Launch pad
Author: Kirby
Poet. Owner/publisher knife | fork | book
Queer space
touching is not actually touching
(fans push the hot air around us)
touching is the act of atoms
resisting each other
touching
is resistance
TANIS FRANCE, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018)
wQr {What Queer Reading, KFB new imprint] Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN DEDORA, TANIS FRANCO, LENA SUKSI, hosted by FAN WU.
Queerly yours. knife | fork | book
Photos: KIRBY
Egg fresh
In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars. – Jeff Latosik
DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood Editions) TORONTO LAUNCH SATURDAY APRIL 21 3PM
knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery)
Wingman
Beauty is
the evening slowness…
KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN (Zed Press, 2018)
Beauty is this Saturday Night. knife | fork | book
KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI is an Iranian-born writer/translator based in Toronto, currently an aditor at Inspiritus Press.
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Hatched
k | f | b THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY
wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU
FRIDAY APRIL 20TH 7PM (SHARP)
Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless).
DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM
ZED PRESS 2018 SPRING TORONTO LAUNCH KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN | HANAN HAZIME AORTA SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 7PM (SHARP)
Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless).
knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery)
Alice & me
Photos: TORBEN ROBERTSON
You’re here
This afternoon. Poets. Friends. Alice Burdick. Kirby. Laughter. Joy. knife | fork | book
Photos: KIRBY
“It’s Friday night.”
Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend…
— brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018
“I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,”
This opening line will remain with me forever (that, and the swan). Thanks for making it. @itsakirby
— knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) April 14, 2018
