Derek Beaulieu

Read Ken Garland's FIRST THINGS FIRST manifesto (1964): designmanifestos.org/ken-garland-... and then read a ton more manifestos, each of which imagines a future for art and design: designmanifestos.org

Rest among the stars Walter Koenig (1936-2026)

NASA releases images of an intergalactic smiley-face: nautil.us/nasa-shares-... learn more about the weird and sinister implications of the Smiley Face from my anstruther press book: www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...

Read an update on the erosion of SUNY Buffalo's POETICS PROGRAM: poeticsinexile.crd.co

melttheicehatpattern.com/pattern melttheicehatpattern.com/history

"Simple Symmetry" - an excerpt from SURFACE TENSION (available from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social : chbooks.com/Books/S/Surf...), poems, like a Pink Floyd laser-light show, swirling around your retinas #instapoetry #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity

Bre Prettis & Kyo Stark's THE CULT OF DONE MANIFESTO was a huge influence on my book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Check out both & rethink how you create! the manifesto: medium.com/@bre/the-cul... Do It Wrong: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social

"Do It Wrong is incredibly positive and generative, and strikingly honest about how literary publishing works and doesn’t work" thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for reviewing DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/dere... @pressassembly.bsky.social

53. Do It Wrong: Poetry Masterclass with Derek Beaulieu 🗓️ October 23 at 10:00 AM In this radically liberating masterclass, Derek Beaulieu will hand poets, students, and educators a permission slip to take a path others reject, do the counter-intuitive thing, and embrace the weird.

download a PDF of Ivan Illich's DESCHOOLING SOCIETY: rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/0...

We’re very pleased to bring you Issue 3 of The Visual Poetry Times! So many great contributors including Lemn Sissay, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, @leiabutler.bsky.social, @gregchthomas.bsky.social & @alecfinlay.bsky.social! Order your copy via www.thepoetrykiosk.com 🗞️📨

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP bpNichol was born on Sep. 30, 1944. A founding member of The Four Horsemen, bp was recognized as a majoravant-garde writer of his time. Besides his small press and editorial activities, he often collaborated in writing, sound poetry performance, and linguistic research.

Attend @cornelluniversity.bsky.social where an essay is appropriate punishment for rape, but you'll be suspended for protesting the occupation of Gaza.

A small selection of books that informed DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...) ... each of these will blow your mind and send you down a rabbit hole of radical thinking. @pressassembly.bsky.social #poetry #teaching #poetrycommunity #instapoetry

THE MORE YOU TIGHTEN YOUR GRIP; a mimeographed and sewn plea for literary generosity (excerpted from @pressassembly.bsky.social's DO IT WRONG). Lovingly produced by Kevin McPherson eckhoff's hourteeth press: hourteeth.ca/2026/09/13/t...

Didja notice that the cover of DO IT WRONG was designed to echo the logo of THE ELECTRIC COMPANY? Hey, im a kid of the 70s raised on the children's television network (Thanks @pressassembly.bsky.social for indulging my nostalgia): assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... #poetry #poetrycommunity #poets

Nominate someone for the - Order of Canada (www.gg.ca/en/honours/c...), - Alberta Order of Excellence (www.alberta.ca/aoe-nominate...), - the Molson Prize (canadacouncil.ca/funding/priz...), - Canada's Walk of Fame (www.canadaswalkoffame.com/who-we-are/n...), or another way of saying thanks

Pablo Picasso's Constellation Drawings (1924)

“Beaulieu is the community-building champion that poetry needs in these dark times.”—Ian Williams Read DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY and rethink how you create. New from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... #poetry #poetrycommunity #teaching #instapoetry

RIP Peter Max 1937-2026

We should be so lucky

Thank you @garybarwin.bsky.social for your review of DO IT WRONG, new from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... Gary's new book THE COMEDIAN'S BOOK OF THE DEAD is fabulous: bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

Thrilled to see my work in the latest issue of THE LAKE RATS DISPATCH, find it on the streets of Buffalo (pen for scale)

DIRTY LITTLE ZINE: design and print your own 8-page zine!: dirtylittlezine.com

BACK TO SCHOOL? Sonya Huber's THE SHADOW SYLLABUS was vital for my book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink power dynamics in the classroom: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... (Huber's "shadow syllabus" is here: www.sonyahuber.com/blog/2014/08... @pressassembly.bsky.social

COMIC ARTISTS: @banffcentre's 2027 COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS residency w/ Jillian Tamaki, Gabrielle Bell, and Jesse Lonergan ... and peggy burns and tom devlin from D&Q!!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... HOLY SMOKES!! #comicbooks #comics

Pick up these fabulous titles by nasser hussain : THE POINT!, LOVE LANGUAGE, SKY WRI ETI NGS (coach house books : chbooks.com/Authors/H/Hu...) and OOO (anthruster press: www.anstrutherpress.com#/out-of-offi...) ... all playful, honest, minimalist and wonderful

Generosity is always sustainable-- as a poet I post free PDFs of everything i've written at derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ And i expand on my reasons why in DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY, new from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... #poetry #poetrycommunity

My rallying cry. We must reject these nine noxious questions, which are cynically designed to incite discrimination and foment distrust in our courts, our county, and our fellow Canadians. Say no to the nine. And please read snd share. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Canada #Alberta #notothenine

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social : Typewriter Art (or not?), by Margaret A.V. Gill periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/dere...

DO IT WRONG in the wild, this time at McNally Jackson, Rockefeller Center branch, NYC! Order your copy from your local bookstore or direct from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... (Thanks for the photo @slipsslips.bsky.social !)

New @banffcentre.bsky.social lit arts residencies: Spring Writers: Ross, Schofield, O'Neill Lit. Journalism: Al-Solaylee, Kidd, di Cintio Summer Writers: Melgard, Howard, Allen Comics: Bell, Tamaki, Lonergan Fantastic & Futuristic: El-Mohtar, Varghese, Johnson www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts

new from No Press: "PREMIEREMENT / Firstly" by PAUL ELUARD, in new English translation by Ross Belot and Sarah Burant. Limited edition of 60 copies, email derek@housepress.ca to order: derekbeaulieu.ca/2026/08/28/n...

download a free PDF of James Maynard's "POETRY IN THE MAKING: A Bibliography of publications by graduate students in the Poetics Program, University at Buffalo, 1991-2016" and see the massive literary impact the poetics program had: library.buffalo.edu/content/dam/...

Just heard that the UB Poetics program at SUNY-Buffalo has been eliminated. Such a massive loss. "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away." @justbuffalolit.bsky.social

Rest in peace Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026)

With the us #tariffs and #tradewar happening, lets ensure that #canauthors get some love. Share the Canadian authors on your bookshelves and tag with #mycanadianshelves to spread the word of excellent Canadian authors & poets who you recommend! I'll go 1st, here's #mycanadianshelves #elbowsup

Download a free PDF of George Bowering's AT WAR WITH THE U.S. (1974, talonbooks): drive.google.com/file/d/1y1YV...

TEACHERS! STUDENTS! Prettis & Stark's CULT OF DONE MANIFESTO was a massive inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink how you create: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social @kiostark.bsky.social (More here: medium.com/@bre/the-cul...)

"Libraries Found, and Lost" -- an excerpt from DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY is included in the latest issue of @albertaviews.bsky.social, thanks! DO IT WRONG can be ordered here, courtesy @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...