Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of more than 25 collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent works include Silence: Lectures and Writings and the poetry collection Surface Tension. Beaulieu is the director of literary arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He has served as poet laureate of both Calgary and Banff, and received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Alberta literature. Beaulieu has been publisher of small presses housepress and no press, and is the former editor offilling Station and a number of other literary journals.
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Excerpted from: Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century by Derek Beaulieu. Copyright 2026 © Derek Beaulieu. Published by Assembly Press. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century publishes on April 7.
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