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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs)
@icefloepress.bsky.social
indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
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Announcing!
ICE FLOE PRESS reopening for Submissions Oct 25th.
Full sub prompt below at website link
Guest Editor Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social
We are looking for new, original hybrid work on:
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
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OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
Ice Floe is excited to announce a new on-line project is opening for submissions on the 25th of October. We will accept work until Nov. 18th, 2025. In the spirit of experimentation, hybridity and c…
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We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
from Conjure by Kate Siklosi from the Ice Floe Archives

This work of experimenting with my hands, of indulging in hand to object care and contact, is the way by which I process and work through the complexities of our world and my being in it.
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from ‘conjure’ – a work-in-progress by Kate Siklosi (on process & completed work)
I’m currently experimenting with a project I’m calling conjure, which features work created in petri dishes with water, ink, fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and …
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November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris featured at US arts and culture site Jerry Jazz Musician.

Thanks to Editor Joe Maita. JJM publishes work inspired by US jazz, history, arts and culture. 🎷

www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bo...

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@rfredekenter.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Jazz is heart blood /sacred/intuitive/collaborative /inside & outside edgy, formal, joyful, classical /innovative. Honored this feature on my collaboration book w/ @vikkicwrites.bsky.social at Community Bookshelf section of wondrous Jerry Jazz Journal out of Portland OR. @icefloepress.bsky.social
Lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris featured at US arts and culture site Jerry Jazz Musician.

Thanks to Editor Joe Maita. JJM publishes work inspired by US jazz, history, arts and culture. 🎷

www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bo...

@icefloepress.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Just a note:
In the Blueprint of Her Iris is now available for ordering from Ice Floe Press! Robert @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @icefloepress.bsky.social
Hope you are all doing well at HHR. 🔥🎸🎤🎴
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In The Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) Robert Frede Kenter (Images)
Now Available ! In The Blueprint of Her Iris is a collaboration between Vikki C. (Poems) and Robert Frede Kenter (Images). It is 69 pages, full colour, 6″ x 9″ dimensions. Purchase it h…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our Ice Floe Press editor Jakky Bangkong-Obi is this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Congrats @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social. Brilliant poet!
'There are things I still want to confess to you when I think of you' 💎💓

Proud to present our writer of the month for the #SilverBranch project - Nigerian poet Jakki Bankong-Obi @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social

Quite a coup to get this writing feature.

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#poet #poetic
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
seems there is more than 1 Pissoir haha... So the UK journal is Pissoir; the tagged account however is - an Only Fans site.. 🤣
This is what 1 gets for not checking.
In any event. Do enjoy the poem & ty to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing my work (Robert Frede Kenter) @rfredekenter.bsky.social
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A recent prose poem by our EIC Robert Frede Kenter published in U.K. journal, Pissoir.
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social

Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
Ice Floe is open for hybrid submissions on the theme Process/Marginalia/Otherworlds.

I'll be curating with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social🔥

Send your expansive visions. Hybrid = 2 mediums at least. Include an element of your PROCESS🙏

@icefloepress.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ice Floe is open for a new theme project, Always expansive, we are looking for hybrid work: We want you to include/ consider something about process and margins of a - journey - include 2 elements in a startling way! Think juxtapositions, memory, visions, hybridity.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Bravo !💐🔥
who am i to argue with The Southern Review of Books' placing The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife as a Best Southern Book for October 2025? 😊

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The Best Southern Books of October 2025
A roundup of some of October 2025’s best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
southernreviewofbooks.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
congrats to Lynne Lampe!
@ljensenlampe.bsky.social
NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)

"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"

stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at icefloeprojects@gmail.com
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The Book Bag is here. This week has been Wonderful. Written by superstar poet Harry Baker and published by Burning Eye Books, this charming collection definitely brought me joy.

Also the playlist and news and opportunities with shout outs.

Take 5 and dive in...
The Book Bag: Wonderful by Harry Baker
Well the week started well and continued in the same vein. Sunday saw us head back to the allotment (and me saw down a rosemary tree that was starting to push onto the greenhouse) while the weather held off, then I attended the online launch of Merril D. Smith’s new collection, I signed a contract extension at work, saw some meteor action and I harvested our garden crop of Jack-be-little pumpkins. I also found time to write what I think is one of my best pieces of the year, sent off a submission, and realised I’d lost edits my on a poem I really like.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Y’all, check out this Ice Floe call for innovative hybrids, vispo, etc. and while you’re at the website, spend time with the exciting work they’ve already published! #subsopen #vispo #collaboration
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The submission doors are open at @icefloepress.bsky.social! Send us your original hybrid visions on the theme of Process/Marginalia/Otherworlds.

I'm honoured to be reading and guest curating for this call along with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

We look forward to receiving your work 🔥
Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at icefloeprojects@gmail.com
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at icefloeprojects@gmail.com
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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So grateful to accomplished author, translator and educator Jaclyn Piudik for her perceptive reading and beautiful praise of 'In the Blueprint of Her Iris' 🙏

Available from Ice Floe Press via the link below 🔥

@rfredekenter.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Ice Floe Press is opening for submissions 25th October – 18th November.

Honoured to be guest editing this series along with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥

We look forward to your hybrid work on the theme of PROCESS/MARGINALIA/OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S).

Full details: icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I understand that Mr. Stokowski. Remember - we open for #submissions for Marginalia/ Process / Otherworlds on Oct. 25th!
curated by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social

send your original unpublished #hybrid works to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com

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Deanna Durbin & Leopold Stokowski - Mozart 'Alleluia' & Wagner 'Lohengrin' Act 3 Prelude
YouTube video by adam28xx
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October 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Ty to Julian Cason, a lovely gentleman poet in Cardiff Wales for his beautiful reading of IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS, my new collaborative work with @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, poet extraordinaire! Avail from Ice Floe Press. @icefloepress.bsky.social website. (Easy to locate on google). 😎 #review
Hullo. Initial thoughts on:
In The Blueprint of Her Iris, a collaboration between Robert Frede Kenter and Vikki C…
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For #poets #readers #publishers #writers in the #toronto area On Nov 1. from 10am to 5pm Ice Floe Press will be at the TIFA Small Press Market Fair w/ our various wares! #poetry #smallpress #canada #books #prose #art #bskywriters
At Victoria Chapel U. Toronto
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Small Press Fair - TIFA
Come meet the people behind Canada’s independent publishing houses at TIFA’s Small Press Market. With 19 exhibiting small presses from across Ontario, this is a rare chance to explore the beauty and b...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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So lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris alongside Audacity of Form by @rfredekenter.bsky.social — one of my all time favourite hybrid books!

An absolutely beautiful pairing. We hope you enjoy these & have a relaxing Sunday, @danadelibovi.bsky.social 💐📚☕️

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Sunday morning—our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social enjoying this beautiful gift of books from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social — Thank you!💙📚
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Sunday morning—our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social enjoying this beautiful gift of books from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social — Thank you!💙📚
October 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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My mother’s family came to N. America to escape autocrats, dictators, pogroms, fascism(s). That she would appreciate NO KINGS Day falls on her birthday today, I have no doubt. Happy Birthday Helen🕯️/& a mother poem of mine published
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social first anthology, 2nd
#SilverBranches.
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM