Kenneth M Cale's Avatar

Kenneth M Cale

@kennethmc.bsky.social

lapsed scot. post-vispo word/image things. author of Greater Vegas Bleeds into the Dreams of my Cryogenic Slumber (Steel Incisors, 2022) and Midnight Double Feature (C22, 2025/SDP, 2020).

619 Followers  |  1,381 Following  |  24 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  2.2263

Latest posts by kennethmc.bsky.social on Bluesky

Preview
Michael Sikkema : Contemporary Vispo Conversations : Kate Siklosi, Dani Spinosa and Amanda Earl Small Press Intravues: Occasional Interviews with writers working and publishing in the small press ecosystem Interview #19: Kate Siklosi ...

thanks to Mike Sikkema for conducting this in-depth interview with Kate Siklosi, Dani Spinosa and me. Thanks to rob mclennan for providing the space for it. and for all he does. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/mich...

02.08.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
panic of letters, rolled relief print, ink on bristol, 2024 Eric Lunde

panic of letters, rolled relief print, ink on bristol, 2024 Eric Lunde

#asemic, #printmaking, #poetry

the panic sets in every one letters run

01.08.2025 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
reโ€ขmediate lit mag โ€” reโ€ขmediate submissions A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

our new call for submissions, [machinewitness], opens today.

don't worryโ€” you've plenty of time ! (subs close Nov.1) but we'd love to see what you've got.

Check it out at remediatelitmag.xyz/submit! โ€” and then head over to finish reading Issueโ€ข3, [Next Realities], while you're there!

01.08.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Preview
ART & ANNIHILATIONโ€“ July 2025 Guest Editor M. Forajter Contemporary ecological concerns are often countered with talk about environmental justice. What does justice mean to a corpse? Iโ€™ve read too many books where hapless environmentalist do-gooders trโ€ฆ

after a week of flailing around like a distressed sunfish, i present to you Burning House Press:JULY EDITION! (its 11:20pm, it still counts!)
Thanks to everyone who shared their work w me! I received an AVALANCHE of subs at the end of the month & was /floored/

burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...

01.08.2025 04:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
5.8โ€ by 8.3" sketchbook open with a 5mm by 10 mm grid drawn on the page. Within lines 6-10 of the grid are newly drawn anemic runes.

5.8โ€ by 8.3" sketchbook open with a 5mm by 10 mm grid drawn on the page. Within lines 6-10 of the grid are newly drawn anemic runes.

Post image

Today was a black, blue and gray kind of day. Working to fill this page with my runes
#wip #asemic #asemicwriting #art #ink #markmaking #fountainpen #sketchbook
#asemicrunes #runes

01.08.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest by James Knight โ€œYou do heavy facelift poetry You do the trick where all the human blemishes are disappeared from the wasteland and all thatโ€™s left is a neon reverieโ€ โ€”excerpt from James Knightโ€™sโ€ฆ

Iโ€™ve got three new poems up at @thearsonista.bsky.social , in @saint-remus.bsky.socialโ€™s Art & Annihilation issue. Hereโ€™s the first: The First Piss of the Day is the Darkest burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

01.08.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
โ€œSemaphore Trousersโ€ by Jay Besemer โ€ and here, at the end of words, the wall that shatters the words that would shatter it, at the end of my tongue too dry to breakโ€ โ€”excerpt from Jay Besemerโ€™s โ€œSemaphor Trouโ€ฆ

Dear Father, Safe at Present by @divinetailor.bsky.social is out soon. Meanwhile, you can read some of his work in the new issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social here: burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

01.08.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Preview
Midnight Double Feature by Kenneth M. Cale out now! We here at C22 are proud to bring to you Midnight Double Feature Directorโ€™s Cut by Kenneth M. Cale, the latest in our Open Editions chapbook releases. A mixture of analog and digital collage,โ€ฆ

Check out Midnight Double Feature Directorโ€™s Cut by @kennethmc.bsky.social from C22 Open Editions. A mixture of analog and digital collage, cut-ups and prose poems. Read for free or buy in print!

c22press.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/m...

26.07.2025 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image Post image Post image

What happens when writing lets go of meaning?
Asemic writing plays with the look and feel of language โ€” no translation needed. Itโ€™s about form, movement, and whatever your mind makes of it.

Featuring:

ADRIFT/, Rosaire Appel
Haiku 2, Donna Maria de Creeft
Shards, Marilyn Rosenberg

20.07.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am co-editing this project (along with the amazing @allisonanne.com) โ€” please check it out and consider submitting!

14.07.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Stone Corpse Press

We have the new @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social punctuated avalanche drops 7/18. Want to read some words about the book? "...a language conniption where meaning is pulverized and space, texture and sound are given full reign." So says
@njapoetry.bsky.social
Stonecorpse.com/joshua-martin/

13.07.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

I've been quietly making little bits of visual poetry this month #vispo

17.05.2018 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Diary 13.07.2025

13.07.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A large digital map pin hovers above a small table and chair; a thought bubble emerges from the scene, imagining another blurred, fading map pinโ€”like a memory trying to locate itself.

A large digital map pin hovers above a small table and chair; a thought bubble emerges from the scene, imagining another blurred, fading map pinโ€”like a memory trying to locate itself.

After-Location and a Place That Remembers Waiting.

03.07.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Deeply moved on a difficult morning in difficult times. So lovely to see 4 Ethels together. Honored to be a part of this configuration of wonders, radical culture & beautifully textured production, book making as textile art, a courageous ongoing project helmed by Sara L @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

03.07.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
JULY 2025 Guest Editor Is M. Forajter!!! THEME:ย ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene Burning House Press are excited to welcomeย M. FORAJTERย as the second BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today M. will take over editorship of Burning House Press onlinโ€ฆ

BHP are excited to welcome our July guest editor - M. Forajter!!! @saint-remus.bsky.social

THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene

โ€œmicroplastics + dandelion + flawed pearl + fruit punch + The Relic + baroqueโ€

Sendxxx

burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

01.07.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image Post image Radical First Person Narrative
80 in octoberl
Pumpl
That Trans Bitch
Inbetween Days
Splash
Florida
Another Them, Another Planet|
Sabine
Fucking Machine
March 3003
Negroni
Partial Carcass|
Light Penetration
Untitled Love Poem
When I walk in that room They are like who tf is this and it's me
ALUKAH

Radical First Person Narrative 80 in octoberl Pumpl That Trans Bitch Inbetween Days Splash Florida Another Them, Another Planet| Sabine Fucking Machine March 3003 Negroni Partial Carcass| Light Penetration Untitled Love Poem When I walk in that room They are like who tf is this and it's me ALUKAH

FUCKINGMACHINE
round the corner like
Snakeskin
you strut in|
beating off my future
bending the arrow around the stretch
what happened to embrace ?!
"Thighs"
specifically
into
Pumping
the wires
rearange
Beak
this call:
run me a deal
recharted
synthesizer
like
wet
to
my
bitch

FUCKINGMACHINE round the corner like Snakeskin you strut in| beating off my future bending the arrow around the stretch what happened to embrace ?! "Thighs" specifically into Pumping the wires rearange Beak this call: run me a deal recharted synthesizer like wet to my bitch

Working on a cover design for ALUKAHโ€™s self-titled chapbook!

โ€œTO EVERY TRANS BITCH.
DESTROY
THE WORLD
BURN
THEIR BELIEFS
BASH
BACKโ€

Also see the TOC and the poem โ€œFUCKINGMACHINEโ€

01.07.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Issue Five lineup: Ealhwine, fred spoliar, Cho A., Vik Shirley, James Knight, Paul Hawkins, CipherMyst, Laura Davis, Matsuo Basho, Ian Macartney

Issue Five lineup: Ealhwine, fred spoliar, Cho A., Vik Shirley, James Knight, Paul Hawkins, CipherMyst, Laura Davis, Matsuo Basho, Ian Macartney

An AI-generated image of a lush green valley with a river running through it. At the far end of the valley, a waterfall rises up into the sky

An AI-generated image of a lush green valley with a river running through it. At the far end of the valley, a waterfall rises up into the sky

Issue 05 is NOW ONLINE!

This issue sees ten poets forging their own authorship in different ways, using AI to augment / amplify / alienate / assist their own voices!

Read it all for free today, just click the link below ๐Ÿค–โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue05

01.07.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For Canada Dayโ€”enjoy a fabulous Canadian Poetry Journal! Itโ€™s an honour to have my Experimental Poetry Criticism included! Cheers! ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

01.07.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats! Looks amazing!

01.07.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

We are beyond thrilled to share that โ€œThe Continuous Presentโ€ has been awarded Best Art Experience at Raindance Immersive 2025. ๐Ÿงต

With @grrlrighter.bsky.socialโ€™s help, we made a little Highlights Video. Thanks for helping with the video!

Full Highlights Video here:
youtu.be/DL_2L0jzUhA?...

01.07.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Post image Post image Post image Post image 29.06.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for hosting this, Miggy. Apologies for being that guy and leaving early. Looking forward to the next one. All the best.

29.06.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

How lovely was that?! What a wonderful creative community thanks so much to everyone who came out today - thanks to everyone who read and everyone who listened and for the fantastic discussion on the absolute and infinite conundrum of INANIMISM! See you next month for reading two in the series! ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ“•

28.06.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image Post image Post image Post image

More Metympsychosis (for the impatient peeping Toms out there) @feraldove.com

10.06.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Books and Short Works All books can be purchased from Amazon.com by clicking the cover image or you can order direct from LJMcD Communications by emailing lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your order details. Orders of mโ€ฆ

Check out the LJMcD Communications catalogue right now! So many great works from so many great writers, you'll be amazed at what you find! Help support a small press today and buy your next favourite book!

Lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-short-works

23.06.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two Poems by Joshua Martin Dry and Simultaneously Entombed in Gnawed Saltwater ย  Haven blast microbe punctuation marks watching magnifying glass pencil sharpener butte...

Two new poems up today at Scud. Check them out!

scudlit.blogspot.com/2025/06/two-...

22.06.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Books dancing BuyFree pdf END_END published by C22 Press BuyFree pdf Radio โ€“ silence โ€“ radio โ€“ static published by C22 Press BuyFree pdf vows of silence published by Ranger Press BuyFreโ€ฆ

All of my books can be downloaded as free pdfs.

Or if you prefer print you can purchase print copies too.

nathanandersonwriting.home.blog/books/

23.06.2025 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

for the record, that twitter been gone for over a year now... any visual artists (primarily!) that follow me here should follow my burner account, @morethanmud.bsky.social - i used to post every few days there but im down to once a week, at best, now... but still...

22.11.2024 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

We're beginning to send out decisions, but we hope you'll join us @eliterature.bsky.social for a virtual preview of #Issue3 of reโ€ขmediate! While the issue is still under construction, we'll feature contributors to speak about their work with @digitalpoetics.bsky.social!

29.06.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@kennethmc is following 20 prominent accounts