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Threesome

Our first threesome.@cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 JAN 19TH#ThursNightPoets@RicksKensington #poetry #bookshop #toronto pic.twitter.com/8ftPoeqNk8 — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 8, 2017

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EUPHONIA

#ThursNightPoets returns January 12th with the LAUNCH of CHAD CAMPBELL EUPHONIA and a second third printing of DANI COUTURE BLACK SEA NETTLE from ANSTRUTHER PRESS THURSDAY JANUARY 12TH knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM | Poetry 7-ish CHAD CAMPBELL‘s first collection, Laws & Locks, was published by […]

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2017 January 20

“Sixty-one years of military operation names read by sixty-one writers, artists, activists, students and veterans around the world. The night will be a communal protest against imperialism, occupation and bellicose nationalism.” MOEZ SURANI “After reading (and re-reading) MOEZ SURANI’s Operations, I simply knew I wanted to have it read aloud, in its entirety, January 20th at […]

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“Buckle-up darlings…”

…there may be some turbulence ahead. And remember, place your own oxygen mask on first before attending to others.” 01/12 DANI COUTURE + CHAD CAMPBELL 01/13 SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD 01/19 CLAIRE CALDWELL  +  LAURA K McRAE + MICHAEL PRIOR 01/20 MOEZ SURANI ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация 01/26 CONCETTA PRINCIPE + RONNA BLOOM 02/02 AARON KREUTER  +  JIM NASON 02/03 wQr Reading Series with JEFF KIRBY 02/16 KATE SCHAPIRA +  AARON […]

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“We are for fervour.”

“The heart allows us because we bring the words to its door… The heart is wise.” from SHANE NEILSON THE MANIFESTO OF FERVOURISM.  A Ryga Chapbook, 2015. Okanagan College.

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What keeps me here

  Anansi. Anthuser. Apt.9. Arsenal Pulp. Baseline. BookThug. Brick. Canadian Magazines. Coach House. Coffee House. Copper Canyon. Desert Pets Press. Dumagrad. Fellow independent booksellers. Frog Hollow. Gaspereau. Gesture. Goose Lane. Guernica Editions. Invisible. Krupskaya. Mansfield. Metatron. The Operating System. Palimpsest. Pedlar. Porcupine’s Quill. Puddles of Sky. Self-publishers. Signature Editions. The Song Cave. Sunny Outside. Thee […]

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Present time

  “I’m intoxicated by fire, light traveling through color, integrity of materials and making something where there was nothing… I love the overpowering silence involved.” LISSA WOLSAK (Vert Magazine) Wolsak in Of Beings Alone interjects into her poetry the disappointment of our present time, compelled as it is by capitalism’s bottom line and the “mean” […]

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“Rock with you

What rocked our world this year? @knifeforkbook did! Thank you to @itsakirby for being a true champion of #poetry! https://t.co/JjXDTsX1tm — BookThug (@bookthug) December 20, 2016   girl, all night”  knife | fork | book

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The poets

@knifeforkbook @bookthug @LawandLit @RicksKensington @itsakirby – I’ll certainly be back soon. Thank you so much for giving poetry a home. — Jimmy McInnes (@JimmyMcInnes) November 18, 2016 Yes, there’s plenty of things to say goodbye to 2016. But, we have dozens, (if not hundreds), of reasons to be thankful. The real story? Since we’ve opened in […]

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Daily

To all our familiars, past, present and future. Blessings.   knife | fork | book Original post:—John Berger, from “Some Notes About Song”  R.A.Villanueva on Twitter