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V. Joshua Adams

@vjoshuaadams.bsky.social
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Professing English at the University of Louisville. Poetry, poetics, philosophy, translation — plus old books, old cars, cat pics. Views mine.

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My cousin Michael made it out of the WTC on 9/11 and helped others do so. He acted heroically. I wish that his heroism, the heroism of others, and the deaths of all those innocents, had not been debased by our using the attacks to justify the Forever War.
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Went to Brazil this summer where the Association for Philosophy and Literature was kind enough to honor my book. There’s now recording of the panel available. DM for a link. Topics include: skepticism, impersonality, poetry, Stanley Cavell, postcritique, teaching, Larry David.
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Good cover
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
RIP
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/04/2026
Just finished this very rewarding read by @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social and can’t recommend it enough. The poems chosen to discuss are lovely to read, and the close readings taught me so much.
A copy of the book Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry, by V. Joshua Adams
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Moving my library and came across one I forgot about
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Didn’t think I could feel worse than when we invaded Iraq for transparently bullshit reasons 23 years ago. But I do. We have learned nothing.
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Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Annulet returns with Issue (9) and (10), a double decker that features the first iteration of our open folio "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025." So much is here for you to read. We're so happy to be back.
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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
CBP didn’t exist until the creation of DHS in 2002 as part of post 9-11 right wing fever dream. It became operational in 2003 and effectively has been a bastion of misconduct and human rights abuses every sense. Throw the whole thing out and start over.
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Sunday
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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A barn-burner essay from @manshel.bsky.social in the recent issue of ALH!!! “High School English and the Making of American Readers.” academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Saturday
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Mom turned up an end-of-term comment from my freshman year of high school 😬😬😬
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Bro almost had it
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026
seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
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St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Reid Forgrave
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
He really is doing all of it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
They keep saying this “didn’t you learn your lesson?” bit like murdering Renee Good was a flex and we’re all supposed to bow to their dominance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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.
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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.
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Time to start this one
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” - Mark Twain
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Liza Hudock:
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Went to the woods
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/12/2025
Thomas Merton, translating Chuang Tzu
So for your big tree. No use?
Then plant it in the wasteland In emptiness.
Walk idly around, Rest under its shadow;
No axe or bill prepares its end.
No one will ever cut it down.

Useless? You should worry!
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I find it funny that Bari Weiss's new initiative is all about bringing SERIOUS DEBATE about IDEAS THAT MATTER back to television news, but the combatants are all podcasters or dudes like Stephen Pinker, who is being asked to weigh in on a subject very far outside his actual lane.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 20/12/2025
Gorgeous new handmade book from Ange Mlinko and Foolscap Poetry www.foolscap-poetry.com
a cream colored book with a circle and square design on the cover: Darkroom by Ange Mlinko
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
Sign at the Weiners Circle: "F  k T  mp we can redact too."
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Year(ish) in review: published a monograph, concluded a reading tour, read Hegel, took a good office selfie.
Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry Past LivesFunny tweet about The Science of Logic Me, mugging for the camera
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie" Die Hard is a nostalgic allegory in which the mythical values of the American frontier triumph over technofuturist global capitalism. Grow up
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/12/2025
George Oppen, doing his thing:
Obsessed, bewildered 

By the shipwreck 
of the singular

We have chosen the meaning
Of being numerous.
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries
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Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Cover of Close Reading for the TwentyFfirst Century
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Passerby snapped a good one of the Ghia
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s a beautiful evening to be a democratic socialist
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
what terrifies these people most is that Mamdani started off in single digits and now he's got Staten Island magas liking his policy proposals. there's no role for the consultant class in an ecosystem where people run on principles
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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Sunday
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