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In the spirit of the awful year that’s just about to end, let me ask this question: What’s the sh*ttiest year you’ve lived through so far? Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year

GoFundMe Update: Thank you to everyone who has been so kind and supportive. In December, my dentist developed a treatment plan that will take about six months; because of bone loss, additional procedures may be needed. See the full update below. gofund.me/a4473b96d

New today DEC WORKS: 2 visual poems & 2 sound works by Annick Yerem. Beautiful evocations of pain, the medical system, #disability, #chronicillness -- what many of us endure, quietly or in complex fashion, at the margins & outside abelism. @missyerem.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2025/12/17/v...

I have a feeling someone who follows me knows someone who fits this bill.

Christmas just came early for a lot of Trump’s enemies and their lawyers.

Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀 Start the clock! ⏰ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Many thanks to @icefloepress.bsky.social for sharing my work Lux. It means a lot 🙏

Ryan Hooper is a Cornwall-based writer, artist and sound maker. Working across mixed media, his practice explores the intersections of personal experience, memory and the natural world, reflecting on themes of identity, loss, healing and resilience. @rfredekenter.bsky.social

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

TODAY! 5PM EASTERN... jared, barlow, dan, gregory, j-t, and myself ̶F̶A̶C̶I̶A̶L̶L̶Y̶ ̶F̶O̶L̶L̶I̶C̶L̶E̶D̶ ̶F̶A̶B̶U̶L̶I̶S̶T̶S̶ BEARDED BARDS OF BLUESKY!

Today at Ice Floe New Works: Texas-based poet Alexander Etheridge; philosophical, dark, contemplative poems by a widely published poet. Art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social #poetry #art #blueskypoetry #artonbluesky I was born into these tiny sounds of growing stems. icefloepress.net/2025/12/12/t...

Today at DEC. NEW WORKS project welcome U.K. poet & visual artist Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social Premiere of her new video poem & spoken word. Ty @vikkicwrites.bsky.social helping me choose this work. 'Carnassials graze my throat; I offer one my tongue.' icefloepress.net/2025/12/11/s...

Mykyta Ryzhykh is a widely published, brilliant Ukrainian poet & return contributor to Ice Floe. We are thrilled to feature some new poems and a vispo banner by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Subscribe to Ice Floe! The stone fell with a splash: This stone is not needed even by water. - Mykyta Ryzhykh.

I spoke with Betty. She was very emotional and asked me to tell you that “she would love to give each one of you a great big hug.” We’re so close to changing her life. If you can give $5 or $10, it would be awesome. If not, I completely understand, but a repost is free. Thanks very much.

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icefloepress.net/2025/12/07/n... Banner/header for the New Works Dec. project. Ty to @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @mjseyesopened.bsky.social in helping @rfredekenter.bsky.social to select this month's incredible offerings by international contributors. We release new pieces a few times every week🔥

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I cannot tell you how incisive, funny and just astonishing Durba’s scholarship and presence always is and I have been waiting with bated breath for this book. Treat yourself.

#ko-fi #helpfolkslive #urgent #help #Fundraiser #HelpFolksLive2025 #HelpSky #mutualaid 💸♥️

Covid aware folks: I need to replace my portable rechargeable air purifier. I need it for meetings, doctor visits and transport. It needs to fit in a totebag or backpack I previously had Pure Enrichment but it does not have the best reviews now. Any recs?

Submission period PROCESS /MARGINALIA / OTHER WOR(L)D(S) closes Sun. Nov. 30th at midnight Pacific Time. If you are working on a hybrid or have pieces unpublished & remarkable in form & content w/at least 2 elements of: #text, #image, #video, #sound #art #hybrid send to: [email protected]

😔 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

A DIRT SALE. starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10. discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.

Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.

#UrgentNeed #HelpFolksLive2025 🍉💕💸 www.gofundme.com/f/help-mitqa...

My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃 Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social! Link to order and more info in 🧵 DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙 Watch this space for events/news 😊

Eve Luckring 💙 from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press) @thetenderbetween.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

Only silence perfects silence. A.R. Ammons

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

New poetry! #poetry #experimentalpoetry

My new poetry collection, Neo—Dadaist Psyche, is out now! These poems are raw, dark, paranoid, radical, nonsensical, illogical, mythological, syncretic, eclectic, and first and foremost, Dadaist poems. Lulu: www.lulu.com/shop/rose-kn...

RIP, Alice Wong. Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

I’m not religious But the work these people do is amazing. I dropped off a couple bags of groceries yesterday. Find a place near you, help if you can www.stdavidsenglewood.org/jubilee-center

jay wright JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF GHOSTs www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42738/...

it's a good time to donate to your local food bank or soup kitchen

who am i to argue with The Southern Review of Books' placing The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife as a Best Southern Book for October 2025? 😊 southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/24/b...

So lovely to see In the Blueprint of Her Iris alongside Audacity of Form by @rfredekenter.bsky.social — one of my all time favourite hybrid books! An absolutely beautiful pairing. We hope you enjoy these & have a relaxing Sunday, @danadelibovi.bsky.social 💐📚☕️ @icefloepress.bsky.social #books

Sunday morning—our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social enjoying this beautiful gift of books from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social — Thank you!💙📚

Well, looks like she finally realized her career stalled as a MAGA piece of shit.

NOW AVAILABLE at website! IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS. History, self, ecologies, dystopia, diaspora: a 'talking about' ‘worlds’ natural, human, post-human, magically considered. A 1-year collaboration #poems & #vispo = The #Hybrid collection now available for sale. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

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

I will never forgive them.

Urban warfare in US cities?

ARRESTED FOR SITTING www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Guess whose work will be in Best New Poets 2025? Which goes to show, you can endure months of battling with hospital park and pay machines and poetry still wins, for all of us.