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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

Assembly Press@pressassembly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 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 · 3mo 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-...

First time seeing DO IT WRONG in the wild -- at kelowna's mosaic books (Thanks folks!) I bet your local bookstore could order a copy from @pressassembly.bsky.social ... but if you see it on shelves, please send me a photo!

📣 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

For #ShortStoryMonth, short story writer @laurairock.bsky.social recommends six standout collections from @anvilpress.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social, @guernicaeditions.bsky.social, @greatplainspress.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social & @llpmtl.bsky.social alllitup.ca/afterword-6-...

"At the bottom of Portsea's Cheviot Bay in Victoria is a sunken gravestone for Harold Holt, the missing, presumed drowned former Prime Minister of Australia." -- from Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, Dani Netherclift. @pressassembly.bsky.social #amreading

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!

"Beaulieu published this book at the exact time I needed someone to give me permission" -- thank you Jerry Iwanus at The Prairie Maritimer for your review of DO IT WRONG: theprairiemaritimer.com/poetry/ @pressassembly.bsky.social

The brilliant @jonathangibbs.bsky.social ( whose thoughts and writing I much admire) reviewing my novel #theorangenotebooks (published by @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @pressassembly.bsky.social ) and comparing me/it to early Deborah Levy. All thanks for your words.

Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a novel, this reminded me at times of early Deborah Levy – the nervy glamour of a mind working at one-and-a-half speed, making superfluous connections, glitching and riffing off its own anxieties. She's in hell, but she's hellbent on finding her way out.

flying to Victoria (via Toronto) and really enjoying what I’ve read so far of Phoebe Wang’s Relative to Wind // @pressassembly.bsky.social

A rare Vancouver reading from Phoebe Wang! Phoebe will be joining Joanne Leow in launching their @pressassembly.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social books at Iron Dog Books. April 30th, 6:30 PM, details here: irondogbooks.com/events/48383...