🔥2nd edition of In the Blueprint of Her Iris is available for preorder 🔥
Poetry by Vikki C. with beautiful artwork by @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Read about our process and journey in creating this timeless collection. And order your copy at Ice Floe today ✨️
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Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
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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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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2nd Edition of In the Blueprint of Her Iris coming soon! with extra pieces!!
a collaboration between @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
help support micro mail-order presses -- we publish expansive writers and artists from around the globe! 🎸
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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Revisiting my two poetry collections from @animalheartpress.bsky.social and @icefloepress.bsky.social! Still so thankful they believed in these poems! 🩷🩵🩵
@ashpoet.bsky.social love what you've done here!! Honored. A sleepy social media site but always some phenomenal work exposed/explored/posted if the communities could be somehow built up and become more participatory and engaged. 💐🎸😎📖 #collaboration venues and brilliant creative websites!
Check out the new issue of The Prose Poem "Bloom" with work by our publisher Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social and others! #exphrastic #prosepoems 🔥🎸
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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).
Thank you for publishing and supporting work, Robert. Here is how it looks over at my website. In this space, I share your video "Consortium" which is haunting. www.maggsvibo.com/ice-floe-pre...
A remarkable piece we published by artist/poet activist Maggs Vibo @ashpoet.bsky.social for #veterans The 'after' and the years of service and "the after". #political #art #visualpoetry #vispo #artistsofinstagram. Pertinent always and now even more so. Ty.
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mouth as your hand - a collaboration between @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social from PROCESS project (an epistolary novella in process).
#spokenword #image #music #text #vispo #dystopia
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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
"In winter frost, dog lilies lie incubating,
dormant in shells of moths, destined to hatch infernal wings"
'Madrigal' – a beautiful visual-poem hybrid by @rfredekenter.bsky.social, Ice Floe EIC & PROCESS series co-curator🔥
A meditative balm for difficult times🌿
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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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PROCESS R. Frede Kenter. @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @thearsonista.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @bigjosh84.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @bbolander.bsky.social
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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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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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
Y’all, this is a phenomenal project. I’m not done reading, but—is biting wonder a thing? That’s how I’d describe it.
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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
@mjseyesopened.bsky.social publisher of Karl's book (2019) @siblingrivlrybb.bsky.social @bryanborland.bsky.social (SibRivalry publisher);
@rfredekenter.bsky.social #visualpoem and assemblage of feature.
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social (co-curator) PROCESS series.
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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PROCESS: today @amantineb.bsky.social curated @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social: contributors incl @stephensunderland.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @bigjosh84.bsky.social
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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curated by : @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social for Ice Floe Press. @heavycloud.bsky.social @roseknapp.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social @sedserio.com @jenwithwords.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social