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Profile: Derek Beaulieu
 Profile: Author of five books of poetry (most recently the visual poem suite silence), three volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection How to Write which was short-listed for Calgary’s W.O. Mitchell Award) and over 150 chapbooks, derek beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging contemporary Canadian writing. His first volume of criticism, Seen of the Crime, was published Fall 2011 by Snare Books. He can be found online at www.derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com. beaulieu teaches Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Theory and Contemporary Canadian Literature at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and the Alberta College of Art + Design. He was a short-listed nominee for the position of Calgary’s 1st Poet Laureate.  In 2011 beaulieu was named by Broken Pencil Magazine as one of their "Favourite indie artists of the last 15 years” and in 2007 was the Alberta Magazine Publishers’ Association’s Volunteer of the Year. He has also been nominated as part of The Calgary Herald / Calgary Public Library 10 Calgary Mavericks (2010), Avenue Magazine’s Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 (2009) and the Alberta Magazine Publishers’ Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2009). He is a short-listed nominee for the position of Calgary’s first poet laureate. beaulieu is the youngest writer in Canada to have his papers collected in extensio by Simon Fraser University’s Contemporary Literature Collection. Publisher of the acclaimed smallpresses housepress (1997-2004) and no press (2005-present), and former editor of filling Station, dANDelion, endNote, Speechless and The Minute Review, beaulieu has spoken and written on poetics nationally and internationally. beaulieu is the Visual / Concrete Poetry Editor for Ubuweb.  |
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