Kristin Grogan
@kristingrogan.bsky.social
writer, professor, gardener, Philadelphia evangelist, spokeswoman for the lesbian agenda. Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
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Kristin Grogan
@kristingrogan.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press
The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP
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for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
I also want to see your selfies
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I also want to see your selfies
I want to see your library stamps, people!!
my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I want to see your library stamps, people!!
Ottawa you lucky bastards, go!!
hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come!
+ thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!
+ thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ottawa you lucky bastards, go!!
so will Elisa New finally make us retire the Reading Makes Good People argument or
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
so will Elisa New finally make us retire the Reading Makes Good People argument or
New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?
Reposted by Kristin Grogan
look, i’ll sow. you better believe i’ll sow. what im not about to do—what would in fact be unamerican of you to expect me to do—is reap
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
look, i’ll sow. you better believe i’ll sow. what im not about to do—what would in fact be unamerican of you to expect me to do—is reap
for no reason, here is Evie Shockley's poem "Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation’s Plague in Plain Sight)"
“You can sell drugs once," says Alessandra Serano, "You can sell a girl thousands of times.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147035...
“You can sell drugs once," says Alessandra Serano, "You can sell a girl thousands of times.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147035...
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
for no reason, here is Evie Shockley's poem "Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation’s Plague in Plain Sight)"
“You can sell drugs once," says Alessandra Serano, "You can sell a girl thousands of times.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147035...
“You can sell drugs once," says Alessandra Serano, "You can sell a girl thousands of times.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147035...
Reposted by Kristin Grogan
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.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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
"Mamdani isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy is" and it's just a picture the houseplant you neglect until it's on the brink of death then revive then neglect then revive then neglect and neglect until finally it dies for good
You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Mamdani isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy is" and it's just a picture the houseplant you neglect until it's on the brink of death then revive then neglect then revive then neglect and neglect until finally it dies for good
He couldn't understand why his teacher, known for the big library she'd amassed over so many years, had to sneak around to read.
"She just told us 'if we get caught, I’m going to get in trouble.’”
"She just told us 'if we get caught, I’m going to get in trouble.’”
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
He couldn't understand why his teacher, known for the big library she'd amassed over so many years, had to sneak around to read.
"She just told us 'if we get caught, I’m going to get in trouble.’”
"She just told us 'if we get caught, I’m going to get in trouble.’”
Reposted by Kristin Grogan
"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
reading Barbara Ehrenreich on widening inequality in 2008 is a trip because on the one hand its diagnosis is spot on; on the other, remember when $2 million was a lot of money
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
reading Barbara Ehrenreich on widening inequality in 2008 is a trip because on the one hand its diagnosis is spot on; on the other, remember when $2 million was a lot of money
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
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...
I’m doing this later today and would love to see you, New Haven folks
next week I'm heading to Yale to talk about Gertrude Stein, queer reproduction, Stein's love notes to Toklas, 1910s housekeeping manuals, long poems, archives, gardens, and unpublishability - come along if you're near New Haven?
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m doing this later today and would love to see you, New Haven folks
coffee shop playing the One Battle After Another score has really upped the stakes of finishing this paper
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
coffee shop playing the One Battle After Another score has really upped the stakes of finishing this paper
☁️ skying with Constable in the Yale Center for British Art ☁️
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
☁️ skying with Constable in the Yale Center for British Art ☁️
“Should women work” no, we should laze and lounge by a clear stream at golden hour, free of concern or obligation, all our needs provided and exceeded, the world a place of infinite gentleness and freedom
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Should women work” no, we should laze and lounge by a clear stream at golden hour, free of concern or obligation, all our needs provided and exceeded, the world a place of infinite gentleness and freedom
Reposted by Kristin Grogan
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
a series of the worst poems ever written called I Douthis I Douthat. Is this anything
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
a series of the worst poems ever written called I Douthis I Douthat. Is this anything
really hope Zohran can have a nap some plant-based protein and a nuun. My husband must be strong for his next challenge
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
really hope Zohran can have a nap some plant-based protein and a nuun. My husband must be strong for his next challenge
Reposted by Kristin Grogan
In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
god what a huge night for Handsomeness
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
god what a huge night for Handsomeness
right I need a Philly Zohran right now. I need a guy who will make every Septa bus a palace, a guy who runs on pure rizz and cherry water ice and I need it now
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
right I need a Philly Zohran right now. I need a guy who will make every Septa bus a palace, a guy who runs on pure rizz and cherry water ice and I need it now
so proud of my husband, Zohran Mamdani
Big day for those of us who are legally married to Zohran
deeply embarrassing to be down this bad for a politician and yet here we are. unprecedented mayoral rizz
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
so proud of my husband, Zohran Mamdani
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 ✨🌹✨🌹
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-...
✨ Now available wherever books are sold ✨
Use CUP20 for a discount from the press
cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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 ✨🌹✨🌹