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Salve

  Thursday Night Poets CONCETTA PRINCIPE and RONNA BLOOM hold a tender space last night. knife | fork | book UPCOMING:  FEB 2 AARON KREUTER  JIM NASON  FEB 9 INSPIRITUS PRESS APPARATUS BOOK LAUNCH  FEB 10 SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD  FEB 16  KATE SCHAPIRA  AARON BOOTHBY  FEB 23  CLAIRE MARIE STANCEK  MOUTHS BOOK LAUNCH  MARCH 2 GWEN BENAWAY  EMMA HEALEY  […]

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Get personal

In the sense that we are born into circumstances and live out those circumstances without any foreknowledge, we unconsciously absorb responsibility for the historical events that led to the contemporary circumstances. The personal is imbricated by the political.”  CONCETTA PRINCIPE on Hiroshima: A Love War Story THURSDAY NIGHT POETS CONCETTA PRINCIPE Hiroshima: A Love War […]

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While Donald and Melania danced

“There’s something happening here…”  knife | fork | book   Photos: KIRBY

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“my new happy place!”*

Last night was nothing shy of poetic bliss. Laura, Claire, Michael—the poets and readers in attendence—thanks for making it so. knife | fork | book UPCOMING: TONIGHT MOEZ SURANI. 01/26 CONCETTA PRINCIPE RONNA BLOOM. 02/02 AARON KREUTER JIM NASON.  Pictured: poets Laura Kathryn McRae, Claire Caldwell, and Michael Prior Photos: KIRBY *Shane Neilson

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“This one’s from the heart”

@itsakirby @cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 "o, baby, this one's from the heart…"https://t.co/j6TCHmY9uG#tonight #ThursNightPoets — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 19, 2017

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Meanwhile, just up the street

It’s a big week.  knife | fork | book

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“between a protest and prayer”

The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” JAMES BALDWIN The Creative Process On Friday night, while the […]

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Everyday is like

  Sunday. In January. And it feels like it, beneath her mother’s quilt. Does she even want to? (no, it’s Sunday… and she does) 506 High Park to Augusta and the shop greeted by C.J., Aaron, and Takatsu and their glorious new arrival, APPARATUS, an anthology of emerging writers on their own imprint, Inspiritus Press. And it’s a […]

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This week’s menu

THURSDAY NIGHT POETS  JANUARY 19TH CLAIRE CALDWELL Invasive Species LAURA K. McRAE Distributaries MICHAEL PRIOR Model Disciple Doors 6:30PM  Poetry 7-ish Claire Caldwell is a poet and editor living in Toronto. Her first book is Invasive Species, part of the Buckrider Books imprint at Wolsak and Wynn. Claire was the 2013 winner of the Malahat […]

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Read aloud

Morning light. June dawns. Moonbeam. Bumblebee. Wren. Tulip. After reading @MoezSurani OPERATIONS, I simply knew I wanted to have it read aloud, in its entirety, JAN 20TH at knife fork book.” – KIRBY more info >