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28 OCTOBER 6PM EASTERN THE FIDDLEHEAD 75TH ANNIVERSARY READINGS HOSTED BY KIRBY/KNIFE FORK BOOK

NOW ENTERING OUR 5TH YEAR

Announcing…

| ˈfəːtʌɪl | : KFB SUBSCRIPTION SERIES of New + Inventive Ideas

| ˈfəːtʌɪl | fertile

• producing many new and inventive ideas: her fertile imagination. [OED]

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KFB is intensely interested in the new, new forms, ephemera, shapes, concrete, visual, sound, lexicon, their roots/lineage.

With this quarterly subscription, we’ll package chapbooks, broadsides, essays on poetics, ephemera, vispo, concrete, collections that are certain to challenge and delight.

The first of which contains:

SADIQA DE MEIJER alfabet/alphabet (Palimpsest Press)

CATHERINE VIDLER oleander 7 (The Blasted Tree)

KYLE FLEMMER Purple Rain (The Blasted Tree)

DANI SPINOSA OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible)

+ new works coming from Ugly Duckling Presse, KFB, and various micro-presses local and abroad.

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KFB | ˈfəːtʌɪl | POETRY FESTIVAL OF NEW & INVENTIVE WORKS

AID a videopoem by GARY BARWIN from their collaborative KFB chapbook w/KATHRYN MOCKLER, ME THEN YOU THEN ME THEN

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KFB’s 2020 ORANGE COLLECTION HAMISH BALLANTYNE IMITATION CRAB MICHAEL CAVUTO COUNTRY POEMS JOHN NYMAN THE DEVIL ANDY VERBOOM DBL GARY BARWIN + KATHRYN MOCKLER ME THEN YOU THEN ME THEN CORY LAVENDER BALLAD OF BERNIE “BEAR” ROY NEIL SURKAN THEIR QUEER TENDERNESS
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KFB SELECTS MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION SERIES NOV | DEC | JAN 2020/21: KLARA DU PLESSIS HELL LIGHT FLESH (Palimpsest) KATE SUTHERLAND THE BONES ARE THERE (Book*hug) IAN WILLIAMS WORD PROBLEMS (Coach House) +++ NEW SUBSCRIBERS RECEIVE A FREE COPY of MICHAEL PRIOR’s BURNING PROVINCE (McClelland & Stewart) with their order! [while supplies last] SUBSCRIBE

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KFB’S PREMIERE READING SERIES UPCOMING 7 OCT 7PM WATCH YOUR HEAD LAUNCH Edited by KATHRYN MOCKLER (COACH HOUSE BOOKS) 13 OCT 7PM SACHIKO MURAKAMI + JESSICA MOORE 17 OCTOBER SATURDAY 2PM EASTERN EVAN JONES + KIRBY read CAVAFY from JONES’ new translations THE BARBARIANS ARRIVE TODAY (Carcanet Press) 22 OCTOBER 8PM EASTERN KATE SUTHERLAND THE BONES ARE THERE (Book*hug) LAUNCH w/JESSIE JONES THE FOOL (icehouse poetry) + AARON KREUTER SHIFTING BASELINE SYNDROME (Insomniac Press) 28 OCTOBER 6PM EASTERN THE FIDDLEHEAD 75TH ANNIVERSARY READINGS  02 NOVEMBER 7PM DOMINIK PARISIEN SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE STRANGERS (McGill Queens UP) LAUNCH w/KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI + ERIN SOROS

The book is the meal. We serve poetry.