“Beaulieu is the community-building champion that poetry needs in these dark times.”—Ian Williams Read DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY and rethink how you create. New from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... #poetry #poetrycommunity #teaching #instapoetry

Meet the finalists for the 2026 #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers: ◢ Gwen Aube for Missed Connections with Tall Girls (@littlepuss.net) ◢ Tiana Reid for Nightnursing (icehouse poetry) ◢ @mishasolomon.bsky.social for My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet (Brick Books)

"When the writer is working in the mode of creative nonfiction, where fidelity to truth is paramount, and tools of literary craft, as much as rhetorical training, are available, well, all the better. Strangeness and fact are each other’s familiars, after all." www.writersdigest.com/certain-smal...

Certain Small Things and Haunting Oddities: How I Craft Essays

Author Erin Wunker explains how she crafts essays by focusing on small, everyday, and weird things like a literary magpie.

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Jody Chan, Madness Belongs to the People / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/jody...

Jody Chan, Madness Belongs to the People

Don don ko doko doko. Don don ko doko doko! Taiko repertoire is often taught orally, relying on repetition. I learnt to drum through ku...

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📣 All the Waking Hours is here! 📣

Happy pub day to Erin Wunker and this artful and tender read about what it really takes to care for others. assemblypress.ca/shop/all-the...

“The only time I believe in true love is when I'm home alone belting “The Origin of Love” karaoke into the television remote...” Dani Spinosa’s WHISPERING GALLERY (@pressassembly.bsky.social) experiments with visual & prose poems to reimagine myth. Read from the book: alllitup.ca/two-poems-wh...

Dani Spinosa, Whispering Gallery: Poems / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/dani...

DO IT WRONG in the wild, this time at McNally Jackson, Rockefeller Center branch, NYC! Order your copy from your local bookstore or direct from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... (Thanks for the photo @slipsslips.bsky.social !)

A small selection if the books that informed DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...) ... each of these will blow your mind and send you down a rabbit hole of radical thinking. #poetry #teaching #poetrycommunity @pressassembly.bsky.social

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Listen in as The Lit Room on CKCU 93.1FM Ottawa interviews me about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/666... @ckcufm.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social #poetry #instapoetry

#34 Derek Beaulieu, Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century (Assembly Press, 2026) - The Lit Room - 2026-07-15

Derek Beaulieu, author of Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the 21st Century, and Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, joins Susan for readings and conversation. Sour...

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July's pick is NIGHTSHADE by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt—with a dash of magic realism.

Summer reading, but make it campfire-lit. #ALUBookClub is back with the Summer of Strange, where we're reading & talking about two hauntingly good books from @pressassembly.bsky.social and @renegadeartsent.bsky.social. Follow along with us here: alllitup.ca/summer-book-...

DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY in the wild! This time at the South Street Seaport location of McNally Jackson in NYC (and they have copies across the city!) ... Photos courtesy @slipsslips.bsky.social; thanks! @pressassembly.bsky.social

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Véronique Darwin / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Véronique Darwin

Véronique Darwin has published stories in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and PRISM International and was runner-up for the 2024 Austin Clar...

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Today's Turning Pages episode features a conversation with Veronique Darwin about Mom Camp ( @pressassembly.bsky.social ) Stream/DL at the link: umfm.com/programming/...

"Highly Acclaimed Poet Derek Beaulieu Passionately Explores His Craft, and Implores Other Scribes to DO IT WRONG": @openbookon.bsky.social interviews me about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET INTHE 21ST CENTURY: open-book.ca/News/Highly-... @pressassembly.bsky.social

Sister Corita Kent's "10 Rules for Students and Teachers (for John Cage)" was a massive inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink how you teach and how you learn: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social

Congratulations to our chair Dr Erin Wunker on her new book! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

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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.

📣 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

Canadian Poets Series #30 : Derek Beaulieu / @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/06/cana...

Canadian Poets Series #30 : Derek Beaulieu

Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism, as well as an endless list of chap...

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Joseph Planta & i discuss DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY, "One of the more fun, but also informative, instructive, even inspirational books of the season" thecommentary.ca/ontheline/24... DO IT WRONG, from @pressassembly.bsky.social, here: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation by @eileenflanagan.bsky.social, @sevenstories.bsky.social & Nightshade by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Melanie Dennis Unrau : How does a poem begin? / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/mela...

Melanie Dennis Unrau : How does a poem begin?

How does a poem begin?       In March 2026, seven versions of my poem “My Lullaby” from my book Goose (Assembly, 2025) were displayed...

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Phoebe Wang, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/phoe...

Phoebe Wang, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community

A rope on a boat is never a rope—it’s a line, sheet, or halyard. The boat doesn’t turn left or right but to port or starboard. If you’re wal...

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DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY seen in the wild at calgary's pages books on kensington ... order your copy from your local bookstore or direct from @pressassembly.bsky.social (Thanks for the photo @kristenbeaulieu.bsky.social )

The Orange Notebooks, is a compelling study of grief’s many colors..The channels Crossman traverses—nonhuman, mythic, philosophical, linguistic, & multi-colored—show grief as a plurality, as that which exists between. @necessaryfiction.com necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-... .

See you next week, Calgary!

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

Friends in Calgary: please join me to celebrate the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (new from @pressassembly.bsky.social ): Thursday May 28th at 7pm at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social : www.shelflifebooks.ca/events/48657... #poetry #doitwrong

THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman (@pressassembly.bsky.social). Reviewed by Court Ludwick. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...