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Greetings

NEW Poet Warrior (Artist: LEO SCOPACASA Orbital Arts Gallery) graces our space, greets you.  knife | fork | book

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Duncan, Olson, Smith, & Katz

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aaron Tucker (@aaron_tucker___) Thanks for this Aaron. And thanks to Adam, Dale, and all who took part in last night’s celebration/launch of these new works.  knife | fork | book Photos. Top: KIRBY Instagram: AARON TUCKER

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She’s gotta pivot

“IN [KIRBY’S] SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY, THERE ARE JUXTAPOSITIONS BETWEEN WHITE MIDDLE CLASS POLITESSE AND WHAT’S HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE, SUCH AS COCKROACHES IN “WHITE SALE”, A PRISTINE BED THAT IS NEVER USED FOR SEX. I LIKE THE WAY GENDER IS HANDLED IN AN ALMOST CASUAL WAY IN THIS POEM. IN “ADAM’S FEET” WE […]

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Work/s

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY ADAM KATZ [+ EMILIA JAGICA] START OVER (Delete Press, 2017) TORONTO LAUNCH DALE SMITH [+ ROBERT J BERTHOLF] AN OPEN MAP: THE CORRESPONDENCE of ROBERT DUNCAN and CHARLES OLSON + IMAGINING PERSONS: ROBERT DUNCAN’S LECTURES ON CHARLES OLSON (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) TORONTO LAUNCH FRIDAY FEBRUARY […]

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BENNETT \ STINTZI \ TURNER

Lauren Turner |  John Stintzi  |  Roxanna Bennett k | f | b 23/03/18 (okay, she’s literally pissing herself. PREORDER HERE)

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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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GTMF

Light of my life, remember / that warm February morning / that charming carcass / on the cracked ice k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY GARRY THOMAS MORSE SAFETY SAND (Talonbooks) TORONTO LAUNCH with special guest poet SONIA DI PLACIDO FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, […]

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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 […]