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indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
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Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · Oct 16
Announcing!
ICE FLOE PRESS reopening for Submissions Oct 25th.
Full sub prompt below at website link
Guest Editor Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social
We are looking for new, original hybrid work on:
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
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OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)
Ice Floe is excited to announce a new on-line project is opening for submissions on the 25th of October. We will accept work until Nov. 18th, 2025. In the spirit of experimentation, hybridity and c…
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"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."

'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.

Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙

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#poetrycommunity
DIASPORA What day is it when we both wake in translucence? A garden gate to climb over—just to say goodbye, bees motioning of honey, or death by habit. Because 3,000 miles makes us closer than family— love is created this way, knowing how brief we’ll be. Hands slipping from each other’s sides—running off course. Like wet babies a mother tries to bathe safely— mothers who still don’t understand their cries decades later. An old song opens my chest and names it foreign, its language teaching us how to kiss through a war. I wear my best dress for strangers who die after we speak— depressed colours breaking at the hem of violence— for the guilt inherited by voyeurs and canvases left blank. I’m absent when the piano falls out of tune because God can’t save us all. An instrument’s lungs eventually flood while it plays on—even when music is forbidden —even when every child is too far to hear the singing. Without asking—the water shows us our wounded constellations.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Ice Floe Press editor @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social feature at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #silverbranches series!💐
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!

Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.

Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.

We look forward to reading your work🔥
icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 14d
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ljensenlampe.bsky.social
Whoop! This journal deserves to be on this Best Of list ❤️ If you’re looking for a good home for your writing, send it to Ice Floe! If you want to read challenging, innovative work, pop over to icefloepress.net
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.

More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥

#writingcommunity
icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 8d
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
brechtdp.bsky.social Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · 16d
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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💯 Cable Street is reviewing an Ice Floe book in our 10th issue, which comes out next week. Small, indie presses cooperate rather than compete. I wish the whole world did that!

Congrats @icefloepress.bsky.social and publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social 💙📚
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 8d
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.

More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥

#writingcommunity
icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 8d
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
icefloepress.bsky.social
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
brechtdp.bsky.social Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · 16d
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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ljensenlampe.bsky.social
tfw your 91-yr-old dad lends your poetry book about your mother’s mental illness to yet another neighbor, this time an 80-something vet, and she loves it. @icefloepress.bsky.social #Poetry #ThanksDad #NoStigma #TalkSmackToAHurricane
Head and shoulders photo of my dad, smiling wide and wearing a ball cap
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Grateful & honoured by this beautiful praise for In the Blueprint of Her Iris from multi-award-winning poet and novelist Catherine Graham.

Ty to all who've purchased this book. Poetry by Vikki C. & exquisite art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social. Link below 💙
Praise for In the Blueprint of Her Iris Dreamy, hypnotic and musically driven, the poems from In the Blueprint of Her Iris unfold and release with lush transformation. Accompanied by Robert Frede Kenter’s evocative art, these collaborations complement and enrich one another. Charged and reaching, they move through liminal spaces and beyond, creating an immersive experience for readers to dwell in. ”Duplicity in every naked frame.”Delicate yet weighty, these poems and images touch light. “How I am obliged to hunt for something that outruns me.” — Catherine Graham (Put Flowers Around Us & Pretend We’re Dead)
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We've received some amazing work so far. Visual, sound, text hybrids - complex, layered and expansive 🔥

The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️

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icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 14d
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Y’all, open call at Ice Floe Press! Deadline November 30. I’m thinking of you @hollypelesky.bsky.social Y’all, they publish 🔥🔥🔥 #Poetry #Vispo #CNF #SubsOpen
icefloepress.bsky.social Ice Floe Press (Open for Subs) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 14d
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
icefloepress.bsky.social
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Poster for Sub extension for PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) 2 elements hybrid work Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Open till Nov 30, 2025 Send up to 5 works or 10 pages max Attach video works in Mp4 format/ sound works Mp3 poems and prose in word doc (with extra PDF attachment if work requires complex formatting) Send art and other visuals in 72 dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files a time of acceptance. Include an author bio and photo up to 100 words with submission. We are looking for video / photo / poems / prose /CNF /ESSAY /hybrids/ Songs / Spoken word/ Collaborations/ Translations / Transliteration. Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com Ty and looking forward to unpublished new innovative works!
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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from Conjure by Kate Siklosi from the Ice Floe Archives

This work of experimenting with my hands, of indulging in hand to object care and contact, is the way by which I process and work through the complexities of our world and my being in it.
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from ‘conjure’ – a work-in-progress by Kate Siklosi (on process & completed work)
I’m currently experimenting with a project I’m calling conjure, which features work created in petri dishes with water, ink, fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and …
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November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris featured at US arts and culture site Jerry Jazz Musician.

Thanks to Editor Joe Maita. JJM publishes work inspired by US jazz, history, arts and culture. 🎷

www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bo...

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November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Jazz is heart blood /sacred/intuitive/collaborative /inside & outside edgy, formal, joyful, classical /innovative. Honored this feature on my collaboration book w/ @vikkicwrites.bsky.social at Community Bookshelf section of wondrous Jerry Jazz Journal out of Portland OR. @icefloepress.bsky.social
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 22d
Lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris featured at US arts and culture site Jerry Jazz Musician.

Thanks to Editor Joe Maita. JJM publishes work inspired by US jazz, history, arts and culture. 🎷

www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bo...

@icefloepress.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Just a note:
In the Blueprint of Her Iris is now available for ordering from Ice Floe Press! Robert @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @icefloepress.bsky.social
Hope you are all doing well at HHR. 🔥🎸🎤🎴
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In The Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) Robert Frede Kenter (Images)
Now Available ! In The Blueprint of Her Iris is a collaboration between Vikki C. (Poems) and Robert Frede Kenter (Images). It is 69 pages, full colour, 6″ x 9″ dimensions. Purchase it h…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
icefloepress.bsky.social
Our Ice Floe Press editor Jakky Bangkong-Obi is this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Congrats @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social. Brilliant poet!
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 27d
'There are things I still want to confess to you when I think of you' 💎💓

Proud to present our writer of the month for the #SilverBranch project - Nigerian poet Jakki Bankong-Obi @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social

Quite a coup to get this writing feature.

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#poet #poetic
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
icefloepress.bsky.social
seems there is more than 1 Pissoir haha... So the UK journal is Pissoir; the tagged account however is - an Only Fans site.. 🤣
This is what 1 gets for not checking.
In any event. Do enjoy the poem & ty to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing my work (Robert Frede Kenter) @rfredekenter.bsky.social
rfredekenter.bsky.social RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 28d
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
excerpt of my prose poem "Year's End, London, 2018" "It was a season where/we all suffer through notions strung together on wrist/pendants, dreaming vivid textiles woven into blankets, /fraying. The children were experiencing heartache, loss, and/ trauma. "
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A recent prose poem by our EIC Robert Frede Kenter published in U.K. journal, Pissoir.
rfredekenter.bsky.social RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 28d
From @pissoir.bsky.social one of 3 poems published in their latest issue / a @salopress.bsky.social production.
excerpt of my prose poem "Year's End, London, 2018" "It was a season where/we all suffer through notions strung together on wrist/pendants, dreaming vivid textiles woven into blankets, /fraying. The children were experiencing heartache, loss, and/ trauma. "
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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rfredekenter.bsky.social
Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social

Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 28d
Ice Floe is open for hybrid submissions on the theme Process/Marginalia/Otherworlds.

I'll be curating with EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social🔥

Send your expansive visions. Hybrid = 2 mediums at least. Include an element of your PROCESS🙏

@icefloepress.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Ice Floe is open for a new theme project, Always expansive, we are looking for hybrid work: We want you to include/ consider something about process and margins of a - journey - include 2 elements in a startling way! Think juxtapositions, memory, visions, hybridity.
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Cover template for our new project (an abstract field collage of possibility in colour) A collage by Robert Frede Kenter -- trees layered and altered from an original, a notion of process and margins as well as visionary outerworlds. (c) 2025 Call for our new project send work to icefloeprojects@gmail.com attach video works in Mp4, sound in Mp3. prose and poems in word doc (with PDF attachment if formatting is complex); jpegs for visual work. Include an author photo and up to 100 word bio and a statement of process if its not clear in the pieces themselves. we will accept 10 pages for review, up to 5 pieces. looking for video / photo / poems / prose/ CNF / Essays / Hybrids / Art songs / spoken word/ field recordings / collaborations / translations etc.
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Bravo !💐🔥
upfromsumdirt.bsky.social upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 29d
who am i to argue with The Southern Review of Books' placing The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife as a Best Southern Book for October 2025? 😊

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The Best Southern Books of October 2025
A roundup of some of October 2025’s best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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congrats to Lynne Lampe!
@ljensenlampe.bsky.social
stonecirclereview.bsky.social Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Oct 26
NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)

"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"

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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Submission 🪟is now open. Today to 18th Nov send your extraordinary experimental delicate visionary works w/2 elements: #poetry #art #video #sound #prose #essay etc. We accept work at [email protected]
Unpublished vibrant process-based pieces.
include bio 🎋 @vikkicwrites.bsky.social guest ed.
juxtaposed images of city and lake (collages) by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025. Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission. VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION Send to icefloeprojects@gmail.com collage of plants by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025 bio of guest editor Vikki C.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The Book Bag is here. This week has been Wonderful. Written by superstar poet Harry Baker and published by Burning Eye Books, this charming collection definitely brought me joy.

Also the playlist and news and opportunities with shout outs.

Take 5 and dive in...
The Book Bag: Wonderful by Harry Baker
Well the week started well and continued in the same vein. Sunday saw us head back to the allotment (and me saw down a rosemary tree that was starting to push onto the greenhouse) while the weather held off, then I attended the online launch of Merril D. Smith’s new collection, I signed a contract extension at work, saw some meteor action and I harvested our garden crop of Jack-be-little pumpkins. I also found time to write what I think is one of my best pieces of the year, sent off a submission, and realised I’d lost edits my on a poem I really like.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM