2017 is the 20th anniversary of my initial forays into publishing under the housepress imprimatur (switched to no press in 2005) — and I would like to offer thanks and give back to the authors involved in these press over the years.

Most of those editions are long out of print, having moved in to personal collections and archives and are rare collectors items.

So i have an offer: if you were published by housepress or no press, and are interested,  scan your edition, create a PDF and email it to me  — and I will host downloadable PDFs as links on the presses’ sites.

This will return that work to circulation, allow for increased study and readership, and might be a fun way of recollecting how small pieces of paper, thread and the occasional staple, attempted to build a conversation.

Simon Fraser University’s Special Collections & Rare Books has just issued a finding aid for Fonds MsC 125 – Derek Beaulieu fonds.

SFU has collected my papers and archives since 2005 (5.74 m of textual records, including 52 posters, 93 optical disks, 81 prints, 7 paintings, 4 pictures, 1 collage, 34 floppy disks, 5 zip disks, 206 photographs, 10 daytimers, 10 sketchbooks, 65 notebooks, 8 handmade books, 1 audio cassette, 41 objects — and a full record of housepress, no press and my creative and publishing work to date).

Project Archivist Shyla Seller has indexed the holdings – a full searchable document which lists the entirety of these records, available for scholarly research.

Pentaract press has just published a new leaflet of my visual poetry, order a copy here …

Edition Taberna Kritika’s Hartmut Abendschein has not just published my konzeptuelle arbeiten, he has also tattooed one of my visual poems (excerpted from Kern) on his arm . . .

Arn McBay has animated the image i created for Reverse2017: The Copenhagen International Poetry Festival …

I’m thrilled to have artwork alongside Keegan Starlight, Amanda Fox & George Webber as part of “Keeping the Circle Strong Sharing our Culture: Celebrating National Aboriginal Day” (part of Aboriginal Awareness Week Calgary) — thank you Tamara Cardinal for the opportunity!

Had a lovely afternoon chatting with Pratim Sengupta and Alycia Wilson in the Mind, Matter & Media Lab yesterday — our wide-ranging conversations on ontology, classroom structures and grading, poetry, code and improvisation will be edited in to a YouTube video. While we were chatting, i constructed a large-scale visual poem, letting the conversations build upon the gestural creation . . .