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View this post on Instagram A post shared by KFB (@knifeforkbook) All poetry. All day. All the time.  knife | fork | book

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DETROIT/WINDSOR in 36 HOURS

O-m-g, we had fun attending the DETROIT BOOKFEST (highlights: meeting LYZ LUIDENS of PRANKSTER PRESS & KAT FINCH), some fam time in Toledo, and reading with KATE HARGREAVES in Windsor at BIBLIOASIS. SPECIAL THANKS to Kate, Aimee from Palimpsest, poet Kim Fahner (so lovely to meet you both!), Tina & Casey at Biblioasis for their […]

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Gathering of friends, poets DANIEL REMEIN  KATHARINE JAGER  DALE SMITH  DAVID HADBAWNIK last night  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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KFB BESTSELLERS JUNE 2018

ANNE BOYER  A HANDBOOK OF DISSAPOINTED FATE (UGLY DUCKLING) on order ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU) on order KLARA DU PLESSIS  EKKE  (PALIMPSEST) in store JIM JOHNSTONE ed. THE NEXT WAVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF 21ST CENTURY CANADIAN POETRY (ANSTRUTHER) in store AMANDA JERNIGAN YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS (BIBLIOASIS) in store ERIC SCHMALTZ SURFACES (INVISIBLE) […]

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“We answer with our lives.”

  I first came across June Jordan’s WHO LOOK AT ME, a book she wrote for her son, Christopher, on display at Poet’s House (NYC), later acquiring this discarded library copy, written in 1969, sadly out of print. In describing how this book came to be, Miss Jordon wrote, “We do not see those we […]

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KFB SUBSCRIPTION SERIES JULY/AUG SELECTION

K | F | B  2018 SUBCRIPTION SERIES JULY/AUGUST SELECTION   Ardently edited by Anstruther Press’ JIM JOHNSTONE, I’d be hard-pressed to add to this essential list of the current, many who have graced us reading here at KFB. Highly recommended for every academic, school and public library worldwide. A new primer for poets and […]

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Catherine & Kathleen

From Ontario to Ireland (and back). KATHLEEN McCRACKEN & CATHERINE GRAHAM land, grace our space, last night.  knife | fork | book

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COOL POETRY NIGHTS | #KFBFRIDAYS | JULY

FRIDAY JULY 6TH CATHERINE & KATHLEEN CATHERINE GRAHAM | KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN CATHERINE GRAHAM’s sixth poetry collection The Celery Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books) is a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. KATHLEEN McCRACKEN is a Canadian poet and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry […]

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@CAConrad88 with an incredible small poem from Exquisite Corpse pic.twitter.com/CokPlrHHsu — Tom Snarsky (@TomSnarsky) June 30, 2018 CACONRAD NOV 16, 17 & 18 2018 knife | fork | book (details soon)