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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bedside. #current #read

I Confess @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Jun 12

"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested"

- Gerry Shikatani

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · May 20

Cameron Anstee on small press culture

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · May 17

“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)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · May 17

Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · May 17

@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...

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · May 9

"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

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 28

“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings”

- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 13

“[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)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 13

“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 13

"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...

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...

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · Apr 10

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...

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 9

Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Apr 9

ah, hell; poet David Dowker has died;
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

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 9

Oh dear, so saddened to hear this

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Apr 9

Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

The Gate of Memory

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Canadian Literature @canadianlit.bsky.social · Mar 28

🖊✨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)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Mar 24

“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

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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

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...

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

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Mar 19

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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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Mar 17

This was so fun!

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thanks for sharing! 🖤

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