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Launch season begins

THIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24TH THE SOAP BOX | VOLUME III |  TIME | LAUNCH Karisa Billi, Polyna Alexseev, Shaieree Cottar, Carine Lee, and Andrea Johns, hosted by THE SOAP BOX publisher/editor Tali Varon. Pictured: COLETTE LOVE HILLIARD. Time and Loss  The Soap Box v. III “Time” p 30-1  THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23RD JACLYN PIUDIK TO SUTURE WHAT […]

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Salon night

  Three poets, JOSIE DI SCIASCIO-ANDREWS, SVETLANA LILOVA, KATERI LANTHIER, defy, define, deliver. Exquisite. Magic. In out intimate Green Room. Space held dear.  knife | fork | book UP NEXT: FEB 23  JACLYN PIUDIK To Suture What Frays LAUNCH w/ special guest poet MARK GOLDSTEIN  FEB 24  THE SOAP BOX v.3 LAUNCH  UPCOMING: MARCH 2  TURNSTONE PRESS SHOWCASE  JOANNA LILLEY | RICHARD SCARSBROOK  w/ FEED […]

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Sirens

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY KATERI LANTHIER SIREN (Signal/Vehicule Press, 2017) SVETLANA LILOVA METAPHYSICAL DICTIONARY (Dumagrad, 2017) JOSIE DI SCIASCIO-ANDREWS A JAR OF FIREFLIES (Mosiac Press, 2016) FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 […]

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SHOW TONITE

  LIT LIVE HAMILTON last night was indeed live, with a stellar line-up of poets, GARY BARWIN, BEN ROBINSON, CORNELIA HOOGLAND, DAVID PETER CLARK, (along with DANILA BOTHA and DANIEL COLEMAN, not pictured) at THE STAIRCASE (a haven). Seeing March’s slate, we may have to return.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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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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Subscribe | Support | Savour

k | f | b Subscription Series February|18 Selection: KAVEH AKBAR Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin UK Edition) We’ve opened up our k | f | b Subscription Series so you can now join any time of the year for a full year. Previous titles selected have been SAM SAX Madness (Penguin), CANISIA LUBRIN Voodoo Hypothesis […]

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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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Rich currents w/sax

The reading of a poem, a poetry reading, is not a spectacle, nor can it be passively received. It’s an exchange of electrical currents through language – Adrienne Rich — sam sax (@samsax1) January 26, 2018 Fridays. knife | fork | book (See you tonight.)