Homecoming. Poet ROXANNA BENNETT returns to KFB with her second full-length collection, UNMEANINGABLE, part of the launch debut of the new Gordon Hill Press. Bennett’s KFB chapbook, Unseen Garden was recently nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, here more grandly realized in what poet Hoa Nguyen describes as “An astonishing collection.” KFB created a numbered […]
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and that’s simply the title. KFB | THIS SATURDAY 7PM TORONTO LAUNCH KEVIN HESLOP there is no minor violence just as there is no negligible cough during an aria (Frog Hollow Press) w/ JOHN NYMAN DAVID BARRICK VIRGINIA KONCHAN MÉLANIE-CHRISTINE LEFEBVRE + CONCETTA PRINCIPE SATURDAY OCTOBER 26TH 7PM SHARP k | f | b MEZZANINE Artscape Youngplace 180 […]
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HOA NGUYEN ASK ABOUT LANGUAGE AS IF IT FORGETS Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry, including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and she […]
THIS FRIDAY | KFB FRIDAYS TREVOR ABES AYESHA CHATTERJEE RAYANNE HAINES SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI FRIDAY OCTOBER 18TH 7PM SHARP k | f | b MEZZANINE Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street Trevor Abes is an artist from Toronto with a fondness for writing essays and poetry. He was part of the winning ensemble at the 2015 […]
“I’m old / and I’m bitter / and I’m going / to tell you / what / I think,” To read JOHN GIORNO, hear him read, the scope of their poetic vision, his aesthetics regarding space, home, place, the pure pleasure of his poems sputtering, erupting, splattering, his entire body percussive, his voice a salve […]
Three years ago this October, KFB launched HOA NGUYEN’s VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS (Wave, 2016) to a full house spilling onto the street in our brand spanking new digs at Rick’s Cafe, Kensington Market. Hoa laughs, but I’ll always credit her for “putting us on the map.” There were many “larger” “established” places she could have […]
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