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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New at Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle series a new prose work: unique, precise, magical by noted American #author Greg Mulcahy #prose #GregMulcahy #Art @rfredekenter.bsky.social If I could tell the dead so the dead would listen, I would tell the dead to shut up. icefloepress.net/2026/09/28/p...

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PITY – Prose by Greg Mulcahy

PITY He was at the clinic looking to solve the moment’s limp with magic nonsurgical intervention to abate the bad knee.…

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'To the earth's edge, where difference ends' From The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave) by Jennifer Elise Foerster 🤍 #poetry #poetrycommunity

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'To the earth's edge, where difference ends' From The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave) by Jennifer Elise Foerster 🤍 #poetry #poetrycommunity

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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many achievements to celebrate from Anteroom contributors! Congratulations, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social on this nomination from The Ilanot Review @sundresspub.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honoured my poem "Survivorship" has been nominated by The Ilanot Review for the @sundresspub.bsky.social 2027 Best of the Net Anthology🔥 My thanks to Managing Editor Marcela Sulak and the team at The Ilanot Review. What a lovely gift! Congratulations and best of luck to all the nominees! #BoTN

The Ilanot Review 2027 Best of the Net Anthology nominations.

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ty V. means so much. A book still very close to me. avail at 🎸@icefloepress.bsky.social website @vikkicwrites.bsky.social #canada #reads #books #hybrid #collaboration #prosepoem #poetry #fragments #juxtaposition #longpoem #photo #art "when you care for someone you live in a very heightened way..."

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Loving this excerpt from Audacity of Form. The voice liberating, most alive in the *spaces between nature, music, art & kinship. @rfredekenter.bsky.social — another "poet among painters", if I may say so. No surprise given the lifelong circle of artists/collaborators. @icefloepress.bsky.social ✨️

'Lines I Found For You' - an excerpt from Audacity of Form by Robert Frede Kenter.

Cover of Audacity of Form by Robert Frede Kenter.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Revisiting this prose poem 'Childhood' which was published in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social last November. Thank you again @aprilmbratten.bsky.social and all readers that bring much light to our words ✨️ #poetrycommunity #poetry

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“What wind blew me / off course, took me from heart and home?” — Donika Kelly . . . This poem appeared in Sinister Wisdom, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Self-portrait with an abyss

Reflection on still water: white and golden clouds stretching into the endless sky, a dark silhouette of a woman at the bottom holding a phone

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Grateful to have a new poem 'Childhood' included in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social alongside a wealth of talent! Huge thank you to EIC @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my work ❤️ upthestaircase.org/vikki-c.html (ALT TEXT included) Check out the full issue at the link in replies.

Vikki C. | Childhood
Mostly, I wasted it, in refuse sites bright with strangers’ belongings, throwaways and
condemned vehicles. They are planning to turn the toxic lake into a freshwater reservoir.
Permission granted the summer you left. They will name it Tranquility. Introduce lush
colonies of fish to colour in the stenciled dark. Powdered pellets of sedatives skimming the
water at dusk, to send those creatures to sleep—even as light radiation peaks. The glow must
have been my mother visiting, as promised. She, another site of special scientific interest,
treated too late. Each time those harsh rays shone through her like sabers, I innocently
sketched them around another circle—to make a new sun. Below, an emerald landscape
reaching to meet it, the sprinkler set to a gentle spray. My father walking through the
rainbowed spectrum, as if returning. I would wait—longer than I counted—for his steps to
draw near, for the key to turn in the lock, and amber to pour through the crack, illuminating
the pairs of animal figures, who waited too. The ending was less than he remembers—a
rearrangement of night and TV static, the bent August heat on oily kneecapped roads. Some
alien waterlilies, like retired ballerinas, larger than a man’s fists, overtaking the sidewalks.
Surviving, rootless. Like all other variables, the experts couldn't explain such condition.
Water versus concrete. Truth versus playground. The vapour in those polished mason jars,
never too tightly sealed.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“It’s hard to say I need you enough.” — Tara Skurtu (@taraskurtu.bsky.social)

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tiny poem from our collaborative chap, BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... Love poem-ing with Jarrett Moseley! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @darkwebtofu.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Lost Couplet

When I die, let my body be donated to silence.
The final noise: when I'm clothed in ground.

Sparrows asleep inside a glass violin.
Bells with their throats cut.

The song went: plenty, plenty. I've plenty of bones.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“how easy to forget / the feeling of wanting to be carried / into some other life.” — John Kneisley . . . This poem appeared in Ecotone, Issue 36, Spring/Summer 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weekends are always special when new books arrive. Today, it’s these three beauties from The Song Cave @thesongcave.bsky.social ❤️ 📚 • The Maybe-Bird, Jennifer Elise Foerster • Shake Until Cloudy, Amanda Nadelberg • Earthly, Jean Follain – translated by Andrew Seguin #poetrybooks

Three books from The Song Cave @thesongcave.sky.social:

• The Maybe-Bird, Jennifer Elise Foerster
• Shake Until Cloudy, Amanda Nadelberg
• Earthly, Jean Follain – translated by Andrew Seguin

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Certain events of love drew my body nearer to meaning." This beautiful poem 'The Anxiety of Meaning' by Bianca Stone in The Glacier 🤍 @42milespress.bsky.social theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/... #poetrycommunity #poetry

The Anxiety of Meaning

Bianca Stone

Certain events of love
drew my body nearer to meaning.

All poets are liars.
Wrecked against meaning. Starved
on the beach of meaning—

I want to keep your head in a black bag, I said.

Who can distinguish the remembered
from the desired? I know a little
the agony of it. I drew nearer still.

What do I know about getting?
I know my mother turned away.
That I slipped from her body again and again,
tied down in an incubator and punctured
with a life-saving light.

I know that all that time
an ancient poem
was writing itself in the
hallway, where a mask hung on the wall
looking without seeing.

I know I turned away. Can you feel it?
How the head longs to rid the face
of a certain danceless dance. That we were

condemned to dualism at birth.
Dualism is dead.
And long live dualism.

That certain events of love
drew us nearer to mean.
That the heart is chilled
by a tormented wave

that thinks it is not the sea.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the theme of coast/ longing/ contemplation here is a new poem: 'Coastal autobiography' Thank you as always @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🤍 #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity

Coastal autobiography

I rest in my receding, high-winds pulling each tide
like a hair, glossy and remembered,
feet sinking in rough constellations;
the crayfish’s broken armour
eclipsed by washed-up jellyfish
translucent, pulsing still.

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As if a knot of nerves is enough
to simplify the loss.
Again, a blue boat wrestles
our wrong weathers.
What will they throw overboard to save themselves?
The cries of birds burn red.

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Dusk deep inside each clear body,
blood believable. I must not touch.
Even in death, sting still potent,
one hallucinates a side-effect,
salty men backstroking through fog,
a pearlwashed rhythm
I enter to endure.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For this week’s #smallpoemsunday, here’s one from BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR, a collaborative chap between myself & @darkwebtofu.bsky.social! Thanks to @diodeeditions.bsky.social for believing in these poems! Read the rest here: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Soft Machinery

Drowned lilies in a basin behind chapel doors.
The feeling of a snail crawling down the throat.

Of history, is it the metaphor or the body that dies?
The float of seasons, a widening orbit, the book older and stranger.

Standard are the ways we hurt each other, however slowly it may make us.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In her world, handwritten draft essays are a thing.... Prepping for an upcoming feature 🤍 #writingcommunity #writerslife #oldschool

Excerpt of a handwritten draft essay in a notebook. A ballpoint pen rests in the central fold of the notebook.

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In her world, handwritten draft essays are a thing.... Prepping for an upcoming feature 🤍 #writingcommunity #writerslife #oldschool

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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle project welcomes: non-binary queer poet Joshua Zeitler, author of chapbook Bliss Road (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025) & in Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, The Shore, elsewhere. thejayestofzees.bsky.social art: @rfredekenter.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2026/09/09/t...

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Two Prose Poems – Joshua Zeitler

Joshua Zeitler is a queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. They are the author of the chapbook Bliss Road (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025), and their work has appeared or is forthco…

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some new work up at @icefloepress.bsky.social for our Dis/enchantment...series Welcome queer non-binary poet Joshua Zeitler to the mix! thejayestofzees.bsky.social 2 #prosepoems I created #vispo to accompany. Enjoy. "I claim the movement of my shadow as deduction" icefloepress.net/2026/09/09/t...

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“A thought skips ahead, plays out, pauses, starts again.” A poem by Adam Clay.

MIXTAPE ARCHIVE CIRCA 1997

The sun like a hubcap through the clouds
because coarse light can come from
many places. Some scratchy guitar solo
disappears into a wrecked piano, later
tossed to sea. A thought skips ahead, plays
out, pauses, starts again: searching
the cassette for some familiar strain.
I dreamt the middle of the boulevard
was fragmented into gravel and dust,
and sure enough it happened the next day.
The silence between the songs,
it turns out, was all I needed to hear.

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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New features at Ice Floe Press Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle autumn series. Welcome Paul Woodford's @visbardd.bsky.social Dept. of Visual Paradox... an incisive theoretical hybrid: essay/vision/image structures. Powerful work of this moment #hybrid #essay #visual icefloepress.net/2026/09/07/d...

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Department of Visual Paradox and Pataphysical Research: Circular No. 73Γ

Weather #1 & Weather #2 Note: The Department refuses to determine which of these images is the original and which is its weathered history. Current evidence suggests that each is produced by p…

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Colorado Review @coloradoreview.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A poem from our Summer 2026 issue. Check out featured pieces, including another Ketner poem “a hubcap (gold),” on our website: coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-rev....

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“I’m beginning to think I may never / not be undecided, about all sorts of things” — Carl Phillips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2016. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have a translation in the premier issue of Light Study journal—“The Breath” by Alaíde Foppa (1914-1980). Foppa is a Guatemalan/Mexican poet of great elegance, who among other works wrote a great series of poems, Elogio de mi cuerpo, from which the translated poem is taken.

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Alaíde Foppa

Translated by Dana Delibovi The Breath I don’t know wherethe wind that carries mearises. Or thethe sigh that consoles me,or the airthat steadily lifts my breastand holds aloftmy invisible flight.I …

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

C.D. Wright, “Tours”

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#CW- Grateful to have a hybrid obituary piece and asemic art in the latest issue of San Pedro River Review... Grateful for the pub. The image came out dark, so I'm posting the original... You can buy the issue on Amazon....

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honoured to lead off @icefloepress.bsky.social's ‘Dis/enchantment/ Anomie /Spectacle’ series with a collaboration FROST Poem & art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social Spoken word, music & production by Vikki C. A joy to create a soundscape for this startling piece 🔥 icefloepress.net/2026/09/03/f...

Collage of new Ice Floe collaboration FROST by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter. The collage shows the webpage of the published work alongside photos of both creators.

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The new @icefloepress.bsky.social web series Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle begins today w/ a potent #collaboration #hybrid piece by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & myself. Vikki performs my prose poem "Frost" on #keyboards, #voice, #sound & production; I created a new #visualpoem. A feast of senses.

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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our new web series begins to day & will run through autumn. Check back regularly & check out our website for updates, new books, & a brilliant living archive of 7 years of global contributors from Canada, U.S. UK, Ireland, Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, NZ. Artists on fire. icefloepress.net/2026/09/02/d...

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Dis/enchantments / Anomie /Spectacle

Our new series Dis/enchantments/ Anomie / Spectacle begins Sept. 3rd 2026 and will feature a gathering of international writers, artists and hybrid creators including: Vikki C., Laura Kerr, Stephen…

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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

2nd 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. 🔥

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Day 30 of #thesealeychallenge • Our featured poet is Diana Cao (@dianacao.bsky.social), whose work appeared in Equatorial Literary Magazine. For the whole month of August, we'd like to put a spotlight on individual poets as well as some of our favourite lit mags.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker”

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