Do It Wrong

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Do It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.
It’s a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.
It’s a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the “business as usual” educational models into the new, the strange,and the “wrong.”
And it’s a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.

AUTHOR

Derek Beaulieu

Poet, editor, critic and publisher derek beaulieu is the current poet laureate of Calgary. rob mclennan is an Ottawa-based poet, editor, publisher and critic, and co-publisher of Chaudiere Books.

Reviews

Praise for Derek Beaulieus previous work
This is quite simply an enchanting book a book producing new pleasures with each turn of the pageMarjorie Perloff author ofWittgensteins LadderandEdge of Irony
A living demonstration that poetry is about unleashing the potential of combinatoric protocols to drive the performative art of letterson a pageJohanna Drucker author ofInventing the Alphabet
Beaulieu traverses the junk of the past and present allowing us the opportunity to reflect on the possible ways that we can read and writeCanadian Literature