📣Do It Wrong is here! 📣
Happy pub day to @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet in the Twenty-First Century, a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry!
Available now from your fav local bookstore or library
Derek Beaulieu's new collection publishes on April 7. Read an excerpt here: https://bit.ly/4v79agQ
Happy Opening Day* to all who celebrate! ⚾️🏟️🎉
Good planning is always having a copy of Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social within reach in case of a rain delay.
Grab a copy from your favourite bookseller!
Send the box-packer to The Hague
See y'all at Derek's Toronto launch in a couple weeks!
TORONTO!: Come by FLYING BOOKS (784 College) on APRIL 10th at 6:30pm for the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY! flyingbooks.ca/events/48336...
(check out @pressassembly.bsky.social & the book: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)
Will jump into the discourse to say that, while I am an absolute nut for old baseball -- 19th century, deadball, '20s, polyester era, all of it -- if every baseball team in 2026 carried itself the way Team USA has comported itself during this WBC, I wouldn't watch baseball.
📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin
Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp
📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry.
Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚
assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel!
“Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews
assemblypress.ca/shop/vessel
I really love this one, it's so so good.
2026 is the 10th anniversary of my 1st book of baseball essays, The Utility of Boredom. I'm writing a preface to an anniversary edition that @invisibooks.bsky.social will publish in '26 and I’m struck by some parallels between this moment and 2015. 🧵1/
Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit
Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations.
More details on our website!
I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
a box that says New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.
three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.
three of these boxes on a step! they say New! Amazon sucks. Stuff you don’t need…fast! 24,000,000 giant size pkgs.
one of these boxes in front of a door
this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying
SAVE THE DATE!
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time.
www.transitbooks.org/donate
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
Yes, this. My book is called Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. It's about how a game some of us love for fun is also a job. And about a doctor who was really good at striking out Babe Ruth.
Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.
assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
Hub Pruett, LHP, St. Louis Browns, 1922 (Photo by Charles M. Conlon). Pruett's story fascinated me, and pursuing it led me to write Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (April 15, @pressassembly.bsky.social).
A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.
The founding of Assembly Press, her ongoing love for her debut collection, and how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication - my conversation with author and publisher @nashls.bsky.social
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
I taught in CW&P as a PT instructor for years. My time there wasn't perfect (read: exploitation of sessionals), I'm saddened that management is cutting the program. The students were great, and the faculty I met were more than welcoming. CW&P has great potential: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
i read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and it’s incredibly powerful & should be read by everyone. In the interest of making the words of @omarelakkad available to as many people as possible, we’re taking pre-orders at 40% off at kingsbookstore.ca/oneday
Is this a one-sentence outline for a Peter Counter book or
Rob should win the Governor General's Award for Book Science for so clearly articulating the correct owned-to-read ratio.
We've made a few starterpacks for others who are interested in indie bookstores and publishers! Find them both on our page 💙📚
I say this all the time.
