…there may be some turbulence ahead. And remember, place your own oxygen mask on first before attending to others.” 01/12 DANI COUTURE + CHAD CAMPBELL 01/13 SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD 01/19 CLAIRE CALDWELL + LAURA K McRAE + MICHAEL PRIOR 01/20 MOEZ SURANI ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация 01/26 CONCETTA PRINCIPE + RONNA BLOOM 02/02 AARON KREUTER + JIM NASON 02/03 wQr Reading Series with JEFF KIRBY 02/16 KATE SCHAPIRA + AARON […]
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“The heart allows us because we bring the words to its door… The heart is wise.” from SHANE NEILSON THE MANIFESTO OF FERVOURISM. A Ryga Chapbook, 2015. Okanagan College.
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If you pressed me to say why I loved him, I feel that it cannot be expressed, except by replying, because it was him and because it was me. Michel de Montaigne Mallemaroking with my oldest and dearest, Joseph. Babushkas. Hello 2017. knife | fork | book
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My favorite self-descriptor is still “reader.” And don’t you find “curator” is so overused these days that it almost demands air quotation marks. I see myself more as the old KoolAid pitcher who busts through the walls championing poets and poetry. (“O YEAH!!!”). knife fork book‘s JEFF KIRBY interviewed by LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON of The Operating […]
“I’m intoxicated by fire, light traveling through color, integrity of materials and making something where there was nothing… I love the overpowering silence involved.” LISSA WOLSAK (Vert Magazine) Wolsak in Of Beings Alone interjects into her poetry the disappointment of our present time, compelled as it is by capitalism’s bottom line and the “mean” […]
What rocked our world this year? @knifeforkbook did! Thank you to @itsakirby for being a true champion of #poetry! https://t.co/JjXDTsX1tm — BookThug (@bookthug) December 20, 2016 girl, all night” knife | fork | book
Why? (because you already know.) 3-Day Boxing Week Sale on all poetry books in stock, (some exceptions on signed/numbered editions). $10 OFF (every $50 purchase) TUES WEDS THURS 1-6PM knife | fork | book
@knifeforkbook @bookthug @LawandLit @RicksKensington @itsakirby – I’ll certainly be back soon. Thank you so much for giving poetry a home. — Jimmy McInnes (@JimmyMcInnes) November 18, 2016 Yes, there’s plenty of things to say goodbye to 2016. But, we have dozens, (if not hundreds), of reasons to be thankful. The real story? Since we’ve opened in […]
