A poem born of care, loss, anguish, love & meditation. Ty
@deuxiemepeau
at
@StormsJournal
for publishing my memorial poem. I sent this work, was read blind. If I wished a home for it, it was to be published in Storms. Elegant, beautiful designproject of love. Also podcast version
Happy
#HappyWorldPoetryDay
from the road! Hope everyone is having fun and reading lots of poetry ❤️🔥💞
@icefloeP
EIC poet and visual artist in Los Angeles -- working on some new lines -- taking in the mountains, the canyons, the Pacific Ocean, art & coastal light. x
It's really happening: Pandemic Love Anthology
@IcefloeP
on its way to printers!🏭Proud to be part of this from the prompt to work w/other editors, contributors & cover design incl gorgeous front art
@MJSEyesOpened
@Anu_Sengupta
@jakkybeefive
. Avail Sept!
An Ice Floe Press Announcement!
We are honored to announce Toronto poet, visual artist & publ. Samuel Strathman's first full-length book of poems & art, OMNISHAMBLES, is forthcoming from
@IcefloeP
@_strathman_
Further announcements for 2021-2022 will roll-out soon! TY poetry fam.
@Joseph_Fasano_
This speaks to me, a very short poem by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, trans. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Ty again Joseph for a wonderful and elemental theme/thread.
I make visual poetry images every day but do not often share them. felt in the frame to share. As yet 'untitled' (c) robert frede kenter (2024).
#vispo
#collage
#Glitch
To
@TopTweetTuesday
end of Sept 2023 autumn theme- Here is "October Ghost" - a new poem I wrote for this day's series. Hi Lou & ty
@LouLouMach
for hosting &
@blackboughpoems
for their ever-generous focus on art, poetry, community, a platform page of convergence 💞💐🙌🎁
A lot of beautiful, powerful sad poems on
@TopTweetTuesday
today. Here is a short new poem I've been working on to add to the mix. Ty to host
@C_Redford_
&
@blackboughpoems
& of course
@MatthewMCSmith
& always incredible contributors & readers of this magical weekly gathering.
Its so difficult, impossible. Some have known, others I told today. My friend, fam., a touchstone of light, Cathy Daley, has left us. Her spirit of creative magic looms large. We cared deeply, had each other back, always. I honor her life, brilliance, courageous presence. R.I.P.
Was away for a bit -- necessary -- got some writing done, started some new strands - filled up with music, skies and trees. Regenerating. Lots more to come, process, explore. Here, there, everywhere. Blessings for the 1st of June.
So honored to announce I have a couple of poems in this truly magical project from Sidhe Press! Ty to the editors for choosing my work. To The Light! Will be available tomorrow world wide! Exciting news. Gorgeous cover.
@SidhePress
#smallpress
#books
#Sept
& lovely
@ri_collins
To
@TopTweetTuesday
& today's magical host
@SaraswatiNagpal
a very brief imagist micro-poem that first appeared in a Canadian journal, long discontinued, called Writ. Its a wintry sci-fi psychotropic sort of number. Ty. Have a fantastic day. Also a shoutout to
@MatthewMCSmith
To
@TopTweetTuesday
& today's host Mr. Hyde
@gphydeauthor
, an autumn
#micropoem
5 lines, 40 words max challenge.
#poetry
Storm
To hone harvest,
The wheel is a lightning rod,
Arriving in igneous gratitude.
Gasping sky, cold speech, cafe mouth,
Old city, preserve your words.
Hi to formidable host and maestro
@MatthewMCSmith
. Here is a 14 word poem for
@TopTweetTuesday
about the industrial town where I grew up & is a layer that shapes a quadrant of my work. A Salmon-coloured-hue for the sky as seen from the windows.
#TopTweetTuesday
Back w/my 2nd poem for today. This one, a poem of mine published in the journal, WRIT, is a short poem about childhood titled - 'Men Out of Snow'. Ty Jen
@jenlareine
for hosting the gig & Matt
@MatthewMCSmith
&
@blackboughpoems
for this every-Tues. dream fest.💞
Panemic Love Anthology: Full List of Contributors! Ice Floe Press! 72 amazing contributors 🥁🎸💐💐💐❤️🔥❤️🔥!
@IcefloeP
Now available for pre-order here:
soft cover and limited special hard cover ed. available
Combing thru my archives came upon this little image-based poem, delighted to share it. Orig. published in a prairie-based Canadian journal
@TopTweetTuesday
host Ryan K
@Keatingr
- Hope you having a fantastic day
@blackboughpoems
Happy New Year everyone & Maestro
@MatthewMCSmith
Hi everyone just a quick hi. I'm so overwhelmingly appreciative of all the love that's been showering my way convergence of rainbow arcs shimmering ladders of light, hope, tenderness💞care. deeply felt sorry if i am not responding to everyone individually. I'll be back soon!🎸💐
Let go, 2022! Lost my best friend, got COVID & Pneumonia, 'still hard to talk'. On other hand many print & online publications & saw so many pals w/ books out & web projects. Expansive interior magical & heartbreaking. Plus all
@IcefloeP
accomplishments. To 2023 - free-flowing🙌
Kind of overwhelmed, part of me still turning shadows on the floor emerging from a week of fevers - Today inspired, uplifted - I shall keep it no secret. Honored to find out a poem of mine shortlisted in 2nd Anniversary contest
@darkwinterlit
Blessings. Huge congrats everyone💓
Happy Easter everyone! A new(ish) drawing/painting, The White Rabbit. The music hour for Easter Sunday will be along shortly.... um -- a bit after 10am today. Blessings everyone. To a better Spring; light changing places with the pistons of war, oppression, and callous hearts.
So honored have a new
#poem
up at the glorious
@olney
#xcerpt
Its cold here today,
But there is always music.
Music of cranes in migration.
Music of wandering drifters with beat up fire charred six strings,
Drifting angels with songs that know no limits.
It's a WRAP!
@icefloep
Work & Anthropocene Project.
Enjoy the whole series at the website! This was the prompt -- you can view the entire series from drop down menu at our home page! Onwards to more Geographies 2022, Dispatches & Cassandra/Chorale🎻🎸🎙️
Copies of
@painscaleantho
have arrived!! Pre-orders will begin shipping tomorrow!
There will be a digital version made available AT NO COST next week, but these books, which were edited and designed by
@alyssaegoldberg
are so awesome!
#TopTweetTuesday
@EvilStevieB
@blackboughpoems
Given the situation in Nigeria want to boost a brilliant Nigerian poet, Taiwo Hassan, we published at Ice Floe Press in 2021. Ty in advance for reading. & for this weekly series. Blessings and community.
25th Dec. my grandmother's birthday (so she sd). A ferocious matriarch w/flair for drama, Bessie, born in San Antonio Texas, birth records went up in flames in 'great' 1905 fire. TY
@BolaOpaleke
for curating
Grandmother – Listen. This is about hybridity.
24 word
#poem
@TopTweetTuesday
w/beat-bop poet
@folkheartpress
host. Here, my little offering
@blackboughpoems
Fungi
Said wait
Float – towards
Old light. A dream’s notion
A nodule – the
Necessary knot in
Wood – spinning ochre-
Orchestral – spinning
Darkly – serrated into
World.
This miracle of an Anthology, SEEING IN TONGUES, just arrived. Honored to be in the dazzling mix. Just opened it to Madelaine Culver
@fromxthextower
worth the price of admission alone. Ty
@steelincisors
for creating a magic book to sit next to Riverside Shakespeare on bookshelf.
Heartbreaking news. Going to take a break and also over at Ice Floe in honor and respect of fam, friends &
communities. We will be back soon, beginning next week. R.I.P. to lovely gentleman and brilliant poet, Gboyega Odubanjo. 💔🕯️
@icefloeP
Phenomenal announcement! Welcome V.C. McCabe fierce poet, editor & music expert to Ice Floe Press
@icefloeP
She is hand-chosen by formidable now-USA-based Adedayo Agarau, our Series Director for International Voices Series. Watch for amazing new things from this kick-ass team!🔥
Magic Oak (2022)
going to the forest soon for a few days -- needed -- can't wait to reconnect with all my tree friends. This, one of my favs. Took this last year - a visual tribute.
Honored my short-listed poem for Dark Winter 2nd contest published today. An
#eco
#poem
of emotion and many convergences Ty for perfect image accompanying
@darkwinterlit
As if we could catalogue
the energy of our earth
We borrow but never return
the other night /where i was /was this glorious moon
unearthly tide / shadows on water/all energy of lost and found / something else/ i wanted to tell you/ about /& so I whispered / gossamer unravels / the way we always wanted /the way we always wished it would
#TopTweetTuesday
My first published poem -- before the oats got sewed. From a
#Canadian
#art
magazine called "Last Issue" (1987) (in those days i had a truncated nom de' plume) 🧐☎️📞🎼👠🕵️🎸🎻 written in NYC on the lower east side.
Thrilled to share my poem "Little Feral Dew Drop"
#ekphrasic
work spun from gorgeous evocative collage by Sarah-Jane Crowson
@sarahjfc
in
#nationalpoetrymonth
ed. Visual Verse
@visual_verse
Read the entire issue, enjoy many potent responses to Sarah's art
For the inimitable
@TopTweetTuesday
& its 16 word micro-challenge, hopefully i'm not breaking any rules here -- but the poem itself IS 16 words, promise. Ty To lovely eco-poet
@folkheartpress
for hosting &
@blackboughpoems
&
@MatthewMCSmith
for always being gracious and inviting.
Coming 2025: A collaborative, speculative fiction, epistolary novella by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter.
A visionary apocalyptic love story traversing time & space —
where otherworldly realism converges with metaphysical embodiment 🖤
#specfic
#WritingCommunity
Today is the anniversary of my mother - Helen's - death. Most of my family/ancestors are Ukrainian Jews from Odessa & what are now parts of Poland. Refugees to America in late 19th cent. on until 'stopped'. I know my families worked hard also to help Jews flee Nazi Germany💔🕯️💗
from my poem series up this week at
@FeversOf
ty to David L. O'Nan for publishing these.
Title: Dr. Mudd is a song by John Cale & This is a poem to a Friend and the Lower East Side
Today at Ice Floe my new series of 10 visual poems incl.
#erasures
#imagetext
#vispo
#collage
#glitch
#geometric
etc. Been working on these since developing the prompt. It's been a great series - 1 last piece will be up tomorrow - drop by, visit, work! Ty.
At
@icefloeP
Dispatches series,
@BolaOpaleke
& A new chapbook from Bola coming soon.
She said, “smile for me”. & I did. But
all a smile knew to do was to wield a sharp knife—
the guerdon for the happenstance
of the sword the body becomes once entered.
So a couple things 1) I tested positive for
#COVID19
this morning. Been feeling weird for days, feverish & dizzy increasingly so & achy etc. Thought it was 1) a cold 2) flu? Been testing for a week - and till this am came up negative. Been so diligent thru 2 1/2 years,vacc, masks
Honoring Kari Flickinger, today, from "Dispatches" Her work will appear in our forthcoming anthology Pandemic Love coming soon
@icefloeP
I dream that I am wonderful to you. That
we are not some parallel of too fast too
hard aligning too slow
too soft.
Heading off to a retreat/ this will likely be the last DJ hour for a week or so/ will try to slip a tune or 2 into the big feed that is X along the way, right place right time. In the meantime, enjoy a final offering before I check out with the luggage. Mohave Desert here I come.
#TopTweetTuesday
I first became very ill & the early 1990s everyone I came to care about was equally struggling, I wrote this poem & was moved it was published in "Tight" a lovely Zine published by Ann Erickson in California.
@blackboughpoems
@dizzylynn
TY 💞Sharing it today.
Today at Ice Floe Press 2 eco-poems by formidable Edinburgh poet Imogen Forster
@ImogenForster2
@icefloeP
with art by myself
Snow was an innocent trick played
on us as we slept, a fresh page.
In the orchards ghost apples hung,
hollow, ringing like glass.
#Hanukkah2022
Night 1. Candles, blessings, light always thru the dark. Recovering from pneumonia so extra gratitude -- to everyone -- to my friends, family, ancestors & colleagues, Chag sameach -- to generative light, regeneration, creative imaginings, sacred inspired & mystical.
Honored to publish phenomenal visual artist/
#vispo
#poet
endlessly creative expansive worker in art based in Canada the one-only
@LauraKerrArt
at Cassandra series
@IcefloeP
w/a beautiful retelling of fairytale/ Do check Laura's new
#InterPoem
project too!
Honored to announce I have work in this amazing new anthology from Black Bough, In flight, a long time in the making. Ty to ed.
@marcellenewbold
&
@MatthewMCSmith
for the endless fount of creativity & tenacious stewardship
@blackboughpoems
. Gorgeous cover art and magic for spring
Really excited to announce I've 2 tactile poems forthcoming in Sidhe Press 'Glisk And Glimmer Anthology'. To reading it cover to cover -- & -- well I sense -- the physical book shall create sparks in the hands of readers, vibrantly wondrous. To the editors & all their work!❤️🔥
Thrilled to announce that Ice Floe Press
@icefloeP
new Anthology Pandemic Love & Other Affinities is now available for purchase at the website! So many phenomenal authors/ artists incl. from Canada, Nigeria, India, UK, Ireland, USA, Ghana, N.Z.🎸🌟❤️🔥
I invited Canadian-based educator, visual artist, visual poet to make a piece for Cassandra/CHORALE. Circling around experimental 'takes' myths, canon stories, hybrids, this is truly beautiful groundbreaking piece
@LauraKerrArt
explores a Grimm Bros tale.
#TopTweetTuesday
@blackboughpoems
@zr_ghani
Sharing a micro poem published a while back. Working on a book of poems about my father. I think this will be part of it. (including an art/ photo "for Paul" ). Ty everyone on this cold winter day.
Publisher, editor, contributor and book model
@frede_kenter
at your service.
The great Love & Other Affinities project -- an Anthology from
@icefloeP
is now on sale at the website. Also think of subscribing to receive ongoing features by writers and artists from around the world!
It's true. Ice Floe is going to re-publish Marian Christie's phenomenal book of essays on the kinetics between poetry forms/& mathematics. We are committed to keeping a book every poet should have in their collection In-Print. More on this in the coming months. Autumn release🎸💐
LOTSA NEWS at ICE FLOE PRESS. 1st UP! We are so stoked to announce we have acquired Marian Christie's fantastic book of essays "From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry". Brilliant, creative, inspiring. Coming this Autumn from Ice Floe! Honored!
@marian_v_o
Honored to announce 8 works
#hybrid
in final (sadly) issue of
#Otoliths
, well-known intl.
#experimental
#poetry
journal from Australia. Here are 2 excerpts & a link to my whole suite - also - do check full issue & archives! Cornucopia of expansive riches.
Sharing my image for Day3 of
#NationalPoetryMonth
Wombwell Rainbow
#Ekphrasis
project & a short
#micropoem
to accompany. Please feel free - Gauntlet thrown - to write to it & post as a quote tweet.
autumn leaf/ snow covered / footprints /approaching spring/ a tiny twisted dance.
My dearest pal & co-editor
@icefloeP
Moira J. Saucer
@MJSEyesOpened
is having a major surgery this am. I'm sending out hugs & post-op blessings healing for this day & all that comes after: recovery. I'm sure she would love all our blessings light shimmering down into Birmingham❤️🔥