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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 6h

Ty Lynne Lampe for her pre-writing on IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS, collaborative-hybrid work by myself (art) & Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social (poetry).
"an intricate piece of lace tatted from a single thread" - LJLampe.
Available @icefloepress.bsky.social
#books #collaboration #vispo @poetry

Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 11h

"From start to finish, In the Blueprint of Her Iris thrilled me with the mystery and electricity of its text-image pairings.."

Grateful to @ljensenlampe.bsky.social for her praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris.

Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social. Link below🔥

@rfredekenter.bsky.social

“From start to finish, In the Blueprint of Her Iris thrilled me with the mystery and electricity of its text-image pairings. This collaboration by Vikki C. (words) and Robert Frede Kenter (images) reminds me of an intricate piece of lace tatted from a single thread—necessarily connected, the collection loops and swirls. Individually and as a whole, the pairings captivate with repeating words, colors, textures, and themes. Each time I reached the end, I started over, looking for more connections and sonic play. I read Vikki’s words first silently then aloud, I basked in Robert’s vivid visuals. I felt upended in the best way, a “galaxy mouthing a name / it has not learnt to pronounce.” In the Blueprint of Her Iris won’t let me go.”

—Lynne Jensen Lampe, author of Talk Smack to a Hurricane

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The Winged Moon Literary Magazine SUBS OPEN @thewingedmoon.bsky.social · 6d

Today we're sharing an excerpt from @rfredekenter.bsky.social, one of two of his poems ruffling their prescient feathers in our new edition, Biophilia.

To read the whole piece, follow our links or find us on wingedmoon.com/biophilia

We'd love to know what you think...

#poetrycommunity #poetry

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 5d

L.A (2023) (c) Robert Frede Kenter #photo #photoart #image #LosAngeles #photographsofbluesky #street #queer #lgbtqia
@icefloepress.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social

Photo by Robert Frede Kenter (2023) Los Angeles. A white low rise industrial-loft building/ storefront/ mural of red leaves, a fish, flowers. Caption red ink, "When you're queer, you're family"

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 7d

Ty so much Jenny. 🔥

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 7d

Ty so much Vikki. "white static". So lovely you are also nominated for your work.

To #silverbranches! 💐🎸🎤

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 7d

Link Wray for start of October. #music #bskytunes #playlist #nowplaying #jukebox @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @jacobwren.bsky.social @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social

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Fallin' Rain

YouTube video by Link Wray - Topic

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 8d

So thankful to have spent time with this collection from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social, and to see it out in the world now!

Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 9d

"In the Blueprint of Her Iris evokes an expressionist tapestry that echoes the complexities of land, language, and loss."

Grateful to prescient poet @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social for beautiful praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

Out now from @icefloepress.bsky.social🔥

Praise for In the Blueprint of Her Iris by Stefanie Kirby, author of Fruitful.

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 7d

Honored for a BOTN nomination (& for a poem dear to me).Ty @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for opportunity to be Silver Branches feature (poems & images) lovingly curated @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & now this Unexpected & delighted. 💐 To other nominees, all formidable incl. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Our #SilverBranch project 'Best of the Net' nom's this year. Special mention for our posthumous award for Ivor Daniel.🕊️

Julian Cason @hool415.bsky.social
Vikki C @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@ivordaniel.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 8d

'D Train (Midnight) Conduction' by Canadian creative @rfredekenter.bsky.social has been nominated from the #SilverBranch project for 'The Best of the Net'. Congratulations Robert!

www.blackboughpoetry.com/robert-frede...

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 9d

"In the Blueprint of Her Iris evokes an expressionist tapestry that echoes the complexities of land, language, and loss."

Grateful to prescient poet @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social for beautiful praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

Out now from @icefloepress.bsky.social🔥

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 15d

@amantineb.bsky.social

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Ice Floe Press (Closed No Subs for a Bit) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 15d

It's available! A new brilliant collaborative work. It combines #writings of @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and #art/vispo of @rfredekenter.bsky.social. A back & forth fine-tuned visionary process of not-programmatic but parallel, converging, image-text pieces making a third. For sale at our website now!

Cover image IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS, poems: Vikki C. Art: Robert Frede Kenter. Book placed in vines. Cover & photo: Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025.

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 15d

Final week to send your experimental / outside #collections of poetic short prose/ #shortstories to Kari Flickinger Memorial Prize. I'm final reader/ judge this year. Looking for amazing, gentle, revolutionary, visceral, non-traditional #prose work! Details here!

kariflickingermemorialprize.com

KARI ANN FLICKINGER MEMORIAL PRIZE

An alternative prize for poetry and fiction

kariflickingermemorialprize.com

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 19d

Coltrane for Friday #tunes #bskymusic #playlist #jukebox #JohnColtrane @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social @thewingedmoon.bsky.social @ballastjournal.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social
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JOHN COLTRANE WISE ONE

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 20d

Now available! IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS. An expansive collab on heritage, ecologies & love amid world crises.

My poems & stunning visuals by talented artist @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Order yours today from @icefloepress.bsky.social

icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

#hybrid #poetrycommunity

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 20d

NOW AVAILABLE. Honored to bring this work to fruition & now offer it for sale at @icefloepress.bsky.social. A year long collaboration w/remarkable widely published #poet Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, this work expands on a mandate of collaborative convergence.
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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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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 23d

Honoured to have 2 poems in this beautiful issue of Winged Moon -- when the reader enters the page they can listen to the artists / writers doing a spoken word version while reading the texts. Sensitive brilliant production. #spokenword #poetry #prose #hybrid #ecologies #interspecies

The Winged Moon Literary Magazine SUBS OPEN @thewingedmoon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Biophilia out now!
wingedmoon.com/biophilia

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Ice Floe Press (Closed No Subs for a Bit) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 27d

Now available : A new hybrid work combines #vispo & #poetry. 2 expansive collaborators bringing their own practices to bear on worlds:
"we grasp with... our senses the amber, bone and dandelions of our brief terrestrial walk...exploring...a world that needs our loving gaze"@danadelibovi.bsky.social

Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 27d

Honoured & grateful for @danadelibovi.bsky.social's beautiful words on In the Blueprint of Her Iris. A visionary hybrid collaboration on eco-crisis, love & heritage — poems by Vikki C. & visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social

Link below 💙

Praise for In the Blueprint of Her Iris

In the Blueprint of Her Iris restores the organic in a technologic age. This vibrant collection, crafted of poems by Vikki C. and images by Robert Frede Kenter, revives the physical life we suffocate with our devices. Poet and painter guide us back to the ecstasies of the body and to the body’s equally sublime limits of sickness and death. In the book’s pages, we grasp with all our senses the amber, bone, and dandelions of our brief terrestrial walk. We feel the Spirit that rises from what we touch. We remember the ancestral symbiosis—human, plant, animal, and earth—that seeds our joy and asks our protection. In the Blueprint of Her Iris invites us to lift our eyes away from the screen and outward, to a world that needs our loving gaze. It is more than a book; it is a balm for souls torn by the machines of our own making.
—Dana Delibovi, poet, essayist and translator; consulting editor, Cable Street literary e-zine

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 27d

Honoured & grateful for @danadelibovi.bsky.social's beautiful words on In the Blueprint of Her Iris. A visionary hybrid collaboration on eco-crisis, love & heritage — poems by Vikki C. & visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social

Link below 💙

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 27d

Support a brilliant visionary press that embraces work of immediacy in this volatile and complex climate. Thank you 🙏

icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

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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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 29d

HappyBirthday SonnyRollins #bskytunes #birthday #magic #playlist #jukebox #jazz
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @jpiudik.bsky.social @roughghosts.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk @roseknapp.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @jacobwren.bsky.social
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The Bridge (Remastered)

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

a complete honor and joy to work with you on this truly collaborative book project #books #hybrid #indiepress #visualpoetry #poetry #vispo #lyric #deconstruction #ecologies
#histories #diaspora

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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.

icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

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. …

icefloepress.net

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk @the-ethelzine.bsky.social @ballastjournal.bsky.social

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

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"

Cover of In the Blueprint of Her Iris. A cosmic galaxy of shards of glass and ephemeral outerspace clouds with a floating flower petal. Designed by Robert Frede Kenter. Available from Ice Floe Press now.

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