My Favourite Ones are the Mad Ones is an exhibition put on by Derek Beaulleu’s Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL214 Creative Writing class. This class has challenged the student’s methods of writings by introducing a typewriter to their assemble of writing and art making tools. The final products of this class will be displayed in ACAD room 395, as a visual arts show on April 10th, 2014 from 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
you are invited to the Calgary launch of Ground Rules: above/ground press: the best of the second decade, 2003-2013
with readings by three Calgary contributors:
derek beaulieu
Natalie Simpson
+ Julia Williams
Edited by rob mclennan, with an introduction by Gil McElroy, Ground Rules features writing from the second decade of one of the most active micro publishers in Canada, selected from a series of hundreds of publications lovingly edited, produced and distributed by editor/publisher rob mclennan. A follow-up to Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), Ground Rules includes a wide range of work by Artie Gold, Mark Cochrane, Suzanne Zelazo, derek beaulieu, Stephanie Bolster, Amanda Earl, Nathanaël, Lisa Samuels, Rachel Zolf, Sharon Harris, D. G. Jones, Julia Williams, Eric Folsom, Gregory Betts, Natalie Simpson, Aaron Tucker, Monty Reid, William Hawkins, Emily Carr, Cameron Anstee, Helen Hajnoczky, Marilyn Irwin, Stephen Brockwell, Robert Kroetsch and rob mclennan.
lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan
7:30pm, Thursday, May 8, 2014
Shelf Life Books
1302 4 St SW, Calgary, AB
This necessary volume offers a comprehensive selection of Riddell’s diverse array of meta-media writing strategies. Emerson and beaulieu’s selection spans from his better-known lipogrammatic comic “Pope Leo: El Elope” (illustrated by bpNichol) that recounts the tragic murder of Pope Leo using only four letters (P, O, E, L) to the dirty, concretistic “a deux,” a work composed of typewritten text that is disrupted by smears, hand drawn lines, and inkblots. Much of the work presented here explores Riddell’s interest in the relationship between machines and language–he creatively intervenes with the functions of the typewriter, photocopier, and paper shredder, among other technologies. Riddell’s work poses a special challenge to editors because much of it is unreproducible–much of it relies on aleatoric operations and at other times precise and irreproducible gestures. Considering both editors’ outstanding backgrounds exploring radical, media-related literature, there may be no one better to trust with this work.
Speechless magazine – the journal of concrete poetry i edited and published from 2009 (and is now readily available on UBUweb as downloadable PDFs) was recently re-issued in a pirated edition by Kristen Mueller as poet-in-residence at the LUMA foundation in Zurich. I’m thrilled to hear that my work is being pirated and bootlegged, what could be cooler than that?
A 32″ x 104″ edition of My Prose of the Trans-Canada is on exhibit as part of SEE THE SOUND, a three day exhibition of visual poetry at the Verses Festival of Words, Vancouver.
What does poetry look like? Going beyond sounds in the air or words on the page, three poets and visual artists reimagine poetry in the visual realm. This four-day exhibit brings new perspectives on how letters and words combine in our perception to create a poetic impression.
Works by visual artists and poets include:
Derek Beaulieu’s epic “Prose of the Trans-Canada”
Kevin McPherson’s debut of a new piece of visual poetry
Corrina Keeling’s improvised visuals created during Verses events
Astorino’s, 1739 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC
T E X T ual A R T i
vity: a month-long display of visual poetry
Official Opening / Reception / poetry reading / open mike
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 7:30 p.m.
The Human Bean,King Street, downtown Cobourg, ON.
Featuring visual poetry by Angela Rawlings, Derek Beaulieu, Camille Martin, Bill Bissett, Helen Hajnoczky, Robert Zend, Lindsay Cahill, Mark Laliberte, Jenny Sampirisi, Eric Schmaltz, Angela Szczepaniak, Gregory Betts & Neil Hennessy, Pearl Pirie, Eric Winter, Jessica Smith, Ted Amsden, Sharon Harris, Cliff Bell-Smith, Mary McKenzie, Wally Keeler, Katriona Dean, Gary Barwin, Judith Copithorne, michael j. casteels,
Alixandra Bamford, Em Lawrence and Dan Waber
Maclean’s 2014 Canadian Universities Guidebook selects my ENGL214 class as one of the “cool courses” happening at ACAD this year …
I was recently invited to participate in a photo-shoot for Calgary Arts Development’s Living a Creative Life: An Arts Development Strategy for Calgary (photograph courtesy Jason Stang)
SAIT’s student newspaper The Weal takes an interest in my teaching at ACAD…
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