Derek Beaulieu
@derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Do what he says and steal a PDF of Abbie Hoffman's indispensable STEAL THIS BOOK: dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy...
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Do what he says and steal a PDF of Abbie Hoffman's indispensable STEAL THIS BOOK: dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy...
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
WRITERS! Apply to @banffcentre.bsky.social's LATE SPRING 2026 RESIDENCY! 2 weeks mentored by Jessica Westhead, Sawako Nakayasu, & Philip Terry on the side of beautiful Sleeping Buffalo Guardian Mountain! Scholarships available!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
WRITERS! Apply to @banffcentre.bsky.social's LATE SPRING 2026 RESIDENCY! 2 weeks mentored by Jessica Westhead, Sawako Nakayasu, & Philip Terry on the side of beautiful Sleeping Buffalo Guardian Mountain! Scholarships available!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
Congrats to both Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie for sharing the 2025 FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
(super excited that both Vidyan and Karen will be faculty at @banffcentre.bsky.social this coming year!)
(super excited that both Vidyan and Karen will be faculty at @banffcentre.bsky.social this coming year!)
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Congrats to both Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie for sharing the 2025 FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
(super excited that both Vidyan and Karen will be faculty at @banffcentre.bsky.social this coming year!)
(super excited that both Vidyan and Karen will be faculty at @banffcentre.bsky.social this coming year!)
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... ... foregrounding sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... ... foregrounding sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
Today is 7 years on the job as Director of Literary Arts at @banffcentre.bsky.social . Since 2018 we've built 40+ residency programs for over 900 writers with equitable scholarship rates, topical residencies, international faculty & studio space for writers: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Today is 7 years on the job as Director of Literary Arts at @banffcentre.bsky.social . Since 2018 we've built 40+ residency programs for over 900 writers with equitable scholarship rates, topical residencies, international faculty & studio space for writers: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts
subscribe to THE VISUAL POETRY TIMES for all the international news, reviews, interviews, and features; all lovingly edited by @heyastranaut.bsky.social : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
subscribe to THE VISUAL POETRY TIMES for all the international news, reviews, interviews, and features; all lovingly edited by @heyastranaut.bsky.social : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
Apply by October 15th to be part of
@banffcentre.bsky.social's SPRING WRITERS RESIDENCY with mentorship from Eden Robinson, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Nicole Sealey (and professional guest Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books) OMG! : www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
@banffcentre.bsky.social's SPRING WRITERS RESIDENCY with mentorship from Eden Robinson, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Nicole Sealey (and professional guest Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books) OMG! : www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Apply by October 15th to be part of
@banffcentre.bsky.social's SPRING WRITERS RESIDENCY with mentorship from Eden Robinson, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Nicole Sealey (and professional guest Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books) OMG! : www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
@banffcentre.bsky.social's SPRING WRITERS RESIDENCY with mentorship from Eden Robinson, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Nicole Sealey (and professional guest Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books) OMG! : www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
Rest in Peace CLEMENTE PADIN (1939-2025); such an exceptional publisher, editor & visual poet, He was imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship for 2 years for the crime of "vilification and mocking of the armed forces" through his poetry. It was a privilege to call him a friend & to publish him.
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Rest in Peace CLEMENTE PADIN (1939-2025); such an exceptional publisher, editor & visual poet, He was imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship for 2 years for the crime of "vilification and mocking of the armed forces" through his poetry. It was a privilege to call him a friend & to publish him.
CBC lists 10 pieces of lost canadian art, every artwork suggests a branch of cansdian art lost forever: www.cbc.ca/arts/10-lost...
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
CBC lists 10 pieces of lost canadian art, every artwork suggests a branch of cansdian art lost forever: www.cbc.ca/arts/10-lost...
I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
Order your copy of WHY SELF-PUBLISH UNDER FASCISM? by Marc Fischer (@marc-fischer.bsky.social): halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
September 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Order your copy of WHY SELF-PUBLISH UNDER FASCISM? by Marc Fischer (@marc-fischer.bsky.social): halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
"No other writer of our time & place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"No other writer of our time & place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
Sal Nunchakov keeps doing strange things with my portrait (that's fernando aguiar holding my head in the bottom right hand corner)
September 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Sal Nunchakov keeps doing strange things with my portrait (that's fernando aguiar holding my head in the bottom right hand corner)
new from No Press: SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION by Kevin Stebner: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/09/04/s...
Only 50 copies, $5 ea incl postage (email / paypal derek@housepress.ca to order). With SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION Stebner creates work of breathtaking sensitivity exposing a beautiful, unexpected symmetry.
Only 50 copies, $5 ea incl postage (email / paypal derek@housepress.ca to order). With SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION Stebner creates work of breathtaking sensitivity exposing a beautiful, unexpected symmetry.
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
new from No Press: SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION by Kevin Stebner: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/09/04/s...
Only 50 copies, $5 ea incl postage (email / paypal derek@housepress.ca to order). With SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION Stebner creates work of breathtaking sensitivity exposing a beautiful, unexpected symmetry.
Only 50 copies, $5 ea incl postage (email / paypal derek@housepress.ca to order). With SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION Stebner creates work of breathtaking sensitivity exposing a beautiful, unexpected symmetry.
Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
Rest in peace Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025), every concrete poet lives in his shadow...
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Rest in peace Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025), every concrete poet lives in his shadow...
WOW! @banffcentre.bsky.social's 2026/27 Literary Arts Residencies w/ Westhead, Terry & Nakayasu; Martin, Thompson & Micallef; Dickinson, Bellamy & Abel; Prose, Weiden & Arthurson; Montfort, Bertram & Iwamoto; Bidini, Campbell & Fader! so much awesome!: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts
August 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
WOW! @banffcentre.bsky.social's 2026/27 Literary Arts Residencies w/ Westhead, Terry & Nakayasu; Martin, Thompson & Micallef; Dickinson, Bellamy & Abel; Prose, Weiden & Arthurson; Montfort, Bertram & Iwamoto; Bidini, Campbell & Fader! so much awesome!: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts
Download THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK, which is banned the UK, and which the FBI called "one of the crudest, low-brow, paranoiac writing efforts ever attempted" : archive.org/details/thea...
August 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Download THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK, which is banned the UK, and which the FBI called "one of the crudest, low-brow, paranoiac writing efforts ever attempted" : archive.org/details/thea...
Hey @uni-roehampton.bsky.social -- I sincerely hope that you will restore my artwork on the side of Fincham Court. The piece serves as a reminder of the exceptional writers, poets, instructors, and students who were part of your Creative Writing department: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/08/15/d...
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hey @uni-roehampton.bsky.social -- I sincerely hope that you will restore my artwork on the side of Fincham Court. The piece serves as a reminder of the exceptional writers, poets, instructors, and students who were part of your Creative Writing department: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/08/15/d...