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Poet is in

POET PICKS : ROXANNA BENNETT ROXANNA BENNETT is the author of The Uncertainty Principle  (Tightrope Books, 2014). Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Slice Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, Existere, Arc, Vallum, CV2, Cosmonauts Avenue, Qwerty, carte blanche, and many other publications. Her KFB chapbook, Unseen Garden, comes out Fall 2017. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

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Second coming

  Doris returns. Second printing. Just in time for summer. WEDNESDAY JUNE 21 7PM JONATHAN GARFINKEL Bociany (Storks) KIRBY She’s Having a Doris Day   w/ DAVID BRADFORD MONTREAL LAUNCH  SUNDAY JUNE 25TH MONASTRIAKI  3PM

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A good day

  Welcome June.  knife | fork | book

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‘PO-e-try darlings!’

and we’re a bookshop.  knife | fork | book see also: ‘My blessed life.’

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Poodle love

Kirby's chapbook was on my desk. Now it is on the living-room floor and has teeth-marks. Poodle likes it as much as I do @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/2ySBccjzYa — Mary Smith (@dduperreault) May 26, 2017

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Marvelous

  I marvel at that stranger, so confident of body, of future. RUTH ROACH PIERSON from REALIGNMENT (Palimpsest Press) THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS RUTH ROACH PIERSON SUE CHENETTE JACLYN PIUDIK MAY 25TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish SUE CHENETTE, classical […]

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Pearl. Poet.

Love me some Pearl. I first heard poet PEARL PIRIE at a showcase of Canadian poets reading in Bryant Park (NYC) a few summers ago. A hellacious thunderstorm just stopped, wetness hanging everywhere, and there was Pearl, reading from her delightful ‘radish.’ I was completely taken with her love of the word, and wanted more. Hear @pesbo […]

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Two presses

  * it IS possible. you have value. you have permission * | ** raging against the dying of the light ** LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON @OnlyWhatICan BROOKLYN. Home of two remarkable small presses we carry here at the shop, UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and Lynne Desilva-Johnson’s THE OPERATING SYSTEM. Visits to both proved not only ‘inspired,’ but […]

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All poetry. All the time.

  Poetry-filled days. We’re OPEN.  knife | fork | book

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Group Huddle at TOPOS

A sparkling occasion from start to finish, host PARKER MENZIMER‘s GROUP HUDDLE Reading Series at TOPOS BOOKSTORE & CAFE this past Wednesday included an exquisitely hand-folded chapbook of the evening’s readers gifted to all in attendence. Such a pleasure to share the stage with poets DAVID BRADFORD and ANDREW DURBIN (who treated us with an excerpt […]