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NIKKI REIMER (she/they), critically acclaimed creative writer/artist, creates poetry, essays, and multimedia artworks that interrogate capitalist structures and consider the variegated forms that grief can take.
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Essays, anthologies and chapbook publications.
“we like this or that new work
we like that new cat
we don’t like the books that we tell each other to like
is it good? should i read it?
what are you working on?
should i read it?”
– From No Town Called We
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NIKKI REIMER’s critical and creative work grapples with death, grief, illness, and late capitalism. Despite this, people seem to think they are pretty funny. Their fourth book of poetry, No Town Called We (Talonbooks, 2023) was long listed for both the Raymond Souster and the Pat Lowther Memorial Awards.
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NIKKI REIMER (pronouns she/they), poet and interdisciplinary artist, works at the intersections of the analog and the digital, challenging conventional responses to bodies, death, and capital. Their fourth book of poetry, No Town Called We, was published by Talon Books in fall 2023. GRIEFWAVE.com, a multimedia, web-based, extended elegy, was launched in February 2022. She is currently exploring technocultural death discourse while working towards an MA in communication and media studies. A fifth-generation white prairie settler of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent, Reimer currently lives on the occupied lands of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region of southern Alberta.
Though their practice began in the literary arts, Reimer’s artistic work has taken turns into multiple forms of interdisciplinary artmaking, including visual art and video, installation work, and performance practice. Reimer’s work has been extensively reviewed, often noting their embrace of dark humour and feminist refusal.
Chris Reimer Legacy Fund Society
Reimer is one of the founding co-directors of the Chris Reimer Legacy Fund Society, an Alberta registered charitable society that funds the Chris Reimer Legacy Award at the Mount Royal University Conservatory and contributes to dance bursaries for boys from marginalized backgrounds at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. The Chris Reimer Legacy Fund Society has released two posthumous projects of Chris Reimer's music: The Chad Tape, and the full-length vinyl album Hello People, both sold out with digital versions still available.
