I’m proud to announce the publication of the latest issue of THE MINUTE REVIEW! Issue #7 – the longest issue to date at a walloping 24 pages! – features an interview with rob mclennan by Asmaa Magdy, visual poetry by petra schulze-wollgast, Danni Storm, Kevin Stebner, Joe Devlin and Sal Nunchakov, prose by Gregory Betts, and reviews by Greg Thomas, Johanna Drucker, and myself. Truly an international whoop-up, this issue is available for $5 (CDN if in Canada, US funds if outside) via paypal to derek@housepress.ca OR! As a special offer, you can order all 7 issues of THE MINUTE REVIEW to date f ..read more

In celebration of 25 years of smallpress publishing under the housepress an No Press imprints, I am proud the announce the publication of PAPER & THREAD: 25 YEARS OF HOUSEPRESS AND NO PRESS Featuring essays, creative contributions, and reflections by Kyle Schlesinger, Charles Bernstein, Sacha Archer, Nasser Hussain, Richard Harrison, Kit Dobson, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin, George Bowering, Al Filreis, Peter Jaeger, Joakim Norling, Cameron Anstee, Johanna Drucker, Kyle Flemmer, petra schulze-wollgast, Christian Bok, Nick Montfort, Eric Schmaltz, Dani Spinosa, Helen Hajnoczky, bill bissett ..read more

Way back in filling Station # 23 (2001), Melody Jacobson and I contributed the hand-written chart “The History of Calgary Art Magazines So Far …” which listed the timeline of arts/literature magazines from Calgary to the best of our knowledge. That chart looked like this: obviously much has changed in the 22 (!!??) years since that original publication, and several of the magazines listed have since shuttered, only to be replaced by others in an on-going foment/instigation. I’ve created a rough-and-ready update of that chart here: and i am very interested in any additions/revisions/changes t ..read more

Thank you so much Astra Papachristodoulou for considering Surface Tension one of your “Books of the Year” in the Poetry Society’s Poetry News ..read more

CARVE OR MELT MEETS SCRATCH AND TINT by Jeff Crouch and I – a beautiful suite of full-colour responses/conversations in response to SURFACE TENSION – is now available from Paper View Books ..read more

So happy to be part of the Coach House Book podcast, chatting with Matthew James Weigel about visual poetry, form, design, and readability – thanks Coach House ..read more

Tom Konyves has included a statement of mine on the glass of Surrey Art Gallery as part of curation of the POETS WITH A VIDEO CAMERA: VIDEO POETRY 1980-2020 exhibition (Sept 17 – Dec 11, 2022) … I’m honoured to see my thinking on poetry in such a fabulous form! NO MORE POETRY THAT LOOKS LIKE POETRY, THAT ACTS LIKE POETRY, THAT IS INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE AS POETRY; I BELIEVE THAT POETS SHOULD LIKE TO WRITE IN A WAY WHICH DOESN’T RESEMBLE WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, THEY SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY CONTEMPORARY IN FORM AND CONTENT. – Derek Beaulieu ..read more

Thank you to the Rocky Mountain Outlook for covering my receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal: “Banff’s poet laureate receives platinum jubilee medal ..read more

Canadian retail giant Simons includes one of my visual poems on their website and newsletter ..read more

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