Kyle Flemmer — Supergiants w/ Guests
Schedule
Wed, 23 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8 | Calgary, AB
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Join us for the launch of Kyle Flemmer's Supergiants! Kyle will be accompanied by special guests Helen Hajnoczky, Tasnuva Hayden, and David Martin. You can pick up your copy of the book here: https://shorturl.at/IOILi
ABOUT THE BOOK
For millennia humanity has looked upwards and traced stories in the night sky, projecting our human wants and desires outward. In Supergiants, Kyle Flemmer turns his gaze in the other direction. What does our reach for the stars say about us? Working with the technical language of engineering and astrophysics, Flemmer reorients the reader within our galaxy. Families of asteroids expand to contain their physical attributes, the mythic stories of their names and the histories of real people. We see the course of lunar exploration through the fate of the flags planted on each mission. Nebulae, blue giants and black holes enfold us. Interspersed throughout are a series of found/collage poems that visually reconfigure the elements of space exploration and our understanding of it. Through it all, Flemmer shows how we turn to the stars to make sense of ourselves and our place in the universe.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist. He founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Co. in 2014 and released his first book, Barcode Poetry, in 2021. Supergiants is Kyle's second book, and his next, The Wiki of Babel, is forthcoming from University of Calgary Press. Kyle has authored many chapbooks and his work has appeared in anthologies and exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
Helen Hajnoczky (she/her) is the author of the poetry books Frost & Pollen, Magyarázni, and Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising. Her most recent chapbooks are “By the Shores of Issyk-Kul” from above/ground press, and “I know the body is for more than dying” from No Press. She can be found online at ateacozyisasometimes.com
Tasnuva Hayden is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta, where she works as a consulting engineer and editor for filling Station, Canada’s experimental literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Nōd, J’aipur Journal, Anti-Lang, carte blanche, Qwerty, and more. She is also the author of An Orchid Astronomy (University of Calgary Press), a book of experimental poetry cataloguing a migrating requiem of memories, mythologies, and science in the face of climate catastrophe and personal collapse.
David Martin has published three collections of poems: Tar Swan (NeWest Press, 2018), Kink Bands (NeWest Press, 2023), and Limited Verse, (University of Calgary Press, 2024). His work was recently selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis).
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Where is it happening?
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8Event Location & Nearby Stays:
