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RobertFredeKenter
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
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Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC
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Robert spent time in Joshua Tree in March 2023 trying to facilitate recovery post COVID-post pneumonia that followed on COVID. Desert visions. Beginnings of being able to walk again, reconnect with mystery after fevers, pain, delirium, breathlessness. Always making its way into the work. Blessings.
Dusk sky in Joshua Tree, CA -- a swirling passage of light and motion. Version 1. a lone car, slow desert strip mall in distance, vast sky above. Yellow/burnished version Dusk sky in Joshua Tree, CA -- a swirling passage of light and motion. Version 1-3. a lone car, desert strip mall in vast sky above Yellow, green & monochrome versions.
August 6, 2023 at 10:26 PM
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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 Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder!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
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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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Thank you, Robert. Jazz – the erratic, wild genre. A mirror to the cultural shifts and political landscape with the beauty of the unknown. Blessed to be featured at Jerry Jazz – a venue that shares a similar vision and artistic values. Like the strive for freedoms, jazz will never be over 🔥🎷🎼
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 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.
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 14d
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
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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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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
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 8d
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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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A beautiful recognition of the musicality of this poetic collab between @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 8d
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 1:50 PM
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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
rfredekenter.bsky.social RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 14d
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
excerpt of my prose poem "Year's End, London, 2018" "It was a season where/we all suffer through notions strung together on wrist/pendants, dreaming vivid textiles woven into blankets, /fraying. The children were experiencing heartache, loss, and/ trauma. "
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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

icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
rfredekenter.bsky.social
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.
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 14d
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

icefloepress.net/open-for-sub...
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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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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Cover template for our new project (an abstract field collage of possibility in colour) A collage by Robert Frede Kenter -- trees layered and altered from an original, a notion of process and margins as well as visionary outerworlds. (c) 2025 Call for our new project send work to icefloeprojects@gmail.com attach video works in Mp4, sound in Mp3. prose and poems in word doc (with PDF attachment if formatting is complex); jpegs for visual work. Include an author photo and up to 100 word bio and a statement of process if its not clear in the pieces themselves. we will accept 10 pages for review, up to 5 pieces. looking for video / photo / poems / prose/ CNF / Essays / Hybrids / Art songs / spoken word/ field recordings / collaborations / translations etc.
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
excerpt of my prose poem "Year's End, London, 2018" "It was a season where/we all suffer through notions strung together on wrist/pendants, dreaming vivid textiles woven into blankets, /fraying. The children were experiencing heartache, loss, and/ trauma. "
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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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.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:27 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 🔥
icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 18d
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.
juxtaposed images of city and lake (collages) by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025. Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission. VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com collage of plants by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025 bio of guest editor Vikki C.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 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.
juxtaposed images of city and lake (collages) by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025. Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission. VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com collage of plants by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025 bio of guest editor Vikki C.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek: One of my more debilitating symptoms is hyperacusis—a sensitivity to sound & vibration—that causes pain & extreme fatigue. This #embroidery, sensorium (2018), depicts that hypersensitivity. I also wrote a piece of music about this. Listen here: ko-fi.com/s/872acbb154
In the centre of some bone white linen, there is a spine embroidery in thick satin stitch. Emanating from the spine are thick burgundy lines in an undulant oval shape. This oval is bisected across the middle. In the top half, there is a section outlined in burgundy filled with coiling blue lines and a similar section in the bottom half. The rest of the undulant oval is filled with fine coiling burgundy lines. The spine is very straight, the rest of the embroidery is very coiled and busy. Lia’s initials are stitched in fine thread the same colour as the cloth at the bottom right.
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 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

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"On my first encounter with Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter’s haunting collaborative collection, In the Blueprint of Her Iris, I was instantly enchanted by the echoes of luminescence and colour in its title. It primed me for my entry into a rich experience of eco-human landscapes and otherworldly realism, a terrain where the trembling phrase, the refracted word, emerge in softness...." Excerpt of advance praise by Jaclyn Piudik, author of 'The Dark Oar, Celan translations' [Full text in image above]
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
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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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October 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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brilliant gothic noir poem in red ink. another specular vision at edges of a riverbank by 1 & only @vikkicwrites.bsky.social.
"On the wrong highway,
you imagine skin around the found bones.

The poems honour -- they cloak and embalm
filter toxins and perfume the dying."
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 21d
Honoured to have two new poems out today in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social 's 'Bloody Bones' Special Issue #1.

My thanks to EIC John T. Leonard for including my work alongside many wonderful writers 🔥

I attach "Reliable Narrator".

Enjoy the full issue here:
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Reliable Narrator It is in the telling as much as the young mother stitching the fabric of a story to her child’s name. Fathers debate what makes the collection acceptable. That it must row itself cooly towards a lesser grief. My mentor coins the narrative a slow breakup. The complimentary flowers on the motel bed where the beloved betrayed every Sunday. Where faith doesn’t come easy to a preacher. Because poems possess—part angel or animal. What approaches, soon backs away into rearview —tinted and broken. On the wrong highway, you imagine skin around the found bones. The poems honour — they cloak and embalm, filter toxins and perfume the dying. A river is never far from a casualty, and pages lily and lantern, but refuse to float in one place. Because the current keeps moving with your tongue, lapping as language and dragonfly burr, the arabesque of a manuscript keeps the reader from drowning. It’s how we hear through whiplash and sirens—the opaline lake and its dropped oar; the body’s duty replaying the nectar of this world.
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 6:14 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
hool415.bsky.social Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 27d
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
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Sharing this insightful review of In the Blueprint of Her Iris.

Thank you again @hool415.bsky.social, for your close reading and beautifully articulated thoughts — especially how you address the word-image dynamic in this hybrid collaboration 🙏

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hool415.bsky.social Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 27d
Hullo. Initial thoughts on:
In The Blueprint of Her Iris, a collaboration between Robert Frede Kenter and Vikki C…
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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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cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social Cable Street @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social · 24d
Sunday morning—our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social enjoying this beautiful gift of books from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social — Thank you!💙📚
Two books and a candle. Audacity of Form by Robert Frede Kenter and In the Blueprint of Her Iris by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM