Overview

A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry Do It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity. It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird. It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the ""business as usual"" educational models into the new, the strange, and the ""wrong."" And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities. For readers of Beth Pickens's Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.

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Praise for Do It Wrong ""Derek Beaulieu shares his generous, frank, and occasionally contentious insights into the world of poetry, many of which will also be enlightening—and actionable—for artists, students, and teachers of all kinds.""—Matt Madden, author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style Praise for Derek Beaulieu’s previous work “This is quite simply an enchanting book—a book producing new pleasures with each turn of the page.”—Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder and Edge of Irony “A living demonstration that poetry is about unleashing the potential of combinatoric protocols to drive the performative art of letters on a page.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Inventing the Alphabet “Beaulieu traverses the junk of the past and present, allowing us the opportunity to reflect on the possible ways that we can read and write.”—Canadian Literature

Praise for Derek Beaulieu’s previous work “This is quite simply an enchanting book—a book producing new pleasures with each turn of the page.”—Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder and Edge of Irony “A living demonstration that poetry is about unleashing the potential of combinatoric protocols to drive the performative art of letters on a page.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Inventing the Alphabet “Beaulieu traverses the junk of the past and present, allowing us the opportunity to reflect on the possible ways that we can read and write.”—Canadian Literature

Author Information

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden's Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published by Toronto's Coach House Books. Beaulieu has received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Albertan literature. He is the only graduate from the University of Calgary's Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts 'Celebrated Alumni Award' and the only graduate in creative writing to receive Roehampton University's Chancellor's Alumni Award. Beaulieu has served as Poet Laureate of both Calgary and Banff and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

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