A huge thank you to all who've supported In the Blueprint of Her Iris. 1st edition has since sold out 🙏🔥
We're delighted to announce that a 2ND EDITION is now available for preorder. It includes 3 brand new pieces ❤️
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Announcement!🔥🎸
The 1st printing of In the Blueprint of Her Iris sold out. Ty to all our readers for making that possible.
After thought & our ongoing collaborative process we decided to release a 2nd edition.
It's now in pre-order & has 3 additional new pieces!
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2nd Edition of In the Blueprint of Her Iris coming soon! with extra pieces!!
a collaboration between @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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New Ice Floe collaboration between myself & Canadian #poet Catherine Graham A full length collection exploring #ghosts, #ecologies & #history.
Vikki C. writes:
"a cinematic dreamscape fusing the phantasmagoric with our earthly proclivities" @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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New work by Robert Frede Kenter #hybrid in THE PROSE POEM journal @theprosepoem.bsky.social 💐🎸🔥@mjseyesopened.bsky.social @sedserio.com @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social
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Artwork part of New Year’s Eve, A Graphite Apartment by Robert Frede Kenter published in the journal THE PROSE POEM, for March 2026 (part of an ekphrastic project) where writers work from their own artwork. A row of houses (late 19th century).'Graphite Apartment,' photo-based collage with hand painted elements, Autumn 2024. robert frede kenter (c).
I have holes of light flooding my body. When Father asked me in which direction we should proceed, I said let’s head to the sassafras trees at the South Shore Point. When mother said to me, Oh look, the rose in the glass by the window is dying, I held my hand out and gave her another one. I spit the skin of the milk from the glass into the fireplace. Mother played Chopin on the black and white keys of her beige piano. Every baby born on New Year’s after midnight is photographed. I remember you said, you were one of them. That was many years ago. They lined three babies up in front of a birthday cake. You kept the photograph that appeared in the New Year’s day edition of the daily newspaper, and kept it between dictionary pages like one would an autumn leaf. Father said, A fool can make a joke out of their own person. I was never completely sure what he meant. Rose stems, thorns on a plant that never bloomed. Standing still by snow-covered ledges, tiny crowns, the webbed feet of crows, drawing in graphite on a folio, exploring haptic lines, a cluster of melodies, a cartography of memories.
"New Year’s Eve, A Graphite Apartment." by Robert Frede Kenter.
A new prose poem & photo-based collage w/ hand-painted elements #poly #hybrid #prosepoem #collage #photo #ekphrastic published March 2026 in The PROSE POEM Journal (web).
@jpiudik.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @sedserio.com @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social dream blur
Mid town mid gown swirl with symbols and light (Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2026) black and white high contrast image.
Mid town mid gown swirl with symbols and light (Robert Frede Kenter) ((c) 2026) #image #photo #vispo #blackandwhite #composition #artoninstagram #imagesofinstagram
I created this work as part of the organizing of the theme/prompt for PROCESS /MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)S the ongoing new @icefloepress.bsky.social series co-curated with @vikkicwrites.bsky.social.
An intense dream vision of earth/forest/ eco-political margins.
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front cover of Moon Writing a collaborative book Poems: Catherine Graham Art: Robert Frede Kenter Ice floe press (2026)
a visual collage in yellow and red... fiery shapes and energy ecological and of earth and human histories. by Robert Frede Kenter
a quartet of images upper two of the book spine (a bunch of Moon Writing) lower Catherine on left/ Robert on right
A brand new book available from Ice Floe Press: MOON WRITING - Poems: Catherine Graham. Art: @rfredekenter.bsky.social
from "Taken"
What crisis isn't sick? When death
brings back the groundhog, our dreams
trap etheric beneath the tongue
and an echo--
-- Catherine Graham
For sale at website
Today on PROCESS series an image/text work by @rfredekenter.bsky.social series co-curator & EIC of Ice Floe.
Vacuum-sealed, shed skin on
rockface, you bring a gift of feral bounty from inside wailing
boundaries, an armature through the air of burning trees.
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Incredible @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social @indrapramitdas.bsky.social you might like this.
🌔@mjseyesopened.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @thearsonista.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social @russellcarisse.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social
New Ice Floe collaboration between myself & Canadian #poet Catherine Graham A full length collection exploring #ghosts, #ecologies & #history.
Vikki C. writes:
"a cinematic dreamscape fusing the phantasmagoric with our earthly proclivities" @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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Entanglements - a poem by Karl Tierney Because I cannot point to some little Gibralter and say "That's the one!" like Queen Victoria shopping, I've let myself be the one who's picked. So when the last one came along, a veritable fan, those tin wrists and acne scars paled in comparison to a flat ass and ears that don't match. But both with broad shoulders, boy of boy could we argue like men and cut the mustard without the dreadful shame everyone's incessantly discussing these days on TV, in congregations, meetings of all sorts. To make a not-so-long-story even shorter, I got committed for life -- his, and then with no money left -- mine, declared emotional bankruptcy -- a preemptive strike at the next one. - July 28, 1991
cover of HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?: The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney, Jim Cory, Editor. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019
Publisher’s Weekly called Karl Tierney’s posthumous collection, Have You Seen this Man: The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney “an overdue introduction to an important voice in American poetry.” Patrick Nathan: “At the height of the AIDS crisis, Karl Tierney wrote dark and radiant poems about queer life.
Process in its final week!. Been a blast incl. work from: @amantineb.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @kerryrawli.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social
Karl Tierney was remarkable poet & friend of our managing editor @mjseyesopened.bsky.social. We've been planning this feature for years: an interview w/the late Jim Cory, editor of Karl's (2019) Selected Poems, + 8 unpublished poems, memorials, art & photos. #LGBTQIA
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POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER walking through swirling snowstorm face of my dead grandmother in the wind sitting in rented split/level house (upstairs the barking of a dog, outside the sound of Halifax traffic) On the television, Charlie Chaplin tumbling down stairs rising with a smile of human dignity shelves decorated w/holiday ribbons certain things of life brought from Pogrom village Russia If she had stayed to witness October her breath rushing off to Spain her eyes bright like the sparks of metal on wheels colliding Our life here, a constant struggle to maintain, the doors of our house, open When she died, the relatives divided her belongings, I pass through an alley, hear the sound of a boat in the harbour at the dock her hair swirls in a laborer's coat (c) Robert Frede Kenter
Today for #internationalwomensday I'm posting a poem of mine published long ago in a journal from Winnipeg, Canada.
This is a poem about my mother's mother, -- my grandmother - who came to North America, to Boston, from Odessa - The poem intertwining family memory & social histories. Ty.
New at Ice Floe Press Process series: honored to present a new poetryfilm by Amantine Brodeur @amantineb.bsky.social exploring image/text voiceover and themes veering between nature/culture, temporality and eternal rhythms.
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Bravo. Sounds amazing russell. 🎸
Today at PROCESS series welcome bigjosh84.bsky.social
Joshua Walker with a complex hybrid work involving text, sound and image.
Speak, reader, and the lines will answer.
The air between letters is older than the world.
Step lightly, for the ink remembers.
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PROCESS series Catherine Graham #canadianpoetry
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@mjseyesopened.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @thewingedmoon.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social
On our Process series 6 new poems by Canadian poet/novelist Catherine Graham after paintings by surrealist Remedios Varo w/ a visual poem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social
o be unlike
other birds.
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A new journey poem "Grace Periodic" from writer/musician @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and my co-editor at @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS SERIES & collaborator for the book "In the Blueprint of Her Iris" - an extraordinary talent.
"I've wandered remotely from the magnolia, and now we're over."
This week Ice Floe Process series begins w/ extraordinary feature from 2 leading contemporary surrealists in collaboration: Chilean/Canadian #poet Beatriz Hausner & influential Dutch surrealist #painter Rik Lina.
Enjoy these evocations of interior alternative worlds
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The 2nd piece this week was remarkable deconstruction of modernist/art viewing while partaking of modernist tropes & ruminative inquiry from experimental #Scottish poet & artist @mdbolsover.bsky.social
curated @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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BLUE BALLOON
*—very pleased to have a new #experimental prose- #Poetry - #Art fragment published with @icefloepress.bsky.social.
with thanks to editors/curators: @rfredekenter.bsky.social
& @vikkicwrites.bsky.social. ...
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#Writing #WritingCommunity
PROCESS series @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
This week on PROCESS /MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)S we featured a #hybrid #longpoem #elegy by writer/publisher Su Zi @suzi00.bsky.social w/a #visualpoem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social
your kitchen
your table,
your cupboard of waiting China
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