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Get Skanky

BLAST FROM THE PASTRare DALE SMITH& (rarer still)SKANKY POSSUM PRESSramble into the shop. #FindItHere #poetry #toronto #bookshop #rare pic.twitter.com/Ane2pSg2GJ — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 22, 2016

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]

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Simply the best

We’re salivating. See you there.  knife | fork | book And drop by our place after, we’re open until 9PM tonight @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market.

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“presences”

“What is left out of these images is the idea of contact, and contact, of the most intimate sort, is what poetry can accomplish. Poems do not endure as objects but as presences. When you read anything worth remembering, you liberate a human voice; you release into the world again a companion spirit. I read […]

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“tremendous”

LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY Excerpts from ERIC SNEATHEN Snail Poems (p 35) and LAUREN LEVIN The Braid (p 110) Krupskaya Books, 2016. Signed copies available at the shop.

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The grand good company of readers

  A capacity crowd for JAN CONN, HOA NGUYEN, MADELEINE THIEN, and ZOE WHITTALL at Pivot Readings last night (The Steady, Toronto) with it’s splendid host JACOB McARTHUR MOONEY. This night deserves the title, “event” (and, thanks for the great shout-out Jake). TONIGHT at knife | fork | book Krupskaya Books poets LAUREN LEVIN and […]

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“Get your ‘slo-po’ on”

“which ain’t nothing like no letter” Getting my moten mystique ready for slo-po this Friday @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/yB2IZbLyj2 — David Bradford (@BartleButts) November 14, 2016 Reading Moten.  slo-po with David Bradford This Friday 7PM  knife | fork | book

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Where poets & readers meet

  “There will be days and days like these.”  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“Then we were quiet.”

Photo/story: JONATHAN GARFINKEL

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Curator on site

Originally posted on gallery1007:
I’ll be at our current gallery show, The Power of Portraiture, at Rick’s Cafe (281 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market) and it’s lovely poetry bookshop, knife | fork | book, from 2-3PM this Sunday, November 13th to meet and answer any questions you may have regarding the work on display/sale. Drop by…