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❡ Poet, teacher ❡ St Paul MN ❡ Vessels (Unsolicited 2024) ❡ This Folded Path (above/ground 2023) ❡ Keep cool but care ❡ www.robertvanvliet.com
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AND FURTHERMORE, if you're in the Cities and into the intersections of art and science, come out to Milkweed Books tomorrow, 2/27, and hear me talk with Creature Needs contributors Kim Blaeser, Sean Hill, and Charles Baxter! (Excerpts below) 🐢🌵❤️

Did you miss my book launch yesterday? Don’t worry! I’ll be throwing an online book launch on March 15th. That’s right, you’ll be able to tune in from any place in the universe that has internet access. (But unlike yesterday’s event, we will not be able to offer you cookies.) Details to follow.

Tonight!

TOMORROW details here: nextchapterbooksellers.com/event/2025-0...

Looking forward to this book!

One week from today. It’ll be a real hootenanny!

Starting soon!

I’m excited that this event is just over 24 hours away! Trubba not: it’s online and free.

PSA: I’ve had to postpone my online book launch, originally scheduled for later today. I've pushed it back a month, to March 15th. More details to follow.

If you'd like to spend time on Sunday thinking about more pleasant things, like how puppet shows will be part of the government in radioactive post-apocalyptic England, I'll be in this online panel talking about the classic novel RIDDLEY WALKER. I'm the amateur on the panel; I'll try not to babble.

In case you live within easy walking or driving distance of the Twin Cities, this is a gentle reminder that my book launch is coming up in just under two weeks...

These two continue to amaze me every time I get to hear them read. If you aren't familiar with @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social's poetry, fix that! Ajanae's chapbook is coming this year, and Brittany's book is here: tinhouse.com/book/good-dr...

Two weeks from tomorrow!

Happy Bandcamp Friday! I have a new song out on Super Bloom, a wonderful compilation album supporting people affected by fires in LA. The line up of folks on this release is incredible! You can get it at this link: superbloomabenefitforfirereliefinlosangeles.bandcamp.com/album/super-... 🧡

This is sneaking up on us, so HEY! GO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT WITH TWO AMAZING POETS AND CO-HOSTS OF THE VS PODCAST AND ALL-AROUND WONDERFUL PEOPLE, @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social!!!

Hey, it looks like the book launch for my debut collection is coming up. Why not stop by? I will read things out loud and @cwahmanholm.bsky.social will join me for a nice chat. Plus: party favors and a scavenger hunt! Details here: nextchapterbooksellers.com/event/2025-0...

It is a gift to be able to make art right now, to spend time with other artists, and to talk to them about their art. I've got several such events coming up in February, the first of which is THIS WEEK, with @eirencaffall at Milkweed Books, talking about All the Water in the World. Join us!

#minneapolis friends, if you looking for an amazing lit event, Raki Kopernik will be here on March 6th: moonpalacebooks.com/events/18127...

Hey Twin Cities, wanna get in a sauna and listen to some poetry? HELL YEAH YOU DO! Come to the Great Northern's sauna village this Saturday and hear me and @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social read some climate-inflected poems. Maybe we'll pass out! Maybe we'll change your life! (Maybe both?) Come find out!

TONIGHT!!

Miss us?! Of course you do!! Don't worry, we are hosting a reading in a few weeks featuring @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social!!!! Come join us on February 10th at 7pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

the above/ground press postal increase sale, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Twin Cities folks! Join me at Next Chapter Booksellers, the evening of February 25th, to celebrate the publication of my debut collection of poetry. Local poet @cwahmanholm.bsky.social will be there to talk with me about my book and the process that led to its composition.

Next week! Come hang out with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social , @toddedillard.bsky.social and I as we read and talk poetry, all along with the MC stylings of @ketchiklein.bsky.social Register here: forms.gle/RAbb2eKZyQmH...

Last night Rosalia Scalia hosted our FIRST Literary Nights of the year with Liz Kellebrew and Mri Matthias. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/live/KFbVgra...

There will be two book launches for Vessels: one online and one in St Paul. Both in February. More details soon!

Tonight!

Next week is going to be A WEEK. But I'll be doing an online reading this Tuesday for the @notatawp.bsky.social NAWP (Not at AWP) series and I would love to see you. 7 to 8pm. I know I will need a distraction! Please come if you can. XO. Link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Hey that’s me! Thanks again to Christine for giving this poem a good home.

If you missed last night's fierce & lovely reading, you can find it (and all of our previous readings) here: youtu.be/vmSFNmpq-EI Stay tuned for the next HPH in April as we switch to a quarterly format...5 more stellar readers coming your way!

A gentle reminder that this event is imminent! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

It’s next Tuesday! Why don’t you stop by?

As part of the lead-up to the #Hoban100 centenary festivities, there’s a brand-new official Bluesky account for Russell Hoban, managed by @thoughtcat.bsky.social (webmaster for RussellHoban.org) and me. If you’re a fan of Riddley Walker/Turtle Diary/France the badger, etc. please give it a follow!

Hello, Bluesky! This is the official Bluesky account for author Russell Hoban (1925–2011), maintained by the people behind the authorized website at RussellHoban.org. We’ll be sharing news, commentary, quotations, and lots of info about the upcoming #Hoban100 centenary events!

I deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts today, and deleted my Threads account. I wasn’t really attending to any of them anyway. I remain at my blog, and I maintain a cool, detached demeanor at my Bluesky and Mastodon accounts. That’s more than enough.

Why not tune in? I’ll be reading from my debut, Vessels, which came out last month from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social.

When I travelled to NYC last week, I brought Pilgrim at Tinker Creek with me. It had, once, been very important to me but I don’t think I’d pulled off the shelf in thirty years. I wondered how familiar it would seem after so long. I started it on the plane. A few days later, I arrived at this page:

Omigosh, I almost forgot: I wrote a book! And now there are a few signed copies at Next Chapter on Snelling Avenue in St Paul.

Deep gratitude to Henry Gould for this rich and generous review of my book.

In one hour! Tune in here

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