Derek Beaulieu
Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Starter Packs
Created by Derek Beaulieu (3)
Canadian presses!
In light of the weird tariff politics going down, here's a list of amazing presses in Canada which you should check out -- all of which are publishing great poetry and prose!
Fabulous poets doing mindbending work
Each of these poets are making work which pushes our understanding of composition, diction, stylistics, publishing, and community ... they each suggest new ways if looking at poetry and are worth a follow!
Great small presses doing fabulous work
This starter pack introduces ya'll to some fabulous presses around the world, all publishing experimental and radical poetry and prose...
@emotrophywife.bsky.social
Simply excited to have thoughts. Writing in The Cut, Vogue, Bookforum, Pitchfork, Frieze, and elsewhere. Debut novel forthcoming from Saga Press. gracebyron.substack.com
@punctumbooks.bsky.social
punctum is a queer-led and scholar-led #OpenAccess press dedicated to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library and funded by college and university libraries across the globe.
@jpb.bsky.social
Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // collagist // inveterate notetaker // gracefully aging zinester // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
@ludoclast.bsky.social
Writer. Team Lead Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. 🍕 he/him
@tylermpoetry.bsky.social
City dweller who loves the desert. Recent books: The Bomb Cloud (@unboundedition.bsky.social #memoir) and Poetry Studio (@uakronpress.bsky.social #poetry #craft). 📚☀️Brooklyn.
@mrprudence.bsky.social
Art, writing, walking, typing. . . ✩ˎˊ˗ https://linktr.ee/paulprudence
@nrvscrcts.bsky.social
Academic librarian, PhD in philosophy. Critical librarianship, phenomenology, synths, tabletop & video games, sci-fi. Settler on Treaty 7 land. He/him. All opinions my own. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
@coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
@kyleflemmer.com
writer, publisher, digital media artist www.kyleflemmer.com OBJKT: objkt.com/profile/kflemmer Supergiants coming 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
@eleekg.bsky.social
bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
@annaveprinska.bsky.social
Poet | Asst Professor, UCalgary | Collection of poems, Bonememory, April 2025 | Author: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Spirit-clenched; Stone Blossom; Sew with Butterflies Bonememory: https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/
@monicakidd.bsky.social
Author of THE CRANE (Breakwater, 2025) and 7 other books || Journalist || MD MSc MFA || associate editor at CMAJ || at work on a nonfiction book about coastal erosion globally || monicakidd.ca || represented by Aevitas
@kitdobson.bsky.social
Author of We Are Already Ghosts (2024), Field Notes on Listening (2022), and more. Progressive Albertan. UCalgary Prof, Dept of English.
@mongibeddu.bsky.social
Poet, editor, scholar in Maine. Now available: Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (https://nightboat.org/book/nice/). Free 🇵🇸; end the genocide now!
@sachaarcher.bsky.social
@sarahberms.bsky.social
author of don't call it a cult podcast producer sarah.berms@gmail.com
@taras-grescoe.com
Author of Straphanger | Words NY Times Nat Geo Smithsonian WSJ | Latest book Lost Supper | Talks: http://taras-grescoe.com/contact https://www.highspeed.blog (Transit, trains, bikes) https://linktr.ee/tarasgrescoe Agent: www.skagency.com
@ottawasmallpress.bsky.social
twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa, lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
@amyjleblanc.bsky.social
PhD candidate 🦊 “I used to live here” available for pre-order 📝 Managing Editor for Canthius 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
@genrepunkmag.bsky.social
Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻 Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social). Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
@docmofo.bsky.social
Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
@sinaqueyras.bsky.social
Human. Writer. Curator. Queer. MamaSir. I make space for poetry. I curate Writers Read Concordia.
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
@originobscure.bsky.social
Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social
@cmakris.bsky.social
poet & writer “one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
@afilreis.bsky.social
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Dir of the Kelly Writers House, Dir of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, host of PoemTalk, lead convener of ModPo—all at the Univ of Pennsylvania.
@yokoono.bsky.social
Official Yoko Ono account, administered by Yoko’s office, Studio One. IMAGINE PEACE: Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace. ䷊⊙🏳️
@smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
, a collective of Ottawa small and micro press literary publishers : https://smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/
@silliman.bsky.social
Poet in Springfield, PA. Lecturer @ U of Pennsylvania, Author of 50+ books My blog had 5 million visits before it was unilaterally deleted by Gurgle (a copy can be found at the Electronic Poetry Center) rsillima@yahoo.com
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@bpnichol.bsky.social
The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive is the official home of the Estate of bpNichol, a digital repository of thousands of pages of material. Explore bp's delightful and unique world of visual poetry, sound poetry, experimental writing, and so much more.
@itsakirby.bsky.social
SHE (April 2024, KFB) kirbyshe.com LAST LICKS #anstrutherpress POETRY IS QUEER @palimpsestpress.bsky.social THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF #PermanentSleep Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
@l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social
The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
@corbelstonepress.bsky.social
Small press of Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. Words, art & music about landscape and the other-than-human world. corbelstonepress.com
@uniformbooks.bsky.social
Imprint for visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies. Edited and published by Colin Sackett. colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
@aijiang.bsky.social
🇨🇳🇨🇦 || she/her || Changle -> Toronto ||Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner || Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee || Odyssey ‘23 || BA,MSc || rep: UTA & The Tobias Literary Agency || A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books ‘25) https://aijiang.carrd.co/
@dapowell.bsky.social
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
@aoifemacnamara.bsky.social
Bog fancier, parent, professor & Dean of Arts @UCalgary, Treaty 7 Territory. sí/í. Account and all postings are personal, not professional.