TOBY MARTINEZ DE RIVAS TERROR Rivas is a total scholar of the apocalypse whose erudition’s mode is its own self-immolation. There’s a clenching drama between the precision of the language and the malady of death that pressurizes it into that precision. LYNN CROSBIE THE CORPSES OF THE FUTURE She turns the banality of sickness and […]
Category: poetry
Contrary to what cannot be found in a country’s major newspaper, it was a great year for poetry, Canadian and elsewhere. What do I read/look for? Did the work accomplish what it set out to do? Does it surprise/delight? Stay with me? As a publisher/programmer the measure is “if this is the one thing we […]
“I know you” JONATHAN PAPPO context, na // collapse LAUNCH. Last night. knife | fork | book
KFB | THIS SATURDAY 7PM With these three striking, extraordinary new chapbooks, all we can say is, “Welcome, The Soap Box.” – Kirby The Soap Box: 2018 Chapbook Series Launch SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto […]
KFB | THIS SATURDAY 3PM KFB IN STORE SATURDAY SERIES MICHAEL NARDONE SHIV KOTECHA TIZIANA LA MELIA SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH 3PM knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please […]
KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY II. We get home referring to some shitty moldy apartment we take off our clothes referring to the clearance rack at Goodwill we lay down in our bed unsexed and sexless the ritual of getting ready took too long for both of us and after working our collective seven jobs […]
You didn’t have to kill her for that phone. To be privy to hear these two tag team as “Bonnie & Clyde” in their wicked new collaborative work, (not your fireside chat). ROBERT SIEK (WE GO SEASONAL) & LYNN CROSBIE last night. knife | fork | book
KFB | SATURDAYS TODAY 3PM @juliawants @jukelip @ryanfitzpublic #instoreseries TONIGHT 7PM JONATHAN PAPPO #LAUNCH @apeyaliermo https://t.co/W3K8jZ1Yvv#allpoetry #bookshop #toronto #kensingtonmarket pic.twitter.com/gjTLG7Z4pX — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 1, 2018
The fun kind. BROOKLYN POET ROBERT SIEK and THE FORCE the ICONIC LYNN CROSBIE WE GO SEASONAL (SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS) CANADIAN LAUNCH #KFBFRIDAYS TONIGHT Doors 6:30 7PM Start
Dear KFB’rs I’m happy to say, this December is our biggest, most festive month ever at the shop! Offerings from our new KFB Poetry Lab continue with Montreal-based poet JESSICA BEBENEK launching her newest k2tog (knit together) with a Knitting Circle Sat Dec 15th, followed by HOA NGUYEN celebrating the 40th Anniversary of BERNADETTE MAYER’s Midwinter Day with a writing workshop on the very same day, Sat […]
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