Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist based in Calgary on Treaty 7 territory. His multidisciplinary work explores the intersections of poetry, code, and visual design, drawing on traditions of concrete and conceptual art to examine how digital systems shape human expression and artistic possibility.
Kyle is the author of Barcode Poetry, Supergiants, and TzAR: Pixel Art Anthology. His next, The Wiki of Babel, is forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press in 2026. Kyle’s writing has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and featured in numerous print and online venues. He has performed for the Jasper Dark Sky Festival, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and at literary festivals and events across Canada.
In 2014, Kyle founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Co., an experimental small press that has published nearly two hundred writers and artists working in innovative literary, visual, and hybrid forms. His curatorial and editorial practice includes projects with the League of Canadian Poets, Writers’ Guild of Alberta, filling Station magazine, and Art on Tezos, among others.
Kyle holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Calgary, where he researched digital poetics, and a BA Hons. in Western Society & Culture and Creative Writing from Concordia University. He currently works with Athabasca University Press as an Open Educational Resources Project Coordinator.