{"product_id":"do-it-wrong-how-to-be-a-poet-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781998336296","title":"Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo It Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt'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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Beth Pickens's \u003ci\u003eMake Your Art No Matter What\u003c\/i\u003e and Austin Kleon's \u003ci\u003eSteal Like an Artist\u003c\/i\u003e, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Beaulieu\u003c\/b\u003e is the author\/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, \u003ci\u003eSilence: Lectures and Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Sweden's Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eSurface Tension\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Toronto's Coach House Books. Beaulieu has received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Albertan literature. He is the only graduate from the University of Calgary's Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts 'Celebrated Alumni Award' and the only graduate in creative writing to receive Roehampton University's Chancellor's Alumni Award. Beaulieu has served as Poet Laureate of both Calgary and Banff and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Assembly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160376504594,"sku":"9781998336296","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a7af81a-4115-4894-b6b5-e3ddb33740d0.jpg?v=1775056721","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/do-it-wrong-how-to-be-a-poet-in-the-twenty-first-century-9781998336296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}