Keegan Cook Finberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keegan Cook Finberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keegan Cook |
| FAMILY NAME | Finberg |
| SIGNATURE | FINBERG K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0971-7991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 and what made poetry. The focus is the September 1968 issue of Chicory, a literary magazine founded through the Community Action Program of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and written by mostly Black residents in Baltimore. By using methodologies from…
"What activism can learn from poetry": Lyric Opacity and Drone Warfare in Solmaz Sharif’s Look
The essay explores whether concealing humanness or emphasizing humanness is a more effective strategy for anti-drone activism that seeks to disrupt the conventional epistemologies of militarized surveillance. Building on Édouard Glissant’s decolonizing philosophy of relation and more recent theories of gender and surveillance such as Rachel Hall’s notion of “animal opacity,” the essay argues that poetry is one place we might find an answer to wha…
American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
This essay contends that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) invites an overdue conversation between recent scholarship in lyric theory and writing on racial surveillance, including material on bias in artificial intelligence and disciplinary policing strategies. I argue that Citizen manipulates received structures of the lyric as both a racial and a carceral apparatus and compares those structures to contemporary forms of racial …
Frank O'Hara rebuilds the Seagram Building: A Radical Poetry of Event
This essay brings together architectural discourse and literary studies to consider alternative possibilities within our understanding of Cold War politics. It examines poems that figure Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building as important to a radical politics and experimentalism in Frank O'Hara's early poetry. The figured Seagram Building – steeped in architectural modernist ideologies and nationalist corporate interests – works to open the possib…
American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
This essay contends that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) invites an overdue conversation between recent scholarship in lyric theory and writing on racial surveillance, including material on bias in artificial intelligence and disciplinary policing strategies. I argue that Citizen manipulates received structures of the lyric as both a racial and a carceral apparatus and compares those structures to contemporary forms of racial …
Frank O'Hara rebuilds the Seagram Building: A Radical Poetry of Event
This essay brings together architectural discourse and literary studies to consider alternative possibilities within our understanding of Cold War politics. It examines poems that figure Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building as important to a radical politics and experimentalism in Frank O'Hara's early poetry. The figured Seagram Building – steeped in architectural modernist ideologies and nationalist corporate interests – works to open the possib…
American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
This essay contends that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) invites an overdue conversation between recent scholarship in lyric theory and writing on racial surveillance, including material on bias in artificial intelligence and disciplinary policing strategies. I argue that Citizen manipulates received structures of the lyric as both a racial and a carceral apparatus and compares those structures to contemporary forms of racial …
"What activism can learn from poetry": Lyric Opacity and Drone Warfare in Solmaz Sharif’s Look
The essay explores whether concealing humanness or emphasizing humanness is a more effective strategy for anti-drone activism that seeks to disrupt the conventional epistemologies of militarized surveillance. Building on Édouard Glissant’s decolonizing philosophy of relation and more recent theories of gender and surveillance such as Rachel Hall’s notion of “animal opacity,” the essay argues that poetry is one place we might find an answer to wha…
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 and what made poetry. The focus is the September 1968 issue of Chicory, a literary magazine founded through the Community Action Program of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and written by mostly Black residents in Baltimore. By using methodologies from…
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