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Days like these

Poetry.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY  

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Today’s the day

Happy Birthday, great poet. Generous teacher. Beloved friend. Radiant beauty. Queen of hearts. Pictured: HOA NGUYEN 

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Special delivery

“Happiest of New Years and everything” Thank you Elisabeth (& Jonathan, too!)  Warmly received. knife | fork | book

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Present time

  “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” […]

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O little town of Kensington

TONIGHT! Festival of Lights Solstice Celebration Kensington Market We’re on the parade route (begins at dusk). Come. Celebrate. knife | fork | book  @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue OPEN TODAY 1-7   |  THURS & FRI 1-9  |  CHRISTMAS EVE 12-4  |  CLOSED CHRISTMAS Photos: KIRBY  Top: Orbital Arts 275 Augusta Ave | Centre: Montreal […]

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Across the street

Photo: KIRBY

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Yes

“I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?” ~ Langston Hughes pic.twitter.com/CVU5DaNbjN — Paul Holdengraber (@holdengraber) December 9, 2016 Our new mission statement, “to become good / And beautiful and kind.” knife | fork | book

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New residents

All the way from Japan.  knife | fork | book

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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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November rain

and our beautiful new reading chair. O so pretty.   knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY