Collecting found texts, lyric poetry, and experimental prose, Eric Sneathen’s Snail Poems is an elegy born of the general catastrophe of late capitalism and the specific tragedy of personal loss. Committed to smallness and fragility, Snail Poems nevertheless spirals out, queerly navigating collisions of ecological devastation, the politics of friendship, and popular culture. Eric Sneathen splits his time between Oakland and UC Santa Cruz, […]
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Illustrator: TALLULAH POMEROY
A sampling menu. knife | fork | book Opens Thursday October 6th with 2016 GOLDIE Award Winner & 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist MARNIE WOODROW @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open at 6:30PM
DAYTRIPPING. Made a jaunt to wonderful James Street (Hamilton) to nosh at Wass with Toronto Book Award Finalist and dear friend MARNIE WOODROW (at kfb Oct 6th), pick up copies of KILBY SMITH-McGREGOR’s Kids in Triage at Wolsak & Wynn (thanks Ashley) for her reading with ROXANNA BENNETT (Nov 3), join the well-read at Mulberry […]
Listed in the Top Ten Poetry Collections— Fall 2016 Publishers Weekly “Gather the firm clever thing / from the moment looking away” In these new poems, Nguyen seems especially immersed in her own process and in the essence of writing, engaged with the “root of the words/ not the fucking use/ made purposed and stupid.” Publishers […]
“…think of it as a turbulence machine.” —Mónica de la Torre “Anna Moschovakis is a great abstract poet in the sense that she explores how formal procedures and found vocabularies and grammatical structures delimit what we can express at a given historical moment. But what makes her an indispensable writer is how she is able—and through […]
k|f|b is thrilled to announce that poets ROXANNA BENNETT The Uncertainty Principle (Tightrope Books) & KILBY SMITH-McGREGOR Kids in Triage (Wolsak & Wynn) will grace our table Thursday, November 3rd. They’re plenty excited, too. It will be the first time these two actually meet following a brilliant two-part converstion they shared at The Puritan Magazine’s sister […]
2016 GOLDIE Award Winner and 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist Marnie Woodrow’s Heyday made my toes curl with glee in anticipation of the wild recklessness of young love. A love, a novel, so vibrant, so fresh it sparkles. Joyous. – k | f | b See/hear/meet MARNIE WOODROW read from her early collection, In the Spice […]
October 6th | MARNIE WOODROW October 13th | THE POWER OF PORTRAITURE October 20th December 15th | JIM NASON October 27th | HOA NGUYEN OPENING NIGHT: 10/6 – 2016 Toronto Book Award Finalist and Goldie Award winning novelist MARNIE WOODROW reads from her early collection of shorts, In the Spice House, set in […]
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