand if you want to hear more about this gorgeous book, Keegan and I will be launching our books at Red Emma’s in Baltimore next Saturday 11/15 ✨🌹✨🌹
keegancf.bsky.social Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 13d
Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.

✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨

Use CUP20 for a discount from the press

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November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
keegancf.bsky.social
Today is the official publication day for POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary From Became Public.

✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨

Use CUP20 for a discount from the press

cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
A toddler, adult, and child holding copies of POETRY IN GENERAL: How a Literary Form Became Public
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp - Volume 140 Issue 3
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October 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Today ✨
keegancf.bsky.social Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 26d
My ASAP16 seminar is Friday (with thanks to @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Claire Grandy). Come on by!
A picture of a schedule with the following abstract: This seminar celebrates the publication of our special issue of the journal differences, "Lyric Beyond Containment," forthcoming in Fall 2025. In alignment with ASAP/16's Worldmaking/Worldbreaking theme, we gather to discuss how lyric tropes-the speaking "I," the address to an absent other, or the brief glimpse of finely-wrought feeling-prove fruitful in theorizing material, historical, political, and literary forms of subjectivity, personhood, relationality, and reciprocity. Whereas these tropes are often yoked to the decontextualized figure of the poetic speaker, we suggest that they are vital tools for moving beyond notions of the poem as a closed aesthetic object, held apart from its world. Moreover, we suggest that these tropes occur across a broad range of genres and media, which are themselves illuminated through engagement with lyric theory. The seminar features authors included in the special issue as well as scholars and practicing poets who share our interests in lyric theory.
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Baltimore & DMV friends! Please mark your calendars for "Race, Aesthetics, Speculation," a one-day symposium on November 10. It's going to be an incredible day and I hope you can make it! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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My ASAP16 seminar is Friday (with thanks to @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Claire Grandy). Come on by!
A picture of a schedule with the following abstract: This seminar celebrates the publication of our special issue of the journal differences, "Lyric Beyond Containment," forthcoming in Fall 2025. In alignment with ASAP/16's Worldmaking/Worldbreaking theme, we gather to discuss how lyric tropes-the speaking "I," the address to an absent other, or the brief glimpse of finely-wrought feeling-prove fruitful in theorizing material, historical, political, and literary forms of subjectivity, personhood, relationality, and reciprocity. Whereas these tropes are often yoked to the decontextualized figure of the poetic speaker, we suggest that they are vital tools for moving beyond notions of the poem as a closed aesthetic object, held apart from its world. Moreover, we suggest that these tropes occur across a broad range of genres and media, which are themselves illuminated through engagement with lyric theory. The seminar features authors included in the special issue as well as scholars and practicing poets who share our interests in lyric theory.
October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
keegancf.bsky.social
I’m packing for this and feeling excited to talk about artistic things and also disappointed that I did not manage to invest in artistic clothes.
miriamposner.com Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Apr 25
Heyyyy never been to ASAP before! Will invest in artistic clothes.
ASAP/16: Association for the Study of Arts of the Present https://asap16.exordo.com Dear Miriam, Congratulations! We are pleased to accept your submission Network, System, Chain: The Structural Imaginary of SCM for the 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, scheduled for October 22-25 in Houston with a homebase at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

Abstracts by February 2:
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CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
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October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
We both felt motivated to understand close reading better, to make the clearest, strongest, case we could for it, and to do it together every step of the way. It's been a huge gift to think with Johanna in the making of this book, which we now offer to the world. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
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October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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kristingrogan.bsky.social
excited to see an extract of my book up on Lit Hub - on Black labor unions, racialised service work, and the blues poetry of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown @columbiaup.bsky.social @philipleventhal.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Baltimore area folks please save the date: November 15th I’ll be in conversation with @kristingrogan.bsky.social at Red Emma’s about our new books. Chris Nealon will moderate.

redemmas.org/events/keega...
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
redemmas.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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mitpress.bsky.social
Start reading the #OpenAccess edition here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
The Complete Stein Poems, 1998–2003
A landmark publication in computer-generated poetry drawn from the works of Gertrude Stein.The Stein poems of Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) were written betw
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October 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM