iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I look for you like a mushroom peering through soil & new earthly shades / I find you at the riverside & I give you a golden melon that I grew just last spring / I tuck your book into the bottom of my bookcase & walk by softly each day Reading @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s I CONFESS.

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"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 · 20/05/2025

Cameron Anstee on small press culture

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“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 · 17/05/2025

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

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"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...

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transmedialetransmediale | Editor’s Note on Content

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

“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 · 13/04/2025

“[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)

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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...

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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 · 09/04/2025

Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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...

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The Gate of Memory

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Canadian Literature @canadianlit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🖊✨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 · 24/03/2025

“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 · 20/03/2025

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...

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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.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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 · 18/03/2025

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...

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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 · 18/03/2025

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 · 17/03/2025

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

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"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...

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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...

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Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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.

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Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. We know that the majority of Canadians don't support political interference in research and education. We need these freedoms. #StopNSBill12: www.ansut.ca/bill-12/

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Bill 12

Make Your Voice Heard Send a letter to Premier Houston, Minister Maguire, the Dept of Advanced Education, and your MLA Call Premier Houston, Minister Maguire, the Dept of Advanced Edu…

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“There are no minor facts on life, there is only the one tremendous one” - Elizabeth Smart

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"The ears do not close. Imagination does not sleep. A politics that stems from listening is a politics of imagination. A politics of the unseen, from the unseen: the inner ear, of the world." Nicolas Jaar, from "The Ear of the Storm" transmediale.de/en/journal/t...

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transmedialetransmediale | The Ear of the Storm

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"I always feel I am questioning when I write novels, and I wanted to deal with my long-lasting question about human violence and the possibility or impossibility of refusing it." - Han Kang on writing The Vegetarian

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zk. @littlesparrows.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These aren’t out officially until April 15, but I have a STACK of them sitting on my desk. Just saying…

A large stack of copies of the poetry book Country Music by Zane Koss.

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"I would like to write like you. You are exploring what I would like to dare.” - Nicole Brossard Over on @periodicities.bsky.social, I muse upon a poem's beginnings, and its emergence from affinities I share with companion writers and artists. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/eric...

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Eric Schmaltz : Resonances and Affinities: A Poem’s Beginnings

How does a poem begin? “Influence is related to admiration. I would like to write like you. You are exploring what I...

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The latest episode of Poem Talk –– featuring Al Filreis, Bob Holman, Christy Davids, and Herman Beavers on June Jordan –– is out now: jacket2.org/podcasts/rad...

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Radioaction Riding Regal (PoemTalk #205) | Jacket2

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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM is now available for pre-order from World Poetry Books! I started this project almost ten years ago, can't believe it's finally going to exist in the material realm. worldpoetrybooks.com/books/theory...

The cover of Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream.

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Never not disgusted by the way educational institutions use the language of disability and accessibility to justify their increased use of predatory AI. Apparently, instructors have no right to guard their IP against companies like Amazon, our lectures used to train the tech that will replace us.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

York University is suspending admissions to over a dozen programs in the fall, likely planning to shut them down completely in the next few years. Faculty member shares this list that went over the YU Faculty Association council email list. Astonishing

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Please join us for this—if you aren’t in Philly, here is the livestream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3HS...

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Figure and Trade: A Poetics Book Launch

YouTube video by Kelly Writers House

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🧵intergraphia Open Call Submission window: 3 March, 9 am GMT to 10 March, midnight GMT. Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times. We will try to make our decision by 21 April. We're sorry that we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions...

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Monday 3 March, 9 am GMT to Monday 10 March, 12 am (midnight) GMT

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Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times.
We will endeavour to make our decision by 21 April.
We regret that due to the anticipated number of submissions we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions.
Guidelines
We are seeking submissions for Intergraphia Series 4 pamphlets to be launched in late Autumn 2025.
intergraphia is an intersectional and inclusive publishing project. We are interested in hybrid works which push at the edges and boundaries of text and visual work.
Your submission should be a completed work, not a work in progress. Familiarise yourself with our previously published work to get a better understanding of what we are interested in. (https://intergraphia.cargo.site/).
Make sure to carefully read our formatting specifications below.'

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Cameron Anstee in @periodicities.bsky.social: "I like the expanse one can find with a reduced palette; the opening yielded by close attention to something very small; the conflicts between the work and the ways it can be encountered." periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/came...

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Cameron Anstee : On Minimalism

How does a poem begin? “Less is.” Michael e. Casteels, minimalism: an essay I don’t know how poems begin...

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