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KIRBY PIVOT FEB 7TH

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Atremble

your inane orators and their rhetoric / that flows with the blood of others / beyond our frigid roads and rivers / your bedraggled buffoons who speak truth / Beings the colours of butterflies / slurping up the disturbing sweat / and elbow grease of my alchemy / extracting the quintessence of everything / Yes, […]

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TODAY

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That girl

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLQY6QFm0B/ Brings us hope, love & laughter. CONGRATS on your pop-up poetry reading at Sunset Beach!  knife | fork | book PICTURED: Poet ELIANNA LEV reads from SEX MADE ME (knife | fork | book, 2017) Sunset Beach, Vancouver, yesterday afternoon.

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Because we’re here

  because the one who holds the pen, even if it’s too dark to / see the page and even if the ink is his own blood, is free* There’s a story here, an ongoing one (thanks to you). Here’s but an excerpt: Picture this, coldest winter on record, flu bug making the rounds, and we […]

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Elianna at the beach

Poet ELIANNA LEV reads from SEX MADE ME (knife | fork | book, 2017) and new work in a live pop-up performance THIS SATURDAY 3PM at SUNSET BEACH, VANCOUVER

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A whirlwind

“Kirby, would you come in January?”* Okay, she fell in love with this place. A warm, welcoming evening at TREE READING SERIES (Ottawa) with PEARL PIRIE hosting a full house at BLACK SQUIRREL BOOKS & ESPRESSO BAR (a haven) with featured poets MARGO LAPIERRE  (Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes, Guernica Editions, 2017) & KIRBY (She’s Having a […]

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Surrealist extravaganza

SHANNON MAGUIRE DAVID BATEMAN ROBERT PRIEST BEATRIZ HAUSNER SHERI-D WILSON hold court to a full house of hardy poets, “the coldest January 5th on record.” Where were the poets? Keeping the hearth.  knife | fork | book KFB UPCOMING: JAN 9 KFB | KIRBY ‘DORIS’ IN OTTAWA |TREE READING SERIES | MARGO LAPIERRE JAN 12  SLO-PO w/ DAVID BRADFORD (reading […]

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JANUARY MO PO

Such fun.  knife | fork | book +++ 12 JAN SLO-PO w/ DAVID BRADFORD 7:30PM | 25 JAN KFB at CROSSROADS LITERARY FESTIVAL YORK U | 26 JAN GARRY THOMAS MORSE | 2 FEB ADAM KATZ & DALE SMITH BOOK LAUNCH | UPCOMING : CELINA SU | BIG AL’S LOVEFEST | MORE

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Rare

Remarkable. SINA QUEYRAS holds a generous space last night reading from her highly acclaimed, My Ariel (Coach House Books, 2017) closing out our year, ushering in a hopeful new. To all who came on such a wintry night, you are why we’re here. Blessings. See you in the new year. Special thanks to Jess and […]