Robert van Vliet
@letterspace.org
❡ Poet, teacher
❡ St Paul MN
❡ inventions (above/ground 2026)
❡ 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
❡ St Paul MN
❡ inventions (above/ground 2026)
❡ 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
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The kids are alright.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The kids are alright.
My book is one year old today!
I haven’t done any readings since I returned to the classroom as a high school English teacher this year. Who knows, maybe in the spring.
Anyway, thanks again to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social for taking a chance on it.
I haven’t done any readings since I returned to the classroom as a high school English teacher this year. Who knows, maybe in the spring.
Anyway, thanks again to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social for taking a chance on it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My book is one year old today!
I haven’t done any readings since I returned to the classroom as a high school English teacher this year. Who knows, maybe in the spring.
Anyway, thanks again to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social for taking a chance on it.
I haven’t done any readings since I returned to the classroom as a high school English teacher this year. Who knows, maybe in the spring.
Anyway, thanks again to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social for taking a chance on it.
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Happy publication day to @luaz.bsky.social’s Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems! asterismbooks.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy publication day to @luaz.bsky.social’s Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems! asterismbooks.com
My next chapbook is even less imaginary today than it was yesterday.
“inventions” is a collection of prose poems accompanied by short poems and fragments.
Thanks to the perpetual @robmclennan.bsky.social, it will emerge from above/ground press in January.
“inventions” is a collection of prose poems accompanied by short poems and fragments.
Thanks to the perpetual @robmclennan.bsky.social, it will emerge from above/ground press in January.
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
My next chapbook is even less imaginary today than it was yesterday.
“inventions” is a collection of prose poems accompanied by short poems and fragments.
Thanks to the perpetual @robmclennan.bsky.social, it will emerge from above/ground press in January.
“inventions” is a collection of prose poems accompanied by short poems and fragments.
Thanks to the perpetual @robmclennan.bsky.social, it will emerge from above/ground press in January.
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This is next week!! Sign up to see some superstar readers like @rika99.bsky.social @jaredharel.bsky.social @thefoxmother.bsky.social @philgoldstein.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social @drsaephd.bsky.social @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @hilaratzabi.bsky.social @vivakresh.bsky.social @mordecaimartin.net
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is next week!! Sign up to see some superstar readers like @rika99.bsky.social @jaredharel.bsky.social @thefoxmother.bsky.social @philgoldstein.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social @drsaephd.bsky.social @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @hilaratzabi.bsky.social @vivakresh.bsky.social @mordecaimartin.net
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Midnight in the Garden State of Good and Evil
Down with Love by Law
Jurassic Mansfield Park
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Midnight in the Garden State of Good and Evil
Down with Love by Law
Jurassic Mansfield Park
Armageddonnie Brasco
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Down with Love by Law
A Room with a Parallax View
A Room with a View to a Kill
Children of a Lesser Gods Must Be Crazy
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A Room with a Parallax View
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Bob, and Carol, and Ted, and Alice, and Her Lover.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and the World's Greatest Lover
The Empire Records Strikes Back
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Bob, and Carol, and Ted, and Alice, and Her Lover.
A Room with a View to a Kill
Children of a Lesser Gods Must Be Crazy
Jurassic Mansfield Park
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A Room with a View to a Kill
The Empire Records Strikes Back
Children of a Lesser Gods Must Be Crazy
Jurassic Mansfield Park
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The Empire Records Strikes Back
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Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!)
Please join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...
Please join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!)
Please join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...
Please join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...
Reading Alter’s excellent translation of Job.
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reading Alter’s excellent translation of Job.
The existence of my next chapbook grows increasingly less implausible.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The existence of my next chapbook grows increasingly less implausible.
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Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...
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.
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.
Kessler Syndrome and the space debris problem
This feared space-junk cascade called Kessler Syndrome may have already begun.
www.space.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
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.
It’s entirely possible my next chapbook might coming out sometime in the near future.
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s entirely possible my next chapbook might coming out sometime in the near future.
A lively, joyous, noisy gathering in St Paul today. The peaceful, friendly crowd stretched many blocks in every direction along Fairview and Randolph.
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A lively, joyous, noisy gathering in St Paul today. The peaceful, friendly crowd stretched many blocks in every direction along Fairview and Randolph.
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“Well, that’s what I’m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.” Huck Finn
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“Well, that’s what I’m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.” Huck Finn
Reposted by Robert van Vliet
Reposted by Robert van Vliet
Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM