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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
5:18 pm	http://blog.myspace.com/derekbeaulieu (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
4:24 pm	heavy in the middle here’s a noun you can touch § bipolar bears § put the homo in home-owner § so the bear says “how many is a Brazilian?” § a poetic foot up your poetic arse § i’ll keep your opinion to myself § an invincible army of jordans and the Whoopi of the zeroes § hey big guy, put the loose in Deleuze § you fuck your mother with that mouth? § so the frog says “that’s a barbiturate.” § what’s it gonna be: me or the TV? § that tree was totally asking for it § she only has book learning: a night with her was a thousand plateaus § the poetic equivalent of a big foam finger § i got squared § awesome-ist prime § put the stud in traditionally-framed housing § either they’re insecure about their masculinity, or they’re assholes § a bee in your bonnet or a fish in your pants § cluster-fuck § so George Bush looks up and says “it’s a nik-nak Patty Black, blah blah blah” § the state of the universe today § flex-off § don’t ring it like a bell, wring it like a neck. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
10:26 am	fork put a fork in it, this blog is done. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 5th, 2005
12:21 pm	tomorrow night! Please Join The Mercury Press and McNally-Robinson Booksellers as we celebrate the publication of: SHIFT & SWITCH: NEW CANADIAN POETRY edited by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie and Angela Rawlings (The Mercury Press, 2005) * TUESDAY DECEMBER 6th 7pm McNally-Robinson Booksellers 120 8th Ave SW Calgary, AB * Featuring readings by: derek beaulieu, Jason Christie, ryan fitzpatrick, Jay Gamble, Jill Hartman, Larissa Lai, Julia Williams * about SHIFT & SWITCH: Over 2 years in the making and featuring 41 avant-garde poets from across Canada in almost 200 pages, SHIFT & SWITCH challenges the reading and writing status quo, and questions what a poem may be. While contemporary poetry anthologies may emphasize traditional lyric poetry, SHIFT & SWITCH offers a unique alternative: radicality, experimentation and innovation with sound, visual elements, mathematics, surrealism and 'pataphysics. Crack open the spine to this highly anticipated collection, and discover Canada's next generation of innovative poets and their work! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
8:05 pm	damn dammit, the movie "white christmas" makes me cry, what a fuckin sap i am. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
10:49 am	amazing new CDs back from winnipeg, where i had a nice quiet trip, thanks to m for putting me up & putting up with me, and introduced me to some very lovely 'peg-people including and especially: becky, norah, mariiane, geza and more ... and on the last day of the trip found some wonderful stuff in the exchange for maddie for xmas, for me to wear and 3 amazing CDs: - AMERICAN PRIMITIVE Vol. !: re pre-war gospel - HUUN-HUUR-TU's "60 horses in my heard" (awesome tuvan throat-singing) - WILCO's new double-live CD "Kicking Television: Live in Chicago" and combined with a.raw's suggestion of Tagaq's SINAA i have been surrounded by amazing moosick (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
4:55 pm	Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: The Mercury Press, 416.531.4338 The Mercury Press is pleased to announce cross-country launches for Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry, an anthology featuring exciting new work by over forty experimental poets. Canada's cutting-edge authors have been widely acclaimed internationally as some of the most important innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Avant-garde poets challenge the reading and writing status quo, and question what a poem may be. Where conventional collections emphasize traditional and lyric poetry, Shift & Switch offers a unique and highly-anticipated alternative: radicality, innovation, and experimentation with sound, visual elements, mathematics, surrealism, and 'pataphysics! VANCOUVER: Saturday, November 26, 8pm, at The Helen Pitt Gallery (102-148 Alexander St.). Readings by Kedrick James, Reg Johanson, Glen Lowry, Angela Rawlings, Jordan Scott, and Natalie Simpson. Co-sponsored by the Kootenay School of Writing. TORONTO: Tuesday, November 29, 7pm, at Supermarket (on Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market). Readings by Gregory Betts, Rob Read, Sharon Harris, Mark Truscott, Trevor Speller, Hugh Thomas, Rachel Zolf, Suzanne Zelazo, and Geoffrey Hlibchuk. CALGARY: Tuesday, December 6, 7pm, at McNally Robinson (120 8th Ave. SW). Readings by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie, ryan fitzpatrick, Jay Gamble, Jill Hartman, Larissa Lai, and Julia Williams. Shift & Switch contributors have lived across the country from Victoria, British Columbia to Corner Brook, Newfoundland; the anthology functions not only as a gathering point of new writing, but also as a teaching tool in creative writing, in alternative writing forms, in Canadian literature and poetry courses. Most contributors are actively involved in their local writing and artistic communities as magazine editors, festival and reading series organizers, micropress publishers, and creative writing instructors and students. Co-editors derek beaulieu, Jason Christie, and Angela Rawlings are available for interview, as are contributors in many cities. To book an interview or to request a review copy, please contact The Mercury Press. CONTRIBUTORS: derek beaulieu. Gregory Betts. Michael deBeyer. Alice Burdick. Jason Christie. Chris Fickling. Jon Paul Fiorentino. ryan fitzpatrick. Jay Gamble. Sharon Harris. Jill Hartman. Jason Le Heup. Jamie Hilder. Geoffrey Hlibchuk. Matthew Hollett. Jesse Huisken. Kedrick James. Reg Johanson. Frances Kruk. Larissa Lai. Glen Lowry. Danielle Maveal. Jeremy McLeod. Max Middle. gustave morin. Janet Neigh. a.rawlings. Rob Read. Jordan Scott. Natalie Simpson. Trevor Speller. Nathalie Stephens. Andrea Strudensky. Hugh Thomas. Mark Truscott. douglas webster. Jonathon Wilcke. Julia Williams. rita wong. Suzanne Zelazo. Rachel Zolf. Shift & Switch has a very cool website; visit us online at http://www.themercurypress.ca/poetry/shiftswitch (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
10:50 am	In the face of the conservative politics rampant in Alberta, & the cultural embracing of rurality, geography, & place, there is a coterie of poets in Calgary whose work rejects these aspects in favour of what Sianne Ngai categorizes as a “poetics of disgust.”(98) These poets — as typified in the work of Jordan Scott & ryan fitzpatrick (& others loosely gathered around filling Station & dANDelion magazines) — push against the modernist tropes of ‘prairie poetry’ in favour of a more urban, linguistically disruptive form that can articulate the dissatisfaction with the politics being forwarded in historically ‘typical’ representations of Alberta. In Surviving the Paraphrase, Frank Davey argues against poetry used as “a tool employed not for its own intrinsic qualities but for the expression of ideas & visions” (2), opposing a poetic based on “messianic attempts to define a national” — & in this case, a regional — “identity” (3). ‘Prairie poetry,’ a form promoted as representative of Albertan writing, concentrates through lyrical humanism on the rural experience, a dependence on geography & a concentration on familial history as a means of concreting regional expression. Despite Robert Kroetsch’s claim that Canadian poetry did not have a Modernist period — that it slid directly from Victorianism to Post-Modernism (111) — prairie poetry’s concentration on the romanticism of settlement & exploration, & on presence & narrative belies an underlining linguistic support of a type of manifest destiny. To write of geography; “the lovely new land / where we now stand” (McKinnon 15) in Alberta, & especially in Calgary — is to endorse an ideological support for economic growth & expansion, & a reiteration of the dependence on oil & gas resources. Calgary — with an estimated population of 1.2 million — popularly represents itself though its rural ties (the white stetson, the Calgary Stampede, the Pengrowth Saddledome), by oil & gas revenue & by right-wing politics; all of which foreground Calgary as a traditional, conservative, basically rural environment. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
4:31 pm	as much as christian thinks otherwise as much as christian thinks otherwise, to me a blog is NOT a place to deposit all the mazing ideas i have for safe keeping (!). thats what i keep in my head (that and rocks). a blog is a bog with an extra "l". Current Mood: dorky Current Music: george harrison's "apple scruffs" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
6:03 pm	watch the leafs get whipped like an old mule hey folks; sat nov 12 5pm - leafs vs habs sat nov 12 8pm - avs vs flames ... here at chez derek&maddie - bring yr beer, bring yr good attitude: we can order wheel, we can drink til we get silly, we can cheer on the habs, we can watch the leafs get whipped like an old mule (you listening, ewart?), we can have a good time (as for the flames, well - who knows, will they actually play with vigour, or will they send out the old ladies instead?) ... be there or be rhomboid (2 Comments |Comment on this)
10:03 am	so much for a day off... so much for a day off, my "to do" list today is: - call NZW re: dandelion - call mcnally-robinson to book the _S&S_ launch - email a CFP to larissa - call steve at oil city press for fS#34 - call canadian heritage re: fS delinquent financial report - call ball re: _call & response_ - write said report - hang out w/ maddie (hope she gets here soon) - landry - vacuum the house - cut my own hair, shave for the 1st time this week (yuck) - conduct interview at TNG 630pm - fS meeting 8pm - buy new coffee maker, start up addiction in earnest - on another note: the 3 CDs i bought at megatunes yesterday rock mightily - sufjan stevens' "greetings from michigan: the great lake state", magnolia electric co.'s "hard to love a man" and the agnostic mountain gospel choir's "fighting and onions" - awesome indeed,. Current Music: agnostic mountain gospel choir (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
2:07 pm	what helps / what doesnt help hot & sour soup helps. listening to the new eels CD "blinking lights & other reveleations" (an amazing suggestion from 50) helps, wishing i was in bed does not help. watching cartoon tonight with maddie will help. thinking abt what to do for a 45 minute talk/reading in winnipeg does not help. Current Mood: sick (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:36 am	yowch! woke up with head in a vice like grip of headache, throt kindly sandpapered by some monstrous green ogre, eyes like two pissholes in the snow, and too much to do to be ill. Current Mood: sick Current Music: george harrison's "all things must pass" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
4:07 pm	grr grr - my ex-wife drives me CRAZY! Current Mood: enraged (Comment on this)
12:41 pm	relieving quiet relieving quiet after the CC grant storm yesterday here at work - nuthin doing so far but going thru the mail, feeding the fish and having lunch - although tonight we have a buncha interviews which means a buncha O/T (again), ah well ... and email is down at work, so i cant get any work related messages, but i can check my home acct which is a nice distraction. perhaps i will pay some bills and take care of some paperwork while im here, perhaps not. tonight - i t hink maybe i'll styart gathering up material for the winnipeg reading, thinking abt both reading and talking, tying together statements on poetics with poetry pieces, alternating between prose/poetics and poetry itself - give people more to chew on ... hm Current Mood: calm Current Music: blind willy mctell "worry hearted blues" (Comment on this)
9:28 am	finally found someone to go for a drink with last night - went with jonathan ball & we chatted abt our new martian press chapook entitled "call and response" which was nice, he's dfone a heck of a job of responding visually to my "pitt graphit" series, excited to see this as a finished book/envelope thing ... other than that a pretty quiet night actually, watched some of "se7en", played online, read some eliot and some stein, and went to bed. today - work, interviews for the new position at work, chillin out here i think ... this wek is soaring past like all the others... i find that im whispering to myself a lot when im at home - like im wary to disrupt the quiet. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
4:36 pm	c.c.rider, see what you ahve done? ha ha! the motherfucker is away! the canada council grant is out of my life! the new issue of fS is at the printer! somewhere, there is a pint with my name on it! ha! i rock mightily! Current Mood: triumphant! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 31st, 2005
11:31 am	ribbit! please join The Mercury Press and Pages Books for the launch of _frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho_ by derek beaulieu & Gary Barwin SATURDAY NOV 26, 2005 7:30pm Pages Books 1135 Kensington Road NW Calgary, Alberta featuring readings by both beaulieu & Barwin. *** about frogments from the frag pool: "Who says you can't teach an old frog new tricks, new licks? Here b and B take on B, with echoes of bp, in a way that honours Basho and that does yes "teach the mind again to leap." Their jubilant transribbitations don't inhibit, they inhabit - visual, bounding, unbound, unwound. Does the frog jump into water, or into the sound of water? Both of course, and when the ripples touch us, the joy and anticipation is catching: our hearts jump too." -- Erin Moure "Delightful surprises lurk within these pages as Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu examine the old pond, the frog, the splash, and the mind of Basho. From the microcosmic “old pond / universes rise & fall / a single splash” to the anthropomorphic “pond holding / its breath...” to the subjective “mind ponding” to the conceptual “splash as a hole in silence” – it’s all here. This book is a grand addition to the reverberation of Basho’s splash." -- Nelson Ball (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
8:25 pm	painting one's nails is remarkably difficult. that said, i think that metallic blue is my colour. Current Mood: flirty (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
6:21 pm	exhausted blorf - damn pooped from working on this grant, but i think a night off with maddie, some awesome spaghetti, chillin out will help tremendously .. .and if i knew how to add photos here i woud post a bunch from the PP launch and weekend, but i dont... sigh. stein's "blood on the dining room floor" is awesome and has such amazing lines as: "Every day and every day she had to see that everything came out from where it ws put away and that everything again was put away. That was their way. That had always been their way. Any way was that way. Anyway, she came that way to be that way. In that way she passed each day and each day passed away which wasa night too. Anybody knows that a night is not a day." damn - thats cool. damn - im pooped. theres a stack 8" high of submission for the next fS... blorf (redux) Current Mood: tired (1 Comment |Comment on this)