Eric Schmaltz
@eschmaltzzz.bsky.social
possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
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August 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested"
- Gerry Shikatani
- Gerry Shikatani
June 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested"
- Gerry Shikatani
- Gerry Shikatani
Cameron Anstee on small press culture
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Cameron Anstee on small press culture
“When you’re in that exhausted stage you are out of control. You can’t keep the ordinary social forms. You are forced to break them because there is no way to handle them … A lot of my work is concerned with exhaustion leading to an opening” (Vito Acconci, 1971)
May 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“When you’re in that exhausted stage you are out of control. You can’t keep the ordinary social forms. You are forced to break them because there is no way to handle them … A lot of my work is concerned with exhaustion leading to an opening” (Vito Acconci, 1971)
Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)
May 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)
@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...
Amanda Earl : on Judith Copithorne
When Joakim Norling of Timglaset Editions told me he had chosen green for the end papers for Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry aft...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...
"In the luminous labyrinth of language, our old friend content shimmers like a chrome relic from a future we’re already living. How fascinating and how frustrating that a single word should map our species’ psychic trajectory so precisely, so inevitably." transmediale.de/en/journal/e...
transmedialetransmediale | Editor’s Note on Content
transmediale.de
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"In the luminous labyrinth of language, our old friend content shimmers like a chrome relic from a future we’re already living. How fascinating and how frustrating that a single word should map our species’ psychic trajectory so precisely, so inevitably." transmediale.de/en/journal/e...
“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings”
- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
April 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings”
- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power”
(bpNichol)
(bpNichol)
April 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power”
(bpNichol)
(bpNichol)
“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)
April 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)
"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound."
Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...
Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...
Allegra Sloman : An elaborate scaffold of meaning(s) : on David Dowker
David Joseph Dowker was in his 70th year when he died on 5SE in North York General on March 24, 2025, subsequent to a fal...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound."
Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...
Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...
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Happy National Poetry Month! We're back with the next feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Preview "The Place You Leave and the Place You Return To" from her debut collection, No One Knows Us There, which is out now! bookhugpress.ca/national-poe...
National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jessica Bebenek | Book*hug Press
We’re back with the third feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek!
Jessica is a long time member of Book*hug's community, and we are very happy to final...
bookhugpress.ca
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Happy National Poetry Month! We're back with the next feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Preview "The Place You Leave and the Place You Return To" from her debut collection, No One Knows Us There, which is out now! bookhugpress.ca/national-poe...
Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:
ah, hell; poet David Dowker has died;
thewhig.remembering.ca/obituary/dav...
thewhig.remembering.ca/obituary/dav...
Remembering the life of David Joseph Dowker
David Joseph Dowker passed away. This is the full obituary where you can express condolences and share memories. Published in the Kingston Whig-Standard on 2025-04-05.
thewhig.remembering.ca
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:
Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous
April 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous
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Wait, did everyone notice that THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, edited by Brynn Saito & @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, is 40% off alongside all other poetry titles @haymarketbooks.org for National Poetry Month, oh my🌺
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...
The Gate of Memory
www.haymarketbooks.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Wait, did everyone notice that THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, edited by Brynn Saito & @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, is 40% off alongside all other poetry titles @haymarketbooks.org for National Poetry Month, oh my🌺
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...
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🖊✨Call for Papers! We are accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Suburb Nation."
Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)
Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)
March 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🖊✨Call for Papers! We are accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Suburb Nation."
Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)
Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)
“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.”
- Sheila Watson
- Sheila Watson
March 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.”
- Sheila Watson
- Sheila Watson
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker
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And see you in Halifax this very week!! I believe I will be on stage talking to Alexander MacLeod for part of this, love it. Look at that title, gosh I love to bang the drum about art and class! But that's what happens when you make a 400 page book about it eventscalendar.smu.ca/smuhalifax/d...
2025 Cyril Byrne Lecture with Kate Beaton
Fri. 21 Mar., 7:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. [ADT]: We Were Always Working and Making Art: Rethinking the Economics and Value of Creativity An evening with Kate Beaton New York Times Bestseller, Winner of Cana...
eventscalendar.smu.ca
March 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
And see you in Halifax this very week!! I believe I will be on stage talking to Alexander MacLeod for part of this, love it. Look at that title, gosh I love to bang the drum about art and class! But that's what happens when you make a 400 page book about it eventscalendar.smu.ca/smuhalifax/d...
It's been a long time coming!
The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...
The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...
March 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's been a long time coming!
The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...
The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...
This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events:
1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198
2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm
1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198
2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm
March 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events:
1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198
2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm
1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198
2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm
"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anna Veprinska
Anna Veprinska is the author of Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis . She was a finalist in the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...
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I can't speak to enrollments or financial viability. But I echo the concern that cuts seem to be happening without academic & social repercussions being accounted for – and that's a sector-wide problem, not just a York problem. The liberal arts vs STEM paradigm is a political construct.
March 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I can't speak to enrollments or financial viability. But I echo the concern that cuts seem to be happening without academic & social repercussions being accounted for – and that's a sector-wide problem, not just a York problem. The liberal arts vs STEM paradigm is a political construct.