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Next Wednesday evening, December 18th, at 5:30pm PST.

Hosted by Unsolicited Press and streamed live on Youtube (link to follow soon).

Images of poet Anne Leigh Parrish and Your Humble Author, accompanied by the text: Poetry Unvelied: A Winter Evening with Anne Leigh Parrish and Robert van Vliet
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Vessels drops a week from today!

Then, the next evening, join me and two of my pressmates as we launch our books into the cosmos.

Details and link to follow shortly.

A copy of Vessels with post-it notes sticking out the top and sides, marking poems I might read at upcoming events.
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A poem of mine, “Island,” has just appeared at Foofaraw Press.

It’s been edited and revised somewhat over the years, but its roots are very old, dating back to 1992–94.

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Last, next.

106: Shenandoah (Birch)
107: Shenandoah (Maple)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new
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My author copies of Vessels have arrived! I guess it’s a real thing now.

You can preorder a copy here. Publication day is in exactly one month.

A copy of my book lying on an ottoman; a fire in the fireplace in the background

Finished in October

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I was recently interviewed by the lovely talking about strawberries all of the time. Read it here.

The experience led me, in the newest issue of my newsletter, to brood over the nature of story and self, and how we think about our own origins. Subscribe here if you want.

Finished in September

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Last, next.

105: Nat’l Parks (Arches)
106: Shenandoah (Birch)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new
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In about 31 minutes, I’ll be one of the readers at Unsolicited Press’s Literary Nights series.

Tune in here!

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I’ve just sent out the next issue of my newsletter. Subscribe if you’d like, or just prowl the archives. Most issues aren’t terribly informative, and I’m almost never as funny as I think I am.

Finished in August

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Last, next.

104: Great Lakes (Superior)
105: Nat’l Parks (Arches)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new
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Parmenides in Minneapolis in St Paul.

Henry Gould's chapbook, Parmenides in Minneapolis, lying on a table, with a small cobalt-blue mug neaby
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Had I been born about sixteen minutes earlier, Walden and I would have shared a birthday.

The ragged, broken spine of a very old mass-market paperback of Walden

Finished in July

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Last, next.

103: Kraft Plus (Berry)
104: Great Lakes (Superior)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new

Finished in June

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Volume 8 of my newsletter: incoming!

Detail from the cover image of my book, Vessels, showing reddened veins and pale green veins of a decaying leaf
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My book, Vessels, will not come out until right before the southern Summer solstice.

But today, just after the northern Summer solstice, it is now available for preorder.

And will you look at that cover.

the detail of a leaf, mostly pale green with darker green veins, fading to deep red at its spine, and the text 'VESSELS Robert van Vliet' printed vertically on one side

Finished in May

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Last, next.

102: Signs of Spring (Quaker Ladies)
103: Kraft Plus (Berry)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new
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Tonight at 7:30 (in about 6 hours), I’m one of the readers at Literary Nights, hosted by my publisher, Unsolicited Press.

I’ll be reading from Vessels, and I promise to be as inarticulate, bristly, & stand-offish as you’ve come to expect. It should be an extremely awkward trainwreck of an evening!

Finished in April

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Now playing:

Album cover for Fripp & Eno: No Pussyfooting. Brian Eno is holding a deck of what may be tarot cards. Nine colorful cards are dealt on the table beside him, in three rows of three. There is a small framed painting lying nearby. Eno's pale hair is long and straight, and he is made up with eye shadow, lipstick, and blush. Robert Fripp, wearing glasses and with a neatly trimmed beard which matches his curly head hair, sits facing Eno. They are in a mirror-lined room, so their reflections repeat a dozen or more times into the distance, growing progressively dimmer. A glass shelf is visible over Eno's head, holding a small collection of old leather-bound books. There are many other elements in the small, shiny room that seem indescribable.