KFB WEEKEND FRIDAY JUNE 8 DAVID JAMES BROCK | DANI COUTURE | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH SAT JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY | A. LIGHT ZACHARY | CANISIA LUBRIN | MARCELA HUERTA knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 Access: We are a […]
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Relax. This specific emptiness (the desert’s) is not about you, it’s about nobody, but not about you specifically JARED STANLEY, EARS (Nightboat Books) Last night’s rendezvous with poetry, poets BEN MEYERSON HOLCOCENE and JARED STANLEY conjure, mesmerize. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
and NEXT FRIDAY knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please remove your shoes upon entrance.
Marlatt. Robertson. Hall. McFadden. Ball. New. Rare. knife | fork | book Yes, we welcome preloved poetry books/chapbooks/ephemera donations. We can also assist in weeding your collection and pick-up downtown GTA. Contact us at knifeforkbook@gmail.com
JUNE 1 JARED STANLEY | BEN MEYERSON JUNE 8 DANI COUTURE | DAVID JAMES BROCK | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH SAT JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY | A. LIGHT ZACHARY | CANISIA LUBRIN | MARCELA HUERTA JUNE 15 JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE SAT JUNE 16 MAWENZI HOUSE SHOWCASE ARCHNA SAHNI | GEETHA SUKUMARA SUN JUNE 17 KIRBY | OAKVILLE LITERARY CAFE | JOSHUA CREEK ART CENTRE GALLERY 4PM MON JUNE 18 KFB in […]
I like to think of JARED STANLEY’s Ears as a friendly rejoinder to Frank O’Hara’s “Personism,” a brilliant collegial corrective that places the poem not between two persons but just simply between, as open to the gritty wind off the Nevada desert as to the spy novels and hot wings of the anthropocene. Indeed, for Stanley, the […]
There are many reasons we are celebrating dear friend of the shop A. F. MORITZ this Friday evening. First and foremost, his poetry and the recent launch of his beautifully compiled selected, THE SPARROW (Anansi Poetry). But there’s another reason it’s a “lovefest.” Al’s geniune enthusiasm, support, commitment, and love for his students and colleagues, fellow […]
“how gentle is your friend and kind.” Vespers. Devotional. Breathtakingly sparse. Elegant. Wondrous. Moving. Rare. – Kirby AMANDA JERNIGAN YEARS, MONTHS, AND DAYS (Biblioasis) Now in store. knife | fork | book
From the new book of poetry General Motors by Ryan Eckes pic.twitter.com/0qqSdA0uRW — anne boyer (@anne_boyer) April 23, 2018 RYAN ECKES GENERAL MOTORS is to the bone essential…adamant green cracking through pavement. – Kirby Available, print on demand, here. Photo: KIRBY
Toronto artist PHILIP HARE lovingly created this exquisite rendition of KIRBY’S “You’re Welcome” from their chapbook She’s Having a Doris Day, KFB’s newest “broadside,” a pink bandana!, available for preorder online ShopKFB. SOLD OUT
