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RobertFredeKenter

@rfredekenter

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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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

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.

08.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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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08.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Bravo. Sounds amazing russell. 🎸

04.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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File #447-B: Investigation into Artifact β€œThe Poem” – Joshua Walker THE ARTIFACT β€” 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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04.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

28.02.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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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28.02.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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."

24.02.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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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
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24.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜something–… ephemeralβ€”blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER β€˜something–… ephemeralβ€”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

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21.02.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜something–… ephemeralβ€”blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER β€˜something–… ephemeralβ€”blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …

BLUE BALLOON

*β€”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. ...

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#Writing #WritingCommunity

21.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

21.02.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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

A favorite

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzKM...

14.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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

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

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.

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

14.02.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sutures of limerence -- what an amazing line @vikkicwrites.bsky.social . (copywrite it) xπŸŽΉπŸ“–

11.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 estrangementΒ  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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10.02.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

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

11.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good poem!

10.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"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 ❀️

10.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#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

11.02.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 estrangementΒ  feed-back loops …

My new vivid NYC dream / memory poem @thearsonista.bsky.social Love & Hate issue Ty. Ingrid M. CalderΓ³n, 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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10.02.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a new poem at @thearsonista.bsky.social Guest ed: Ingrid M. CalderΓ³n. 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 /

10.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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 spiritβ€”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 herβ€”

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10.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 spiritβ€”feral being, dashingbetween thorns an…

PROCESS/ MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)(S) series continues with Australian-based writer/artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
a suite of 10 haunting poems/paintings annotations night highway journey to overcome fear #self #poems #paintings

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10.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ty so much Vikki, that means a lot. Complex, indeed. πŸ’”

07.02.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ty so much for listening Vikki C.
... you are always an inspiration. πŸ’πŸŽΈ

07.02.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sedserio Painted Thought is a website displaying the visual art, and poetry of Laura Kerr. Laura Kerr, along with her husband, Jeff Kerr, own Paradise Art School in Winnipeg

You can view the 11 visual poems I created for Laura Kerr's SEDSERIO project below!
Open, click the first two pages on the left...Kenter 1, Kenter 2. Takes you right there & refers forward and backwards to the Spotify interview πŸ’Ty.
Hope you enjoy. #glitch #visualpoetry #ecologies

sedserio.com

06.02.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listen up everybody..I was delighted to be invited by remarkable gallerist, hybrid-artist, poet, curator, visual poet Laura Kerr: to not only be featured w/a set of 11 inter-related #visualpoems now live at her Sedserio website, but also for freewheeling evocative inspiring podcast interview: 🎸😎🎀🎨

06.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cantus Cordis Mei (A Poem, Video Poem, Art & Music) – Sarah Raybould Cantus Cordis Mei On paper she has feathers, brittle hairpins that become ledgers for minor scales, her fury boils in chambers where fire and water cannot mix. If you are discerning, you may notice…

Sarah Raybould at PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)(D)S @sarahraybould.bsky.social
A beautiful 3-part vision of creativity, process, convergence, in internal/exterior struggle and realization. #video #music #poem #painting #collage #artonbsky

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