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...

"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...

happy holidays -- here are FREE PDFs of my books FRACTAL ECONOMIES (2006, derekbeaulieu.ca/wp-content/u...), FLATLAND (2007, writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors...), KERN (2014, derekbeaulieu.ca/wp-content/u...), and A, A NOVEL (2017, monoskop.org/File:Beaulie...) #giveitaway #hohoho #beyourownpirate

my "2025 Year in Review": derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/12/19/2...

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... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!

My "Most Engaging Books of 2025" list: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/12/12/m... #bestof2025 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

We said goodbye to our lovely Alice this morning. She had been a part of our family for 19 years (she had a long 22-year life) & there's a big fuzzy hole in our hearts. While she was cantankerous & pointy, she also loved perching on shoulders, laying in a sunspot, or sleeping next to her people.

Rest in peace FRANK GEHRY: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Journalists & non-fiction writers! Apply to be part of @banffcentre.bsky.social's LITERARY JOURNALISM 2026 residency & be mentored by faculty Manjula Martin, Dr. Cheryl Thompson, Shawn Micallef, & professional guest Dan Wells (Biblioasis) - deadline is Dec 10th : www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Wally Wood's "22 panels that always work!!" -- and don't forget his advice "Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up."

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...

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!

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

Do what he says and steal a PDF of Abbie Hoffman's indispensable STEAL THIS BOOK: dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy...

newly re-available for order: SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS: derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/11/07/n...

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!)

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Writers! apply today for 2-6 weeks in @banffcentre.bsky.social's Leighton Studios; a great chance to finish that manuscript, start new thoughts, and gain some solitude and brain-space: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/int...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Order your copy of WHY SELF-PUBLISH UNDER FASCISM? by Marc Fischer (@marc-fischer.bsky.social): halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

"A History of Poetry Comics" by JB attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social

"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...

watch as I transform Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" into a poetic shipwreck afloat on waves of detritus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6eW...

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 [email protected] to order). With SIGILS FOR INSPIRATION Stebner creates work of breathtaking sensitivity exposing a beautiful, unexpected symmetry.

hey folks: nominate a writer for the Order of Alberta (www.alberta.ca/aoe-nominate...), Order of Canada (www.gg.ca/en/honours/c...), Molson Prize (canadacouncil.ca/funding/priz...), or for Canada's Walk of Fame (www.canadaswalkoffame.com/the-walk-of-...) ...

Hey members of the Writers' Guild of Alberta: nominate a worthy candidate for the GOLDEN PEN AWARD!: writersguild.ca/golden-pen-n... ( @writersguildab.bsky.social )

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The 23rd printing of Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? (terrible color in the photo!). I've hand-made over 1,500 copies since May 1st and most have been distributed/sold. Still available and people are teaching the text so there's a discount if you buy 10+. Get it from halfletterpress.com for just $3.