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Days like these

A partial view. Where poets meet.  knife | fork | book Pictured: DAVID ALEXANDER SPECER GORDAO OWAIN NICHOLSON DAVID BRADFORD EMMA BROWN SANDERS CHARLOTTE VAN RYN DAVID FLEMING CLAY EVEREST AMANDA EARL KISSEYFURR MAT LAPORTE ALL THOSE IN ATTENDANCE OF LAST NIGHT’S READING (thank you). Not pictured: JAMES G SOUTHCOTT ALLY FLEMING ALVIN WONG CARLETON […]

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WIN 2017 bpNichol Shortlist Bundle

The finalists for the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award are: DANA CLAXTON The Patient Storm above/ground press DORIS FISZER The Binders Tree Press STEVIE HOWELL Summer Desert Pets Press SONNET L’ABBE  Anima Canadensis Junction Books NANCI LEE Preparation FreeFall Literary Society of Calgary RENEE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees above/ground press Congrats to the poets & publishers. All six chapbooks are currently on display […]

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“A Handbook of Poetic Forms”

…a couch of friends’ faces smeared in a gleaming silver crown. CEDAR SIGO Royals (Wave Poetry, 2017)  Find it here.  knife | fork | book

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KFB FRIDAYS

k | f | b  THIS FRIDAY | NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS SHOWCASE DAVID ALEXANDER SPENCER GORDON OWAIN NICHOLSON FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish DAVID ALEXANDER is the author of the chapbooks Chicken Scratch from Puddles of Sky […]

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“It just makes me happy!”

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rasiqra Revulva (@rasiqra_revulva) Us, too! Thanks, Rasiqra. *kisses*  knife | fork | book JONATHAN GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) First Printing SOLD OUT. Available soon as an e-book at k | f | b  shop. JEFF KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY has legs. Find her, along with our […]

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We

First SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD (CALL OUT kfb, 2017) in our intimate, beautiful new reading room/salon space at The Dark Side Studio (created by artist/dancer AUDRA SIMMONS), reading CANISIA LUBRIN’s remarkable debut, VOODOO HYPOTHESIS (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) with the poet among poets in house. A gift of an evening. KFB UPCOMING: OCT 20 NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS SHOWCASE  SPENCER GORDON | OWAIN NICHOLSON | DAVID […]

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‘there is only bliss’

k | f | b recommends ANDRE BAGOO PITCH LAKE Peepal Tree Press, 2017. ANDRE BAGOO is a Trinidadian poet and writer. He is the author of Trick Vessels (Shearsman Books, 2012) and BURN (Shearsman Books, 2015) which was longlisted for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His poetry has appeared at journals such as Almost Island, Boston Review, Caribbean […]

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KFB Bestsellers / This Week at KFB

CA CONRAD While Standing in Line for Death (Wave, 2017) SAM SAX Madness (Penguin, 2017) DANEZ SMITH Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf, 2017) KAVEH AKBAR Calling a Wolf a Wolf Alice James, 2017) JERAMY DODDS Drakkar Noir (Coach House, 2017) SINA QUEYRAS My Ariel (Coach House, 2017) KATHRYN MOCKLER Some Theories, (ST Press, 2017) ELIANNA […]

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Among friends

A wonderfully rare opportunity. Poets JONATHAN GARFINKEL + JERAMY DODDS speak of friendship and writing. Last night. knife | fork | book

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This is Good Good

  Grand.  knife | fork | book A F MORITZ  A ZACHARY  EMILY IZSAK  GARY BARWIN HOA NGUYEN HUGH THOMAS  JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY  JAMES G SOUTHCOTT  JAMES LINDSAY  JIMMY MCINNES  JULIE CAMERON GRAY  KIRBY  MICHELLE BROWN  MOEZ SURANI  R KOLEWE  RASIQRA REVULVA  RYAN ECKES  SUE LANDERS  SUPARNA GHOSH  VINCENT COLISTRO  EVERYONE WHO CAME Photos: KIRBY […]