Eric Schmaltz

Eric Schmaltz, an intermedia artist, poet, scholar, and editor, is the author of numerous creative and scholarly works, including poetry books I CONFESS (Coach House Books) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing) and scholarly monograph Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). He also edited and introduced Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) and the forthcoming We Have Seasonal Bodies: The Poetry of Gerry Shikatani (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), and he was co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

Celestial Poesis: A Conversation with Kyle Flemmer

May 31, 2026 by Eric Schmaltz

Calgary-based poet, publisher, and digital artist Kyle Flemmer has long been a vital member of his literary communities, both in Canada and abroad, and he has just released his second full-length book of poetry, Supergiants, with Wolsak & Wynn. Supergiantsis impressive for the way it represents Flemmer’s robust imagination and technical skill as a poet working at the intersection of language and visual media.