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On fire

THURSDAY NIGHT POETS DANIELLE LAFRANCE ANAHITA JAMALI RAD THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST knife | fork | book Off-site at Orbital Arts Gallery | 275 Augusta Ave | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish  Access: Wheelchair accessible. No public washrooms. DANIELLE LAFRANCE is a poet, librarian, and militant. Since 1983 she has mostly resided […]

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Window show

Closing night poetry lovefest at Rick’s Cafe filled the Kensington Market sidewalk with poets AARON TUCKER, ANDREW MCEWAN, AND JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL reading from the shop window. All were invited to a surprise preview of our new digs across the street at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Ave 2nd Floor, which opens today, 1-5:30PM.

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Check

THURSDAY NIGHT POETS ANDREW MCEWAN JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL AARON TUCKER THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish ANDREW MCEWAN is the author of repeater (a finalist for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award) and numerous chapbooks, including Conditional and Can’t tell if […]

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What keeps us here

Help!! This is the best thing that’s happened to Toronto!! https://t.co/0Lgabv0cf7 — Jake Byrne (@jakebyrnewrites) September 6, 2017 @itsakirby and @knifeforkbook changed the way I think of community, and changed my life. Click thru if you can. https://t.co/uRywoUa6t5 — David Bradford (@BartleBeeps) September 6, 2017 please read and consider supporting this little heaven for poetry […]

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Year One

knife | fork | book has but one aim, to champion poets and poetry. KIRBY PHOTO ALBUM | YEAR ONE | THE POETS This is far from complete (there are hundreds), but enough along to launch in celebration of our first year. More to come. Thank you poets, enjoy.  knife | fork | book

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‘the lovely gold cross’

An epigraph and a poem from HENRI COLE The Look of Things (Knopf, 1994).

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Match

branch by branch … an emerging narrative of contemporary poetry. MELANIE JANISSE-BARLOW The Poet Series So pleased to have portraits of HELEN GURI and JORDAN ABEL currently on display. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Peep show

Best last minute pinhole viewer courtesy of the extra-ordinary @itsakirby @knifeforkbook!#eclipse #sliver #dorisdayfornight pic.twitter.com/smYJNYWl95 — David Seymour (@seymour_robot) August 21, 2017 Her ‘sliver’s’ showing. *kisses* Kb

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“the why is not the how.”

  JAMES BALDWIN JIMMY’S BLUES A much-coveted ex-library copy from my personal collection, long out-of-print, newly expanded and re-issued by Beacon Press. (On order, I’ll let you know when they arrive.)

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What keeps me here

Feeling the love of the earth,he returned home to himself. pic.twitter.com/ZuxRFwxJwu — Henri Cole (@ColeHenri) July 31, 2017 Pretty much every day, this man touches my heart. Thanks, Henri.   knife | fork | book