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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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Where poets & readers meet

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

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“Where poets meet”

knife | fork | book  is thrilled to host California poets LAUREN LEVIN and ERIC SNEATHEN  reading from their debut collections, (The Braid and Snail Poems, respectively) fresh off the press from Krupskaya Books. On The Braid: “is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, […]

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“Anew and over again.”

“I prefer to not memorize my texts. Instead, I like my poems to be improvisatory like how I often cut every line and stanza of my poems and rearrange them in a different order. It still remains a wonderful poem to me.” STANFORD CHEUNG’s reading copy of Any Seam or Needlework (The Operating System, 2016) […]

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Hopper-esque

Nothing quite like a pretty afternoon Wave. Wave Poetry @ knife | fork | book Photo: KIRBY

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“Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…”

Thanks Dani.  knife | fork | book DANI COUTURE JANUARY 12th at kfb

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Slo-Po

“WHAT?!”* What if the work is just as closed as it looks? What if it just happens to be arranged in words? What if I feel dumb too? And it’s kinda fun? New KFB readers group, led by poet DAVID BRADFORD, tackles the ‘difficult stuff’ of poetry, slowly. “For all that work we’ve been unsure how to […]