Keegan Cook Finberg
@keegancf.bsky.social
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
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
cup.columbia.edu
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-...
Our fam loves Baltimore city snow removal! ❤️DPW
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Our fam loves Baltimore city snow removal! ❤️DPW
And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !
This is from Myers’s WORKS AND DAYS (!)
Tonight!!!!
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is from Myers’s WORKS AND DAYS (!)
tonight 🌈
cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
tonight 🌈
This is a wonderful read about (among other timely topics) the interaction of autonomous learning and organizing within institutionalized spaces.. and both of their interaction with the left.
I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
www.publicbooks.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
This is a wonderful read about (among other timely topics) the interaction of autonomous learning and organizing within institutionalized spaces.. and both of their interaction with the left.
Oops! Gina Myers
January 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Oops! Gina Myers
One week from tomorrow, I’ll be reading and talking to Gina Meyers and Kristin Grogan about poetry and labor. We will be waxing on about the wageless and the low-waged labors that make up most of our lives. The bookstore is called Lot 49. Philadelphia, you are perfect!
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
One week from tomorrow, I’ll be reading and talking to Gina Meyers and Kristin Grogan about poetry and labor. We will be waxing on about the wageless and the low-waged labors that make up most of our lives. The bookstore is called Lot 49. Philadelphia, you are perfect!
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Yes, literally.
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Yes, literally.
Philly!! I can’t wait
Philly people! Save the date! On Feb 7th @keegancf.bsky.social, poet Gina Myers, and I will be talking about poetry + work at Lot 49 books; 6-7:30; pub after; flier to come; come come come
January 23, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Philly!! I can’t wait
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Philly-adjacent! On 1/27 at 4:15p ET I'll talk with Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak about the University Keywords book, but also how to approach the contemporary situation in US higher education.
If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords
If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords
January 13, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Philly-adjacent! On 1/27 at 4:15p ET I'll talk with Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak about the University Keywords book, but also how to approach the contemporary situation in US higher education.
If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords
If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords
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#MLA26 might be over but you can still save 30% on all
@columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including new books in poetry criticism by @xenoglossic.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @keegancf.bsky.social, and @afilreis.bsky.social. Use the coupon code MLA! bit.ly/4jBA1fP
@columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including new books in poetry criticism by @xenoglossic.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @keegancf.bsky.social, and @afilreis.bsky.social. Use the coupon code MLA! bit.ly/4jBA1fP
January 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
#MLA26 might be over but you can still save 30% on all
@columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including new books in poetry criticism by @xenoglossic.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @keegancf.bsky.social, and @afilreis.bsky.social. Use the coupon code MLA! bit.ly/4jBA1fP
@columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including new books in poetry criticism by @xenoglossic.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @keegancf.bsky.social, and @afilreis.bsky.social. Use the coupon code MLA! bit.ly/4jBA1fP
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I got to chat with @alixbeeston.bsky.social about Here Is a Figure for her @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Alix asks such great questions, and it was really a joy to talk to her about where the book came from and what it’s about!
If you’d like to listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/here-is-a-fi...
If you’d like to listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/here-is-a-fi...
Sarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I got to chat with @alixbeeston.bsky.social about Here Is a Figure for her @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Alix asks such great questions, and it was really a joy to talk to her about where the book came from and what it’s about!
If you’d like to listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/here-is-a-fi...
If you’d like to listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/here-is-a-fi...
Can’t wait to listen!
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Can’t wait to listen!
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Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Hi! Here is a free-access link to my essay on the War on Poverty, family abolition, and lyric technologies for @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Claire Grandy's brilliant special issue about "lyric beyond containment." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
“What Welfare Does to You”: Personhood in Baltimore’s Chicory
This essay explores how women and children writing lyric poetry about welfare in the 1960s and 1970s for a government-funded publication dismantled the white liberal imagination of what made poverty a...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Hi! Here is a free-access link to my essay on the War on Poverty, family abolition, and lyric technologies for @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Claire Grandy's brilliant special issue about "lyric beyond containment." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
I am also not at MLA but I approve this message.
January 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I am also not at MLA but I approve this message.
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I'm not at MLA but my book is, hanging out with @keegancf.bsky.social and flirting with Joe Brainard, as is only right
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I'm not at MLA but my book is, hanging out with @keegancf.bsky.social and flirting with Joe Brainard, as is only right
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This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Don’t miss it.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Don’t miss it.
Planning “literature and surveillance” for next semester
December 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Planning “literature and surveillance” for next semester
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The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
Reposted by Keegan Cook Finberg
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm