Robert van Vliet
Guard the mysteries!
Constantly reveal them!
—Lew Welch
- many gratuitous details about me
- my /now page (what’s a now page?)
- blog: (fleeting)
- newsletter: Three Things
❡ My Books
- My chapbook, This Folded Path, is available now from above/ground press
- My book, Vessels, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in December 2024
❡ Poems
- talking about strawberries all of the time: Five poems (Rabbit, Empty Box, From This Height, The Far Country, and Sleeping on a Map)
- Dusie's Tuesday poem series: Leaving the Story Unfinished
- Guesthouse: Four Lessons
- Autumn Sky: Polly and Walls
- Otoliths: The Light’s Agitation and The Life of the Mind
- (...links to more of my work online here)
❡ My Name: Spelling & Pronunciation
- My last name is two words: van and Vliet.
- The “van” is always lower case (like the French and Spanish de, for example, or the German von). If my name starts a sentence, however, the “van” can be capitalized.
- “Vliet” is pronounced like fleet but with a V. (In the original Dutch, it is pronounced more or less exactly like fleet.)
❡ Socials (etc, u.s.w.)
❡ Diversions & Projects
- Video of me reading several poems at the above/ground press AWP (unofficial) offsite (virtual) reading [March 2023]
- Poetry Mini Interview in five parts: One, Two, Three, Four, Five; and some discarded snippets: Deleted Scenes & Bloopers [April 2021]
- My (Small Press) Writing Day [Nov 2020]
- The Pencil Tour: A browse through the pencil cups on my desk [April 2020]
- The Random Walk: Pairs of books from my shelves [May 2020]
- A Collection of Bookmarks [July–Sept 2020]
- A running list of the books I’ve finished reading each month [Jan 2019–present]
- The analogue tools I’m using at any given time