Some Lines of Poetry

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of conceptual prose, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published by Coach House Books. Beaulieu has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for this dedication to Albertan literature and is the only graduate from the University of Calgary’s Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts ‘Celebrated Alumni Award.’ Beaulieu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University, has served as Poet Laureate of both Calgary and Banff, and the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Gregory Betts is the author of ten books of poetry, two monographs on the Canadian avant-garde (including Finding Nothing: The Vangardes 1959-1975) and editor of ten collections of, or on, Canadian experimental writing. He is a professor at Brock University and curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive. His most recent book is The Fabuous Op, a collection of poetry co-written with Gary Barwin, was published by Ireland’s Beir Bua Press.