Derek Beaulieu
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Derek Alexander Beaulieu (born 1973) is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist.
Beaulieu studied contemporary Canadian poetics at the University of Calgary. His work has appeared internationally in small press publications, magazines, and in visual art galleries. He has lectured on small press politics, arts funding and literary community in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Iceland.
He works extensively around issues of community and poetics, and along those lines has edited (or co-edited) the magazines filling Station (1998-2001, 2004-present), dANDelion (2001-2004), and endNote (2000-2001).
He founded housepress in 1997 from which he published small editions of poetry, prose and critical work until 2004. The housepress fonds are now located at Simon Fraser University.
In 2005 he co-edited Shift & Switch: new Canadian poetry with angela rawlings and Jason Christie, a controversial anthology of radical new poetry which has been reviewed internationally.
Beaulieu lives in Calgary, Alberta.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- With Wax. Toronto: Coach House, 2003 ISBN 1-55245-118-6
- Frogments from the Fragpool: Haiku after Basho. Toronto: Mercury, 2005. ISBN 1-55128-112-0 (with Gary Barwin)
- Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry. Toronto: Mercury, 2005. ISBN 1-55128-116-3 (edited with angela rawlings and Jason Christie).
- fractal economies. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2006. ISBN 0-88922-539-7
