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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
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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
Author Note: I put these fragments together as a stanza in a poem, visual sequence of juxtapositions, breath, beats & musical tone, exploring links between history, gender rights, housing, impact & reach of capitalism/dystopia
#hybrid #vispo #poetry #resist #excerpt
icefloepress.net/acts-of-resi...
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
DESIRE PARTY (a visual poem) (2021/2025) (c) Robert Frede Kenter

#asemic #glitch #vispo #fields #rectangles #art
October 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In the Blueprint of Her Iris available for pre-order at Ice Floe Press website. Help support @icefloepress.bsky.social & acquire a copy of what writer/translator/memoirist @jpiudik.bsky.social calls "a third space where we luxuriate in the brilliant energy born of conversation between text & image"
September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
from a @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Introduce yourself Swansea style. Blessings to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & the crew keeping it alive & real in dark times. #poetry #showcase (poem from my early pamphlet OFFICE CRIME). #PoetsOfBluesky #poetrycommunity
September 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Magic Bullet Ray Gun Partisan (c) 2025 Robert Frede Kenter (excerpt from a forthcoming collaborative collection).
@icefloepress.bsky.social
#collage #glitch #visualpoem #colors #rectangles #asemic #glitch #bleed #vispo
September 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Closing out 31 days reading 4 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social & participation in @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social drive w/ #sameerproject to raise money for Gazan people. A (2012) long poem by political/lyrical/visionary Paris-based seminal Syrian poet, Adonis (now 95). If you haven't read his work - do.🔥
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For Day30 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Laurie Sheck's poems shapeshift selves, where history, science & revisited myth & nature are reimagined as converging of sense/imagination. Visionary erudite longpoems & suites. A remarkable sensibility. @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social @lauriesheck.bsky.social .
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Truly remarkable book-length poem by a fav writer, Ishion Hutchinson. School of Instructions. WWI anti-war anti-imperialist, post-colonial, a hallucinatory, spectral TourDeForce. Innumerable facility in forms @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social My Day 29 @fsgbooks.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Lake side (2025) (c) Robert Frede Kenter
#diptych #art #vispo #image #forest #photobased
August 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Day 28 new (2025) book by P.E.I. poet, fisherman & artist, Chris Bailey. Taut, humorous, vernacular staccato poems. Memory-narratives: sons/fathers, illness, working-class life, environmental resonances, bleak landscapes, rural/urban divides @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Today @sealeychallenge.bsky.social My Day27. Intense visceral poems of anger, pain, rage. Horror poems body image, male aggression, entrapment, rebellion. Juliet Cook's Your Mouth Moving Backwards @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Every Ethel is a gem; check out their website! @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
For Day26 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social A hybrid work, a 'reading' of a #Sartre childhood memoir. A meta-work on reading/writing, the act of re-(creating) interior spaces of pleasure/memory in texts, reading, authorship @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Penteract Press (2022) @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Day 24 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social reading luminous prayersong of a book w/prismatic poems /new spirituals, anti-oppressive testament, political visions/family, self & struggle. A deeply resonant volume by brilliant Lucille Clifton @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social (1993) @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Day 24 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social UNRAVEL by Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social Nigerian-Canadian poet, one of finest contemporary poets. Ancient to future colliding histories, visions, science, self, myths & apocalypse. Vivid, precise, a syntax complex & original. @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
For Day22 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social CM Burroughs 1st collection (2012) from @tupelopress.bsky.social The Vital System correlates mechanisms of body presence & self/other explorations w/a highly personal syntax experimental prosody /new forms performative expressions on identity, sex & grieving.
August 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Day 21 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 2024 collection Temporary Skin by Romana Iorga. from Glass Lyre Press.
Sometimes brutal, riveting, long lined interior poems mythic voices women & children in stress, talking & thinking escape, to weave their way out of claustrophobic situations thru dream & wish.
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Today @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day20 Im exploring visual poetry. I chose Lost Sonnets by the late Catherine Vidler @timglaseteditions.bsky.social (2018) & @guillemotpress.bsky.social collaboration/conversation Lens Flare by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social & Rhys Farrell. @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
1 of my poems from Visual Verse, now an archive. Poems & prose published in the project were prompts each issue to contemporary artist images; each issue responding to a single visual work. I was thrilled to write a poem to juxtapose to wonderful poet, film-maker visual artist, Sarah Jane Crowson.
August 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Emerging to acclaim(CBC Poetry Prize) & 1st book @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. Kyo Lee's 'I Cut My Tongue On Broken Country' interweaves queer & immigrant lyric, Korean history, family, language, teen years; new voice in Canadian letters @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #day19
August 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
For Day 18 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Montreal-based poet David Bradford's 2021 collection "Dream of No One But Myself" Brick Books. Exploring in-betweenness, joy/pain in its processes. Poems, narrative fragments, Vispo, exploring father/son relationship, childhood, US memories Form into style.
August 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For Day 17 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social Fatimah Asghar's brilliant 2018 collection @oneworldbooks.bsky.social. Post-colonial, anti-imperialist, ferocious poems, personal & collective, a work of mournful, richly textured family histories, Partition to America Diaspora.
August 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM