Post: From My Kitchen
It is dinner time and I am cooking in my kitchen. I am imagining you come up behind me. I think to say the moon is but a sliver and holds the sky like your hand on my hip. Of course you do not hear me, you at your own stove two states away. I think, the sand hill cranes have come back again, four summers now. I think of their wings held to the shape of a crescent. I think, if I were a crane I would leave the burgers to burn. I would fly east toward your long wooden table my wings like two napkins flapping. The sound they’d make like smacking lips.
Poetry Bio:
Karla Van Vliet is the author of two collections of poems, From the Book of Remembrance (Shanti Arts, 2015), andThe River From My Mouth (Shanti Arts, 2016) and a poem length chapbook, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit (Folded Word, 2018.) Her newest book, Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings, is forthcoming from Shanti Arts, 2020. She is an Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, and a two-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. Karla is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal.She is an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, artist and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Karla lives in Vermont.
Karla Van Vliet is the author of two collections of poems, From the Book of Remembrance (Shanti Arts, 2015), andThe River From My Mouth (Shanti Arts, 2016) and a poem length chapbook, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit (Folded Word, 2018.) Her newest book, Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings, is forthcoming from Shanti Arts, 2020. She is an Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, and a two-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. Karla is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal.She is an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, artist and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Karla lives in Vermont.
Upcoming classes & events
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Champlain Writers' Retreat
With Karla Van Vliet & Rachel Elion Baird
Van Vliet Arts
Saturday, October 26, 2019 from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)North Ferrisburgh, VT
With Karla Van Vliet & Rachel Elion Baird
Van Vliet Arts
Saturday, October 26, 2019 from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)North Ferrisburgh, VT
Writing: How to Find (Your) Source
deLuge Journal (an online literary and arts journal)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)Charlotte, VT
deLuge Journal (an online literary and arts journal)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)Charlotte, VT
Merging:
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Mountain rain echoes like song
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Discovered Poems |
Chapbook: Two: Black Birds |
Chapbook: One: Black Birds |
I started Van Vliet Arts in 2005 as a way of bringing together my three artistic loves: poetry, painting, and jewelry design. Whether I am writing, painting, or creating jewelry I face the same puzzle. It involves the question of placement and the creation of an architecture. The architecture must hold in place the juxtaposition of image, color, word, or shape. As I explore these different genres I realize time after time how each informs the other. That as I choose color and pattern in making a necklace I am sharpening the tool I use for choosing words and patterns in a poem. As I lay down images in a painting I am using the tool for which in poetry I place images on the page within a poem.
If you are interested in purchesing any of my work please contact me for avalibility and prices. Click Here.
If you are interested in purchesing any of my work please contact me for avalibility and prices. Click Here.
Alma:
Faces arose on the page again and again, as I scored the wet watercolor paper walnut or Payne’s gray ink clung to the pulp making line, the contour of a face, an eye, a lip, or rode across the water leaving mood and atmosphere, each face different. Over 150 drawings, each a woman’s face. I think of them as the soul within, Alma.
I was compelled to draw again and again the face, each woman arrived with her own expression, her own selfness. I covered my wall with these faces all looking out at me with their stories, their Alma (soul) Within, miniature portraits. One then another seemed to call out to me to be highlighted, and I began experimenting, using elements in mixed media and mounting on larger panels. This created a piece that accentuated the face; each sharply stark and striking.
Faces arose on the page again and again, as I scored the wet watercolor paper walnut or Payne’s gray ink clung to the pulp making line, the contour of a face, an eye, a lip, or rode across the water leaving mood and atmosphere, each face different. Over 150 drawings, each a woman’s face. I think of them as the soul within, Alma.
I was compelled to draw again and again the face, each woman arrived with her own expression, her own selfness. I covered my wall with these faces all looking out at me with their stories, their Alma (soul) Within, miniature portraits. One then another seemed to call out to me to be highlighted, and I began experimenting, using elements in mixed media and mounting on larger panels. This created a piece that accentuated the face; each sharply stark and striking.
Curent and Upcoming Events:
Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT || Disclosures Coming out of obscurity || March 11 - May 7, 2016 || click for flyer
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA || Over the Border: Three Vermont Poets - a reading with Karla Van Vliet, Liz Powell and Kerrin McCadden || Sat, April 30, Hawthorne Essex, 11 a.m.-noon
Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT || Disclosures Coming out of obscurity || March 11 - May 7, 2016 || click for flyer
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA || Over the Border: Three Vermont Poets - a reading with Karla Van Vliet, Liz Powell and Kerrin McCadden || Sat, April 30, Hawthorne Essex, 11 a.m.-noon
From the Book of Remembrance is a collection of love poems, but not typical love poems. These are gritty and confrontational, made of blood and spit. These explore relationship with the beloved, the one that makes our heart sing, whether in the world or the divine realm.
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on publisher's page.
on publisher's page.
Upcoming Events:
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My new book!
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Book Release September 1st! From the Book of RemembranceClick Here for more information
on publisher's page. From the Book of Remembrance is a collection of love poems, but not typical love poems. These are gritty and confrontational, made of blood and spit. These explore relationship with the beloved, the one that makes our heart sing, whether in the world or the divine realm.
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