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
Non-fiction writers! Journalists! Creative non-fiction writers! Apply today for @banffcentre.bsky.social's LITERARY JOURNALISM 2026 residency!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Non-fiction writers! Journalists! Creative non-fiction writers! Apply today for @banffcentre.bsky.social's LITERARY JOURNALISM 2026 residency!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
Share in my "Five favorite Grateful Dead live recordings" via Stride Magazine: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/five...
Five Favourite Grateful Dead live recordings
Five Favourite Grateful Dead live recordings The Grateful Dead performed, toured, and recorded for 3...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Share in my "Five favorite Grateful Dead live recordings" via Stride Magazine: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/five...
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The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY is available for preorder from Assembly Press: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
And thanks to Ian Williams and Jeffrey Lependorf for the blurbs!
And thanks to Ian Williams and Jeffrey Lependorf for the blurbs!
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY is available for preorder from Assembly Press: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
And thanks to Ian Williams and Jeffrey Lependorf for the blurbs!
And thanks to Ian Williams and Jeffrey Lependorf for the blurbs!
download free PDFs of everything i've published in 2025 : 5 chapbooks and 5 issues of THE MINUTE REVIEW: derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ (and everything back to 1997 is also there for free perusal and download)
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
download free PDFs of everything i've published in 2025 : 5 chapbooks and 5 issues of THE MINUTE REVIEW: derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ (and everything back to 1997 is also there for free perusal and download)
"The New Colossus" by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"The New Colossus" by @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social
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...
Reposted by Derek Beaulieu
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP
bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.
Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...
bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.
Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...
September 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP
bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.
Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...
bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.
Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...
see you there!
Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
see you there!
Maryam Mulialee discusses my VEXATIONS Project as part of her paper "Recycling Destroyed Cities: Ruined Archives in Copy Art" in Frames Cinema Journal (issue 19, Mar 2022): ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/FC...
View of Recycling Destroyed Cities: Ruined Archives in Copy Art
ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Maryam Mulialee discusses my VEXATIONS Project as part of her paper "Recycling Destroyed Cities: Ruined Archives in Copy Art" in Frames Cinema Journal (issue 19, Mar 2022): ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/FC...
Reposted by Derek Beaulieu
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
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frogpond: before @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
frogpond: before @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
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...
