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❡ Poet, teacher ❡ St Paul MN ❡ Vessels (Unsolicited 2024) ❡ This Folded Path (above/ground 2023) ❡ Mostly offline for the ’25–’26 school year ❡ Blogging infrequently at www.letterspace.org ❡ www.robertvanvliet.com
Iron & Wine too, in "Passing Afternoon"
09.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you wish you had more things to worry about?
Are you too comfortable with the state of the world?
Do you sleep through the night without long insomniac stretches of low-grade panic and despair?
If so, I have just the thing! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:
The Kessler Syndrome.
Stunning!
02.11.2025 23:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An extreme close-up of a strange little doodle: a circle bisected by a line, with two dots, one inside the circle, one outside. Several other doodles are almost visisble around the edges of the screenshot.
It’s entirely possible my next chapbook might coming out sometime in the near future.
01.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mine too!
01.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey, pressmate! Welcome!
25.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One of my favorite signs simply said:
“Read the Constitution.”
Several American flags on the busy street lined with people. A man with a t-shirt that reads, "YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME," and a woman with a shirt that reads, "The horrors persist, and so do I."
A lively, joyous, noisy gathering in St Paul today. The peaceful, friendly crowd stretched many blocks in every direction along Fairview and Randolph.
18.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Well, that’s what I’m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.” Huck Finn
18.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
07.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The distributor’s search result for a book with a light blue cover with yellow type: **ASTERISM Search by title, author, translator, or ISBN Q Becoming Altar New and Selected Poems Kyla Houbolt $20.00 < Pre-order
Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
30.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 8
It is October, so here is my poem, "October," published in Swamp Pink this month. Thank you to the editors, and thank you for reading. 🍁🍂 swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/oct...
01.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A copy of Henry Gould's newest book, Parmenides in Minneapolis, published by Contubernales Press.
Good mail day!
@henryghenrik.bsky.social
YES
15.09.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
chocolate oatmeal digestive biscuits
Darn it, now I want some Hob Nobs.
12.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
new from above/ground press: Against Perfectionism & Other Poems, by Jon Cone / @joncone.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Sally Potter’s Dude, Where’s My Car?
10.09.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sam Peckinpah’s Amélie
10.09.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Agnes Varda’s Deadpool
08.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Francis Ford Coppola’s Mannequin 2
08.09.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Farrelly Brothers’ Apocalypse Now
07.09.2025 23:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hold on, I think I know this guy.
04.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS, the book of poems, is coming. There's been a summer slowdown, but @contubernales.bsky.social plans to publish soon (probably September). That's a mushroom on the cover (shaggy ink cap, methinks).
28.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0je n’est pas un autre
28.08.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait a second, hold on. I’m still me? I thought that surely I’d be someone else by now.
28.08.2025 11:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Just saw this news and thought of you. Wordpress is less than ideal, yes, but I don't really have any suggestions except maybe blot.im? I've been using it since 2019. Markdown text files and a folder in Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, or Git.
28.08.2025 01:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And do you live in the Twin Cities? Hie thee to Next Chapter or Subtext where copies await you—
28.08.2025 01:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A reminder that I wrote a book that you could read during these dog days of the Sealey Challenge. It’s in three parts—the 1st 2 parts were originally one book and part 3 was originally a second book, so it’s kinda TWO BOOKS. That’s two more days sorted!
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/preor...
I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
