possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book) Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University https://ericschmaltz.com/https://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lrgpnqfync2q"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested" - Gerry Shikatani12 Jun 2025 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrgpnqfync2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lpks75lrsc22Cameron Anstee on small press culture20 May 2025 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpks75lrsc22https://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lperfq7nmc2o“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)17 May 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lperfq7nmc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lper2o5pyk2iJoseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)17 May 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lper2o5pyk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lpeqz6dyt22i@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/amanda-earl-on-judith-copithorne.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawKVfNhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFtYms3V2tFRVY0RUJVTUplAR5raCfuq_xal9Q-HBvtrfMWWAslpX8c_I0eudQ0ofjD-wPk6UwJvJUrWuRO8Q_aem_QCwDiz7P6dyNBfj9qXKAcw17 May 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpeqz6dyt22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3loqaiivbok2x"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." https://transmediale.de/en/journal/editors-note-on-content09 May 2025 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqaiivbok2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lnvogogewk23“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings” - Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda28 Apr 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnvogogewk23https://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmuuscub722xCanadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: https://www.caut.ca/latest/2025/04/caut-advises-academics-against-non-essential-travel-us15 Apr 2025 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuuscub722xhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmprwf7zls2e“[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)13 Apr 2025 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmprwf7zls2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmph7lzsjc2n“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)13 Apr 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmph7lzsjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmoymftubs2z"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound." Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/allegra-sloman-elaborate-scaffold-of.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJohVlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrBKZKo9e497y4O7nviqVvWDs38dQByPLulcR4k2SPNsrAIpctCewyBazut4_aem_CT7gQkXHpDQLN8tPSEqIWw13 Apr 2025 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmoymftubs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmdrf2ltmk2zSaddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died: [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2025 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdrf2ltmk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lmdqv3z3rk2zRevisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous09 Apr 2025 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdqv3z3rk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3ll5xiojnjk25“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.” - Sheila Watson24 Mar 2025 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5xiojnjk25https://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lko4ywiats2gIt'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! https://ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousiereview/issue/view/105418 Mar 2025 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lko4ywiats2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lkl7ob4tns24This 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 pm17 Mar 2025 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkl7ob4tns24https://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lkc7zyqmrk2i"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 https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with_0912038739.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJAQ9RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ6jN-kcvHzFKAMRuFocAZVQ9TDh53M4f7qnB3oDIsHwjoIFmO8DSLO-yA_aem_patFXM1wm2qCZTBhjTA7IQ13 Mar 2025 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkc7zyqmrk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3lkc4mf253c2lhttps://torontolife.com/city/york-professor-frances-latchford-on-the-universitys-decision-to-slash-liberal-arts-programs/13 Mar 2025 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkc4mf253c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3ljvdolcs4s2kToo much to say about this in a single post — IWP’s history and such — but this is indeed another huge loss: https://lithub.com/the-state-department-pulled-1-million-in-funding-for-the-iowa-international-writing-program/08 Mar 2025 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvdolcs4s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/eschmaltzzz.bsky.social/post/3ljrx2upcxc2gThe latest issue of Amodern is live: AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE Typography, Alternative Print Technologies, and Everyday Ephemera https://amodern.net/article/amodern-12-countertype/07 Mar 2025 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:abwvs6gapx3nithedefofufh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljrx2upcxc2g