Keegan Cook Finberg

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a true gem! As someone thrilled about this book but also psyched about your next project, very apropos: "As we go on, we remember/ all the times we had together/ As our lives change, come whatever..."

Senior skip day coming up?!

Poster for talk at Vanderbilt on Friday, Feb 27th at 2pm. Talk is by Keegan Cook Finberg and entitled "Reproduction and Generality: Feminist Diets in Poetry by Bernadette Mayer, Adrian Piper, and Eleanor Antin." There is a headshot of Keegan and a picture of her book, Poetry in Genera: How a Literary Form Became Public.

I am thrilled to be giving a public lecture for the Vanderbilt English Department next week. If you are in Nashville, come hear me talk about social reproduction, diets, and poetry.

My new article in @nybooks.com on Authoritarianism from Below.

Child, young toddler, and adult standing at window watching snow removal

Our fam loves Baltimore city snow removal! ❤️DPW

And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !

This is from Myers’s WORKS AND DAYS (!)

Poetry, meanwhile, is invisible, contemplative, and unproductive. Against barbarism and nuclear devastation there is poetry, small and still, illegible to the folk yet indebted to them, flowing from their habits and speech yet utterly separate. If the speaker fails to do gender on capital's terms—work, church, bowling—she also clears a protected space for alternative ways of being, unproductivity, and creation to flourish in the dark, and she names that space: poetry. (From Kristin Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH

Also! Tonight:

Oh so good!

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.

Oops! Gina Myers

Feb. 7th 6PM poetry and labor a reading and discussion Keegan Finberg, author of Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public Kristin Grogan, author of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work Gina Myers, author of Works & Days Lot 49 Books 408 E Girard Philadelphia

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!

ICE Out of Our Communities! Citywide Rally & Training Learn what to do if you see ICE & how to get your community prepared. Saturday, Jan. 31 | 3:30pm Baltimore City Hall With sponsorship by many local organizations and unions.

Hi Baltimore!

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...

Yes, literally.

Philly!! I can’t wait

Too real!!

Poster with green and yellow background, four moody black and white portraits all with interesting hair, and the green and yellow cover of University Keywords with the text: Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak in conversation January 27, 4:15p ET Sproul 201, IC Dome In-Person and Livestreamed Free and open to the public Supported by the Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore College Libraries

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

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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:
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Can’t wait to listen!

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

“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...

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/...

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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

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.

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.

Bug pile of books including DARK MATTERS REGAINING UNCONSCIOUSNESS The Address Book The descent of Alette LOOK THE DREAM HOTEL 24/7 NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS Discipline & Punish The Watchman in Pieces

Planning “literature and surveillance” for next semester

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.

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...

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