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rfredekenter.bsky.social
Writer visual artist publisher. FATHER TECTONIC, a book, is forthcoming ETHELZINE Press (2025). In tons of journals incl. Otoliths, Storms Journal, Cable Street. In anthologies: Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors), Book of Penteract (Penteract Press), etc.
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Today Ice Floe New Works Welcomes Stephen Paul Wren w/ a suite: Poems on running & the body w/ art works by Robert Frede Kenter. @rfredekenter.bsky.social #poems #poetsofbluesky #hybrid #collaboration #running Forget the pain in your knee and the overbearing sun. icefloepress.net/2025/03/03/a...

Excited to have a section from me sequence poem "soma synthesis" @icefloepress.bsky.social with stunning art by publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social l ink in comm ents

Boosting. Moira is well on the way to half of this goal, for urgent and necessary dental work. Can you chip in or share?

'How many poems are everywhere: what modern poetry can look like while children are dying under rocket fire? Suck my death. Suck my verse like a lollipop whore: we’re all icy.' Mykyta Ryzhykh at Ice Floe Feb New Works #ukraine #poetry #blueskypoets #resist #hybrid icefloepress.net/2025/02/28/5...

Gorgeous inspiring new artwork by our managing ed. Moira J. Saucer. #artistsofbluesky #art #painting

I had the honor & privilege of editing Robert Frede Kenter's Father Tectonic. It's a beautiful & impressive feat of imagination and memory of family life with a volatile father. Please consider supporting @the-ethelzine.bsky.social by pre-ordering Father Tectonic.

"Visionary in its appeal, the work deconstructs tensions of domestic love and violence, drawing acute parallels with a wider disorder within controlling patriarchal systems." Honoured to have previewed @rfredekenter.bsky.social's powerful FATHER TECTONIC – avail. from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Father Tectonic is just around the corner from ready for mailing. Support @the-ethelzine.bsky.social & this decades-long in the writing suite of #poems & #prosepoems (on #fathers, #patriarchy, #dream) "a startling and deeply vulnerable book." - Stephanie C. Smith. www.ethelzine.com/shop/father-...

Good poems at @icefloepress.bsky.social always.💙📚 #poetsofbluesky

Writings by Ukrainian poet Mykyta Ryzhykh/#vispo @rfredekenter.bsky.social #hybrid #ukraine "...kittens playing with us and tearing our throats out. As a result, our guts are scattered all over the earth. Wars begin with loneliness because no one loves anyone." icefloepress.net/2025/02/28/5...

Zelensky thrown out of the white house; 5 blistering #poems from Ukrainian poet Mykyta Ryzhykh today at Ice Floe. Yet another broken day in the increasingly broken world. I love you so much that the sky turns inside out but spending the night with you is a crime icefloepress.net/2025/02/28/5...

A joy to work & think together...germinative. 🎸

Honored to publish a deeply resonant #experimental work by #Canadian writer/#soundpoet/performer #poetry @seangmeggeson.bsky.social 🍁 with #asemic minimalist colourfield #image by series curator @rfredekenter.bsky.social "hot mediation lark pulls blam history" icefloepress.net/2025/02/24/f...

Read the story here and please donate if you can. This country is a cruel place for people living with disabilities

Playlist is coming along! 😁🎆❤️‍🔥🎺🎺✍️🎸🎶#music #poetsbluesky #books Will start dropping a few in coming days and assembling a full link (somewhere...) @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Yes and if you click below you can pre-order Father Tectonic at the #Ethelzine Shop. A #book & a first #broadside work &...

Diadem (2025) (c) Robert Frede Kenter

New Ice Floe Feb. Epic #feminist poems Constance Bacchus & visual art Vikki C. #myths #blueskypoets #photo #hybrid acts & data, marching about science trying to save her people before icefloepress.net/2025/02/19/n...

Love this father-daughter collaboration. A textured story of place in five directions: north, south, east, west, heart. ❤️

A timely and important piece. "Throwing The Bridesmaid's Flowers" – text and spoken word by @rfredekenter.bsky.social with music and production by me 🎼🎹 It was an honour to create the soundtrack for this beautiful, visionary @icefloepress.bsky.social collaboration. Do read/listen ❤️‍🔥 #hybrid

Diadem (2025) (c) Robert Frede Kenter

Father Tectonic is available now for pre-order. “Robert Frede Kenter has written a startling and deeply vulnerable book -- he leads us on a harrowing journey through time, and we are broken apart in an Eden of wounds.” —Stephanie C. Smith #alttext4me www.ethelzine.com/shop/father-...

an excerpt from my long poem about corrupt would-be dictators, various Draculas and other matters. My text, spoken word & images w/music & sound creation by Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social Part of our ongoing collaboration at Ice Floe @icefloepress.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2024/11/01/t...

St. Louis's historic University City Library was damaged in the 2022 floods, and had to suspend its author series. I am proud to be the first author reading in the re-opening of the series. If you are in St. Louis, this Sunday 2/23, at 3PM CT, please drop by: www.ucitylibrary.org/event/friend...

Up today at Ice Floe's Feb New Works project. An essay-collaboration with art (images & a gorgeous map); the tectonics of a San Diego neigbhourhood! Welcome @fbereaud.bsky.social & his daughter Chantal Lucas Bereaud to the month's mix of expansive works.

Delighted to share an essay about my neighborhood in which I collaborated with my daughter. Much ❤️ @icefloepress.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2025/02/21/a...

Very cool! Your musical choices always take me to great places @rfredekenter.bsky.social ❤️

Interpretations of art versus projections of self... A vibrant yet contemplative poem by William Atkins with beautiful artwork by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. In @icefloepress.bsky.social February New Works ✨️ #writingcommunity #hybrid

I'm putting together an extensive FATHER TECTONIC playlist in honor of variegated dynamics of the times, places, moods & visions contained in this longform #suite of interconnected #poems on #fathers, #patriarchy, history, memories. www.ethelzine.com/shop/father-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_-...

#alttext4me "Enter Father World" from Robert Frede Kenter's Father Tectonic.

Exploring art, time, memory and consciousness in a poem/essay by UK poet William Atkins w/a #visualpoem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social for February New Works Project! icefloepress.net/2025/02/18/a...

Trans rights Experimental essay poems by Rose Knapp @roseknapp.bsky.social and art by @seagoatscreams.bsky.social #2SLGBTQQIA+ Needed! I think of these as a kind of hybrid #manifesto #poetry #art icefloepress.net/2025/02/17/t...

Different and insightful interview.

Today a shimmering rush of an #experimental #prose work "down the moon" by Jim Meirose @jmeirose.bsky.social & a #vispo #collage by @rfredekenter.bsky.social W_y is the moon down ly_ng flat on t_e gr__nd? Get there. Get there. Get there. Get there. _y _s icefloepress.net/2025/02/14/d...

Honored to share 1 of 3 of my #poems, "Slipping Towards Dawn" from a poetic suite, as featured this month Issue #7 of remarkable journal Cable Street, chosen for publication by @danadelibovi.bsky.social. An honor. The full feature and the entire issue is online at: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...

So excited about this. My new poetry text, "Father Tectonic" is now available for pre-order at Ethel website. An intense collection years in the making - writing, shaping, recalibrating. We are also producing a single broadside companion work. Ethel is fierce press & Sara creates #books as #art.