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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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Curator on site

Originally posted on gallery1007:
I’ll be at our current gallery show, The Power of Portraiture, at Rick’s Cafe (281 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market) and it’s lovely poetry bookshop, knife | fork | book, from 2-3PM this Sunday, November 13th to meet and answer any questions you may have regarding the work on display/sale. Drop by…

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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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“Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…”

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

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“A poet is plunderphonics.”

A poet is plunderphonics. Living in the surreal but grasping the environment by the neck to what exists. Then it’s translated to words and redefined universally. A poet is not just a stagnant identity itself, nor is it a made identity. Anyone can be a poet as long as one holds firm to expressing themselves. […]

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Locals

But a glimpse of our first month. What it is to be welcomed. Thanks everybody. Thrilled to be here. knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market Toronto

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Pairing

  KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT last night at KFB Photos: KIRBY UP NEXT: 11/10 STANFORD CHEUNG. 11/17 LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN. 11/24 MAUREEN HYNES

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The pleasure of his company

Poet JONATHAN GARFINKEL reads new work last night at KFB Photos: KIRBY