RobertFredeKenter

RobertFredeKenter

@rfredekenter.bsky.social

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

1,502 Followers 1,255 Following 566 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Incredible @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social @indrapramitdas.bsky.social you might like this.

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🌔@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

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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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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.

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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

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Conclave. Karl Tierney: 8 Unpublished Poems/ An Interview by Moira J. Saucer with Jim Cory / A Visual Poem by Robert Frede Kenter & Photos of Karl Tierney Editor’s Note: I met Karl Tierney (1956-1995) in the autumn of 1980 during my first semester at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. We were both MFA candidates in the Arkansas Writers W…

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.

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The Cartography of Melancholia: a poetryfilm – Amantine Brodeur The Cartography of Melancholia –  Process Statement The video aims to capture elements of nature and artifice by blending a mix of still images with panning and wide lens effects providing a …

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. 🎸

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File #447-B: Investigation into Artifact “The Poem” – Joshua Walker THE ARTIFACT — JOSHUA WALKER The ArtifactDownload My Dearest … An Audio Letter Author Statement This piece began as an essay, transitions into a prose narrative of found notes, culminat…

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

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Six Poems after Remedios Varo – Catherine Graham Seers as Birds or the Quest for Essential Materials after Remedios Varo To be a bird from a Varo painting is to be unlike other birds. Our vivid assembly of fine feathers operates outside laws you …

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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2 weeks ago

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."

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from THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS – Beatriz Hausner & Rik Lina THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS MOVING IN The house had remained empty for what seemed like several eternities, despite its prominent location in the centre of Paris. It was as if the walls had signed a …

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
icefloepress.net/2026/02/23/f...

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‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER ‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …

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

icefloepress.net/2026/02/20/s...

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‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER ‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …

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. ...

icefloepress.net/2026/02/20/s...

#Writing #WritingCommunity

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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

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Neighbors: Ray n Kay, A Poem – Su Zi /Memory Window, A Visual Poem – Robert Frede Kenter My process is live it and try to live to tell – Su Zi MEMORY WINDOW Neighbors: Ray n Kay (with thanks to Laura Baker) It is in the evening when empty houses are most lonely. There is no one t…

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

icefloepress.net/2026/02/18/n...

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3 weeks ago
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Constance Keene - Rachmaninoff - Prelude in B minor, Op. 32-10 YouTube video by ChrisWatch

A favorite

#jukebox #playlist #bskyjukebox #music #ConstanceKeene #Rachmaninoff

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Poem EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE by Robert Frede Kenter
excerpt
I wear monarch eyelashes for you
  I could melt for you   like a candied doll
 abandoned in snow

excerpt.

all eyes are on your august barrettes Art by Yasin Aribuga 
a young woman (almost mannequin like) surrounded by butterflies in and out of focus.

A poem of mine for #valentinesDay first published in VISUAL VERSE which is now archived at the Newcastle Centre online. Blessings and light #poem #ekphrastic #poetsofbsky

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1 month ago

sutures of limerence -- what an amazing line @vikkicwrites.bsky.social . (copywrite it) x🎹📖

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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …

@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social

go have a read!

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Ty so much for reading! 🎸 Hope everything is ok there, as much as can be. Blessings to your upcoming issue.

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Good poem!

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"What was our poison touch, of palm lines
centred on hands, opening chords
into the body, incisions rent inside
like wreathless layers of skin?"

Beautiful work, Robert. Always loved this poem 'Music #4'. Chasms and sutures of limerence projected through the lyrical spectrum ❤️

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#PoetryAppreciation: First I want to acknowledge and thank @icefloepress.bsky.social, @rfredekenter.bsky.social and Moira Saucer, who published my first chapbook, Dawn's Fool. Robert did some exquisite line edits on several of the poems, with a deft touch that added liveliness. (The collection

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Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement  feed-back loops …

My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. Calderón, curator

At the parade grounds of immolation,
we sit on our knees, for hours / Try to
stand up straight with
a wishbone lodged in the prism of
your throat,
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I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. Calderón. Love the collage banner.

Hand over hand, climbing over
indelicate industrial clamor, unrolling
typewriter ribbons to erase propaganda broadsheets / smear
the news and various
other kinds of puppeteer topographies /

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PROCESS Series
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social @seagoatscreams.bsky.social @sedserio.com @bimxie.bsky.social @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social @camwhelr.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @amaleenadamle.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social @ashpoet.bsky.social

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The Ourimbah Meditations – Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad THE OURIMBAH MEDITATIONS 1 The dark is a stealthy weapon,a vault to hold the errant childwho will not be reformed.The gloaming, a scaffoldfor her unruly spirit—feral being, dashingbetween thorns an…

Honored to share the work of Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social A new 10 #poems & #paintings #hybrid work for @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS

She morphs to a powerful owl,
eyes glowering, spinning her head
in the salt bush. They fear her—

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