“The weight of the world is love.” Allen Ginsberg was born on this day in Newark, 1926. pic.twitter.com/C1rMajR8gH — City Lights Books (@CityLightsBooks) June 3, 2018 Still a gateway for many a young [and old] queer. knife | fork | book
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Relax. This specific emptiness (the desert’s) is not about you, it’s about nobody, but not about you specifically JARED STANLEY, EARS (Nightboat Books) Last night’s rendezvous with poetry, poets BEN MEYERSON HOLCOCENE and JARED STANLEY conjure, mesmerize. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
and NEXT FRIDAY knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please remove your shoes upon entrance.
I will never forget the miracle that anyone on earth takes time to read a word I write — anne boyer (@anne_boyer) May 31, 2018
Marlatt. Robertson. Hall. McFadden. Ball. New. Rare. knife | fork | book Yes, we welcome preloved poetry books/chapbooks/ephemera donations. We can also assist in weeding your collection and pick-up downtown GTA. Contact us at knifeforkbook@gmail.com
JUNE 1 JARED STANLEY | BEN MEYERSON JUNE 8 DANI COUTURE | DAVID JAMES BROCK | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH SAT JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY | A. LIGHT ZACHARY | CANISIA LUBRIN | MARCELA HUERTA JUNE 15 JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE SAT JUNE 16 MAWENZI HOUSE SHOWCASE ARCHNA SAHNI | GEETHA SUKUMARA SUN JUNE 17 KIRBY | OAKVILLE LITERARY CAFE | JOSHUA CREEK ART CENTRE GALLERY 4PM MON JUNE 18 KFB in […]
The love of poets. The poetry of A. F. Moritz. A grand night. knife | fork | book The poets: Jessica Joy Hiemstra Shannon Bramer Ben Gallagher James Lindsay Noah Wareness Khashayar Mohammadi Kate Sutherland Jacob McArthur Mooney Conor McDonnell Fan Wu David Seymour A. Light Zachary Torben Robertson Doyali Islam Ben Meyerson Paul Vermeersch A. F. Moritz Kirby Recording: DAVID SEYMOUR reads On Distinction by A. F. MORITZ which opened the […]
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I like to think of JARED STANLEY’s Ears as a friendly rejoinder to Frank O’Hara’s “Personism,” a brilliant collegial corrective that places the poem not between two persons but just simply between, as open to the gritty wind off the Nevada desert as to the spy novels and hot wings of the anthropocene. Indeed, for Stanley, the […]
There are many reasons we are celebrating dear friend of the shop A. F. MORITZ this Friday evening. First and foremost, his poetry and the recent launch of his beautifully compiled selected, THE SPARROW (Anansi Poetry). But there’s another reason it’s a “lovefest.” Al’s geniune enthusiasm, support, commitment, and love for his students and colleagues, fellow […]
