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IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (IceFloe Press) | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST| THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES | Bridport Prize 2025 Shortlist | Pushcart, BOTN, Orison BSL nominee | Contributing Editor: The Winged Moon | Guest Ed.: IceFloe Press

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · Sep 8
🔥 Now available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥

IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises.

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In The Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) Robert Frede Kenter (Images)
Now Available for pre-order: 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. …
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Such kind words! 🙏🔆🙏🔆 A real pleasure to have a visual poem sequence with @icefloepress.bsky.social Many thanks to @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social for having me 🖤
January 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Today at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social is proud to present UK poet–artist @stephensunderland.bsky.social with a striking text-photo assemblage 'PENUMBRA/ Margins'– drawing on the French Surrealists, with inspiration from André Breton's seminal work L'Amour fou 🔥
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January 19, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Today beginning week 3 of Process/Marginalia/Otherwor(l)(d)s with dynamic meditative work by UK wonder @stephensunderland.bsky.social Truly one of the most innovative, multifaceted writer/artists working today. Stephen's 'visual/diaries' & notes from Paris. #vispo
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PENUMBRA/Margins (An Assemblage) – Stephen Sunderland
Margins PENUMBRA PenumbraDownload Stephen Sunderland is the author of film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake (Orbis Tertius, 2025), and visual poetry collections Eye Movement (Steel Incisors, 2022)…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Sharing one of mine for this week’s installment of #smallpoemsunday!

🌸 MORE FLOWERS 🌸 out in 2 weeks with @triohousepress.org!

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The 89th Constellation It is rumored that when we speak, we speak the language of God— a strange divinity of twig & berry loosed from the citadels of our tongues ... their bodies— now birds, constellated in the firmament. Oh, how we animate inside the translucence of every eye. We must be lovely indeed.
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Honoured to be part of this beautiful anthology celebrating the pivotal yet often unspoken voices of mothers across various cultures.

Thank you Renée and @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social for including my 2 poems along with a biography of my mother. Lovely that her photo graces the cover too 🤍
ballerinibookpress.bsky.social Ballerini Book Press @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social · 1d
NEW RELEASE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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🛎️ CALL for POETRY SUBMIS*IONS 🛎️

Christmas-winter anthology 2026
👇
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events

#writing #poetry #poet #poetic #writers #poetic
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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rfredekenter.bsky.social
So glad more copies of FATHER TECTONIC coming into being. Ty 2 everyone who bought, read & supported my suite of poems on the family. Each copy hand-made, labor-intensive project book-work from a remarkable publisher. Help support Sara & her #micropress & the book comes w/its own button! 🔘🪡 #poetry🎸
the-ethelzine.bsky.social Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 1d
“we buried Father in his best suit
beneath a radio tower
and left an accordion and a rose as tribute.”

Making a few more of Robert Frede Kenter’s FATHER TECTONIC (link to shop in bio) @rfredekenter.bsky.social
After the Days of Slaughter When the company shut down bricks were carried south to the border The ferry in the dock and the busses in the yard were no longer buried under 100-foot smokestacks The man in the moon hid his face from the bar of the revolving restaurant in the multinational hotel The light from his cigar gone out we buried Father in his best suit beneath a radio tower and left an accordion and a rose as tribute. All the painters came north to see trees shed leaves of brilliant colour Voices of ghosts crept out of the lakes Fish jumped 200-feet into the cradle of the sky
January 18, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Brilliant! Glad to see this is now in print. A wonderful international anthology, evocations of mothers & children. Was honored to participate; to be invited to write the intro, and to have 2 new poems (on my mother) featured within. Copies now available from @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social 💐 #books
ballerinibookpress.bsky.social Ballerini Book Press @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social · 1d
NEW RELEASE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Honoured to be part of this beautiful anthology celebrating the pivotal yet often unspoken voices of mothers across various cultures.

Thank you Renée and @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social for including my 2 poems along with a biography of my mother. Lovely that her photo graces the cover too 🤍
ballerinibookpress.bsky.social Ballerini Book Press @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social · 1d
NEW RELEASE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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ballerinibookpress.bsky.social
NEW RELEASE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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icefloepress.bsky.social
curated by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social w/ tech assistance from @mjseyesopened.bsky.social
also see:
@camwhelr.bsky.social @kerryrawli.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social & many more works to come! 🔥
January/Feb we keep the cold/ the ICE away.
January 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Watch "Aftermath (St. Jude's Dress) by Canadian #trans #artist/poet activist Shannon Quinn.
A prayer #performance #video as part of our PROCESS /MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)S project now running at our website. Don't forget to subscribe for free on our home page.

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Aftermath (St. Jude’s Dress). A Video Poem Performance – Shannon Quinn
AFTERMATH (St. Jude’s Dress) — Shannon Quinn Author Note: For this piece I collected 75 prayers from participants. Parameters I observed were that I would not read the prayers and …
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January 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Thank you @vikkicwrites.bsky.social — your contributions to Cable Street have been so beautiful!
vikkicwrites.bsky.social Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 4d
Submission opportunity! Poets, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social is a wonderful journal showcasing brilliant work across cultures and languages. Send your best poetry and poetry translations to @danadelibovi.bsky.social by 1 March for their Spring issue. Up to 6 poems 🔥

#writingcommunity #poetry
danadelibovi.bsky.social Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 5d
POETS! I'm poetry editor at Cable Street, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social —please send your poetry and poetry translations my way for our Spring issue. Word doc or Google docs link, up to 6 poems. Deadline March 1. Send directly to me at: [email protected] #poetry #translation
January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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My own little contribution to a fairy-tale @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social TopTweetTuesday affair
I wrote a micro based on a reading of piece by #Satie *like a childhood fever dream*

Tiny Tale
quiet carnival/
a carousel of flame horse o horse/
your circumnembutol

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Je te veux
YouTube video by Klára Körmendi - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Delighted to receive my contributor copy of Bacopa Literary Review 2025 featuring the winners & contributors selected from their 2025 contest window.

Lovely to see my poem 'Luminaries' in print alongside accomplished international works. Huge thanks to the editors & congratulations to all 🩵
Bacopa Literary Review 2025, published by Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Luminaries It's about therapy only the valley-bone knows. Hard to locate without a guide to where I was last seen. The chest sunken with disorder, stripped of calm and birch. Here’s where vultures commune without the grief of human attraction. I’d choose a plateau to graze with endangered beasts, but this slant is made for us, with its rain and alien descent. Mother says the loves that matter blossom when the sky turns. As you transition from singular, to touching the woman in the mirror. Like hinterlands beg the air to yellow, to carry us as wheat, as gust – agent and change. Night is a complex prescription. Sometimes you glisk the stones, discern white pills from the foaming sea mouth. Sometimes you kiss me in the middle of my ex-life, the field platonic. In the end, what the fires spared, stayed equally radiant. What’s a body to surrender? The chance of oversleeping as his ribcage glows? Tonight, crosswinds plead fragrant and oleander seeps into the blood. For the first time since I quit losing, neon leads to your door – a glint of where the key should be. It’s easy being adored in exile. But how orphic to say we are finally refuged? Able to take our shoes off without ghosting. To lose it all, and still find evidence – porchlit, riverworn. Dawn, low in his rough hands, his body oiled for a banquet. In its own dull sheen, the weathervane unhinged in some accidental blessing. My eyes, another animal’s eyes – giving away nothing for free. and still find evidence – porchlit, riverworn. Dawn, low in his rough hands, his body oiled for a banquet. In its own dull sheen, the weathervane unhinged in some accidental blessing. My eyes, another animal's eyes – giving away nothing for free.
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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"The body struggles to find meaning outside of semantics; which is to say, the body again proves it is a language we are becoming increasingly divorced from..."

Montreal-based poet-performer Nathanael Jones, "Field Notes +1" — a sound work & prose poem.

At Ice Floe PROCESS. Check it out 🔥
January 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of Bacopa Literary Review 2025 featuring the winners & contributors selected from their 2025 contest window.

Lovely to see my poem 'Luminaries' in print alongside accomplished international works. Huge thanks to the editors & congratulations to all 🩵
Bacopa Literary Review 2025, published by Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Luminaries It's about therapy only the valley-bone knows. Hard to locate without a guide to where I was last seen. The chest sunken with disorder, stripped of calm and birch. Here’s where vultures commune without the grief of human attraction. I’d choose a plateau to graze with endangered beasts, but this slant is made for us, with its rain and alien descent. Mother says the loves that matter blossom when the sky turns. As you transition from singular, to touching the woman in the mirror. Like hinterlands beg the air to yellow, to carry us as wheat, as gust – agent and change. Night is a complex prescription. Sometimes you glisk the stones, discern white pills from the foaming sea mouth. Sometimes you kiss me in the middle of my ex-life, the field platonic. In the end, what the fires spared, stayed equally radiant. What’s a body to surrender? The chance of oversleeping as his ribcage glows? Tonight, crosswinds plead fragrant and oleander seeps into the blood. For the first time since I quit losing, neon leads to your door – a glint of where the key should be. It’s easy being adored in exile. But how orphic to say we are finally refuged? Able to take our shoes off without ghosting. To lose it all, and still find evidence – porchlit, riverworn. Dawn, low in his rough hands, his body oiled for a banquet. In its own dull sheen, the weathervane unhinged in some accidental blessing. My eyes, another animal’s eyes – giving away nothing for free. and still find evidence – porchlit, riverworn. Dawn, low in his rough hands, his body oiled for a banquet. In its own dull sheen, the weathervane unhinged in some accidental blessing. My eyes, another animal's eyes – giving away nothing for free.
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Submission opportunity! Poets, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social is a wonderful journal showcasing brilliant work across cultures and languages. Send your best poetry and poetry translations to @danadelibovi.bsky.social by 1 March for their Spring issue. Up to 6 poems 🔥

#writingcommunity #poetry
danadelibovi.bsky.social Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 5d
POETS! I'm poetry editor at Cable Street, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social —please send your poetry and poetry translations my way for our Spring issue. Word doc or Google docs link, up to 6 poems. Deadline March 1. Send directly to me at: [email protected] #poetry #translation
Lake Michigan, USA, white caps on blue water with a red and white light house.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Winterscape with yarrow
Watercolor painting of a winter landscape: a snow-covered field with silhouettes of trees in the distance, forming something like an island in an ocean of white under an overcast sky. In the foreground, a dry, lonely-looking yarrow adds to the sense of alienation. I think it's cold there.
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
More from Burgi Zenhaeusern 💙

“I keep leaving from where / I left without arriving.”

from WHITE DOOR (Carbonation Press)

@burgi.bsky.social
I CAN'T TRANSLATE MY ORIGINS Sliver of slate at best bouncing across shimmer toward a bleeding horizon, haze without distance closing in. I keep leaving from where I left without arriving. The shimmer keeps beckoning, and so does the slim rock I weigh between forefingers and thumb. I stand sideways, shift my weight, and concentric circles mark its path, and where it sinks. Then silence.
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Grateful to @thetls.bsky.social for giving this poem a home:
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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By this law the knees are laced with abandon.

- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
A Maiden When I found your face on a pillow of leaves you had already erased it. A nest so heavy can stay in the heavens only by reversal. By this law the knees are laced with abandon. I said to the young man. If watching is the manufacturer, and I lose you what angel takes the place of a dowry or distance in this leaf action?
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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A new imagistic re-imagining of a fairytale narrative with at least 2 invented words. Here, perhaps in a modern context – but still old at heart. (I think you can guess the tale).

'Not All Light Be Equal'

Thank you for this wonderful theme @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🤍

#writingcommunity #TTT
Not All Light Be Equal Domestically,  it’s poor-light, the cause of such poor-sight, an ash-riddled name among dirty occupations.  When the devils fan flames, I wish for a god-light to sweat right through the heart of it. Blue carriage & a brave-neon horse that takes that bloody bit whole in its mouth—all the way to where we waltz—                      the good-light & I. Indulge in the body’s clean break—till curfew when I must alight the good-light, a tall tale grown thin. You see, I leave, & something else is left —but whose glass belonging?  Tomorrow, they’ll come searching for the one —watch this world try it on for size.                                                         Vikki C.
January 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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icefloepress.bsky.social
Today:

"In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social
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“Is This The Final”/ Wastelines: A Spoken Word Performance & Text – Susie Campbell
“Is This The Final?” – A Spoken Word Performance by Susie Campbell WASTELINES                 &nbsp…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM