ELEGY FOR CROSS CANADA BUS TRAVEL – HOW WORKERS FOUND COMMUNITY ON THE ROAD
by Robert Frede Kenter
One of Robert Frede Kenter’s Three Works for our Transit Issue:
“These works concern interpretive visions of the idea of "Transit": which flow out of personal history as a disabled writer and visual artist navigating the difficulty and margins of finding work and the energy deficits of chronic pain, illness and trauma states.”
Robert Frede Kenter is a writer, visual artist, visual poet & publisher of Ice Floe Press. Born in Hamilton, Ont., (the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas), Robert's work is published internationally in books, journals & anthologies over 3 decades. Their work concerns interrogations at the intersections of illness, class, patriarchy & resistance to personal & social oppression. Recently in Sedserio, a vispo project by Laura Kerr; talking about strawberries all the time; Watch Your Head; Pinhole; Ice Floe Press; Cough; Otoliths; others. Recent book, Father Tectonic (Ethelzine, 2025). Robert lives with ME/CFS which frames the process of making art & writing through a lens of disability.