"You're Out of Excuses" -- an entreaty to publish in small press forms ... excerpted from DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY, new from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... #poetry #instpoetry #poetrycommunity #doitwrong

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📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about ‘em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Poetry: The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White! @annajswan.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

My wonderful and talented wife, @emmadawn.com, was interviewed by the Kingstonist in their profile on the Mending Ways exhibition. Her sound piece, 'It's 6pm in Kingston,' can be experienced until July 17 at the Tett Centre. Check it out! www.kingstonist.com/news/free-ki...

Free Kingston art exhibition 'Mending Ways' explores different aspects of healing

(Kingston, Ontario) Cultivate Arts Commons is inviting the Kingston community to their gallery to view their free Annual Juried Exhibition 'Mending Ways'.

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📣 Happy pub day to the effervescent ride that is Mom Camp! 📣 Now available for your reading pleasure from your local bookstore or library branch. “Deeply strange, well observed, and often laugh-out-loud funny.”—Gabrielle Drolet, author of Look Ma, No Hands

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We’re giving away a copy of MOM CAMP by Veronique Darwin and a MOM CAMP hat! To enter, sign up for our mailing list before Sunday May 3 at 11:59 at assemblypress.ca/subscribe The winner will be notified by email on on Monday May 4, so make sure the email address you use is legit, please!

📣Do It Wrong is here! 📣 Happy pub day to @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century, a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry! Available now from your fav local bookstore or library

Derek Beaulieu's new collection publishes on April 7. Read an excerpt here: https://bit.ly/4v79agQ

Happy Opening Day* to all who celebrate! ⚾️🏟️🎉 Good planning is always having a copy of Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social within reach in case of a rain delay. Grab a copy from your favourite bookseller!

See y'all at Derek's Toronto launch in a couple weeks!

Derek Beaulieu@derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

TORONTO!: Come by FLYING BOOKS (784 College) on APRIL 10th at 6:30pm for the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY! flyingbooks.ca/events/48336... (check out @pressassembly.bsky.social & the book: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)

TORONTO!: Come by FLYING BOOKS (784 College) on APRIL 10th at 6:30pm for the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY! flyingbooks.ca/events/48336... (check out @pressassembly.bsky.social & the book: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)

Will jump into the discourse to say that, while I am an absolute nut for old baseball -- 19th century, deadball, '20s, polyester era, all of it -- if every baseball team in 2026 carried itself the way Team USA has comported itself during this WBC, I wouldn't watch baseball.

📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp

📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry. Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚 assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel! “Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews assemblypress.ca/shop/vessel

I really love this one, it's so so good.

Assembly Press@pressassembly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes. Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚

2026 is the 10th anniversary of my 1st book of baseball essays, The Utility of Boredom. I'm writing a preface to an anniversary edition that @invisibooks.bsky.social will publish in '26 and I’m struck by some parallels between this moment and 2015. 🧵1/

Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit

Books to Read at the World Series · Lists · 49th Shelf

Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.

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Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations. More details on our website!

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...

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

SAVE THE DATE! I'd love it if you could join me to celebrate the launch of NMLCT: poems Wed, Sept 24, 2025 at The Piston 937 Bloor Street West, from 7 to 10pm [festivities included] Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch

We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time. www.transitbooks.org/donate

Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.

Yes, this. My book is called Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. It's about how a game some of us love for fun is also a job. And about a doctor who was really good at striking out Babe Ruth. Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling. assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

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Hub Pruett, LHP, St. Louis Browns, 1922 (Photo by Charles M. Conlon). Pruett's story fascinated me, and pursuing it led me to write Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (April 15, @pressassembly.bsky.social).

A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.

The founding of Assembly Press, her ongoing love for her debut collection, and how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication - my conversation with author and publisher @nashls.bsky.social thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...