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
from the Archives: A prose poem by Frances Klein with a painting by the late Canadian artist Cathy Daley' "Rain gods are not waterproof; a good day is merely damp." icefloepress.net/rain-god-a-p...
Rain God – A Prose Poem by Frances Klein w/a Painting by Cathy DaleyRain God I She did not want to be a rain god, had never wanted it. She did not want to stand on rocky shores gazing out at churning waves while spray spritzed around her. She did not want to hike t…icefloepress.netmore than 100 Next250 events will take place across the country...In Los Angeles, an event titled Learn the History They Want You to Forget will include a walking tour recognizing sites significant to Black, Latino, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘This isn’t about any one administration’: protests kick off in DC to reimagine the next 250 years in the USNext250’s Declaration of Interdependence, a new art gallery that features Americans’ collective values and hopes for the future, will open in McPherson Squarewww.theguardian.com2nd edition of "In the Blueprint of Her Iris" #poems by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social / #vispo by @rfredekenter.bsky.social New edition contains a new poem and 2 new image-works. Now available from our online bookshop; we ship internationally. 🔥
Vikki C.Summer days with In the Blueprint of Her Iris - 2nd edition ✨️ A hybrid collaboration of poems by Vikki C. and striking artwork by @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥 Read about our process and the inspiration behind the book & order your copy! @icefloepress.bsky.social icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...
Our complete recent project 1st for 2026 curated by @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social can be view with individual links attached at our website TOC: & We are open again for new work for our upcoming Dis/Enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle project! icefloepress.net/process-marg...
PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) – AN ICE FLOE PROJECTWelcome to our new series. Throughout the months of January, February & into March 2026, subscribers & online social media readers had the opportunity to explore and experience a variety of…icefloepress.netWe are open for submissions for a new project exploring themes of: Dis/Enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle Click the link to view prompt in full. Send work to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com #poems #prose #visualart #vispo #experimental #hybrid #sound #video icefloepress.net/dis-enchantm...
Dis/enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle – An Ice Floe Project“a hypermarket can provide just as much meaning and human truth as a concert hall” – Annie Ernaux Crash (2026) (c) Robert Frede Kenter Ice Floe Press is now open for submissions o…icefloepress.netMoon Writing is available from Ice Floe Press, a 'mail-order' micro-press of quality books. Now available! #poetry #hybrid #books #collaboration #vispo #suite #fulllength #booksonbluesky #blueskywriters #blueskyartists icefloepress.net/moon-writing...
MOON WRITING (A COLLABORATION)-CATHERINE GRAHAM (POEMS)/ ROBERT FREDE KENTER (VISUAL ART)NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE ! From the Intro: Moon Writing is “an intersection and convergence of poems and visual works, exploring nature and culture, dream ecologies, secrets, the knife-edge of …icefloepress.netRobertFredeKenterWe're ghosts on our way out of this world, an extended time for light (Text Catherine Graham) (Visual poem) Robert Frede Kenter From Moon Writing (2026) a collaboration CBC names Moon Writing one of 29 new poetry books for Spring 2026 (to watch). You can get yours at @icefloepress.bsky.social
Announcement!🔥🎸 The 1st printing of In the Blueprint of Her Iris sold out. Ty to all our readers for making that possible. After thought & our ongoing collaborative process we decided to release a 2nd edition. It's now in pre-order & has 3 additional new pieces! icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...
In The Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) Robert Frede Kenter (Images)Now Available In a new edition with two new visual poems by Robert Frede Kenter and a new text work by Vikki C. IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (2026) 2nd Edition In The Blueprint of Her Iris is a col…icefloepress.netCheck out the new issue of The Prose Poem "Bloom" with work by our publisher Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social and others! #exphrastic #prosepoems 🔥🎸 theprosepoem.com
The Prose Poem – theprosepoem.comtheprosepoem.comA remarkable piece we published by artist/poet activist Maggs Vibo @ashpoet.bsky.social for #veterans The 'after' and the years of service and "the after". #political #art #visualpoetry #vispo #artistsofinstagram. Pertinent always and now even more so. Ty. icefloepress.net/a-love-lette...
A Love Letter to Me – A VISPO by Maggs ViboMaggs Vibo (she/her) is a war veteran, scholar, and artist from Richmond, VA. She experiments with glitch films and folklore imagery in the fringes of the art world. In 2020, her cinepoems debuted …icefloepress.netmouth as your hand - a collaboration between @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social from PROCESS project (an epistolary novella in process). #spokenword #image #music #text #vispo #dystopia icefloepress.net/2026/03/13/f...
from an epistolary novella – A Collaboration: Vikki C. (texts and sound) & Robert Frede Kenter (images)Vikki C. author statement on process These three poetic prose pieces form part of a forthcoming speculative fiction epistolary novella collaboration by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter. Essentially…icefloepress.netToday on PROCESS series an image/text work by @rfredekenter.bsky.social series co-curator & EIC of Ice Floe. Vacuum-sealed, shed skin on rockface, you bring a gift of feral bounty from inside wailing boundaries, an armature through the air of burning trees. icefloepress.net/2026/03/11/m...
Madrigal: A Hybrid – Robert Frede KenterMADRIGAL Think thoughts of language as healing. Magical deer (madrigal) rooted in presence. &nb…icefloepress.netKarl Tierney was remarkable poet & friend of our managing editor @mjseyesopened.bsky.social. We've been planning this feature for years: an interview w/the late Jim Cory, editor of Karl's (2019) Selected Poems, + 8 unpublished poems, memorials, art & photos. #LGBTQIA icefloepress.net/2026/03/09/c...
Conclave. Karl Tierney: 8 Unpublished Poems/ An Interview by Moira J. Saucer with Jim Cory / A Visual Poem by Robert Frede Kenter & Photos of Karl TierneyEditor’s Note: I met Karl Tierney (1956-1995) in the autumn of 1980 during my first semester at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. We were both MFA candidates in the Arkansas Writers W…icefloepress.netNew at Ice Floe Press Process series: honored to present a new poetryfilm by Amantine Brodeur @amantineb.bsky.social exploring image/text voiceover and themes veering between nature/culture, temporality and eternal rhythms. icefloepress.net/2026/03/06/t...
The Cartography of Melancholia: a poetryfilm – Amantine BrodeurThe Cartography of Melancholia – Process Statement The video aims to capture elements of nature and artifice by blending a mix of still images with panning and wide lens effects providing a …icefloepress.netToday at PROCESS series welcome bigjosh84.bsky.social Joshua Walker with a complex hybrid work involving text, sound and image. Speak, reader, and the lines will answer. The air between letters is older than the world. Step lightly, for the ink remembers. icefloepress.net/2026/03/04/f...
File #447-B: Investigation into Artifact “The Poem” – Joshua WalkerTHE ARTIFACT — JOSHUA WALKER The ArtifactDownload My Dearest … An Audio Letter Author Statement This piece began as an essay, transitions into a prose narrative of found notes, culminat…icefloepress.netOn our Process series 6 new poems by Canadian poet/novelist Catherine Graham after paintings by surrealist Remedios Varo w/ a visual poem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social o be unlike other birds. icefloepress.net/2026/02/25/s...
Six Poems after Remedios Varo – Catherine GrahamSeers as Birds or the Quest for Essential Materials after Remedios Varo To be a bird from a Varo painting is to be unlike other birds. Our vivid assembly of fine feathers operates outside laws you …icefloepress.netThis week Ice Floe Process series begins w/ extraordinary feature from 2 leading contemporary surrealists in collaboration: Chilean/Canadian #poet Beatriz Hausner & influential Dutch surrealist #painter Rik Lina. Enjoy these evocations of interior alternative worlds icefloepress.net/2026/02/23/f...
from THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS – Beatriz Hausner & Rik LinaTHE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS MOVING IN The house had remained empty for what seemed like several eternities, despite its prominent location in the centre of Paris. It was as if the walls had signed a …icefloepress.netThe 2nd piece this week was remarkable deconstruction of modernist/art viewing while partaking of modernist tropes & ruminative inquiry from experimental #Scottish poet & artist @mdbolsover.bsky.social curated @rfredekenter.bsky.social & @vikkicwrites.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2026/02/20/s...
‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark BOLSOVER‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ – Mark Bolsover Blue BalloonDownload AUTHOR STATEMENT: My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological …icefloepress.netThis week on PROCESS /MARGINALIA /OTHERWOR(L)(D)S we featured a #hybrid #longpoem #elegy by writer/publisher Su Zi @suzi00.bsky.social w/a #visualpoem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social your kitchen your table, your cupboard of waiting China icefloepress.net/2026/02/18/n...
Neighbors: Ray n Kay, A Poem – Su Zi /Memory Window, A Visual Poem – Robert Frede KenterMy process is live it and try to live to tell – Su Zi MEMORY WINDOW Neighbors: Ray n Kay (with thanks to Laura Baker) It is in the evening when empty houses are most lonely. There is no one t…icefloepress.net