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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 […]

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Pleasure treasure

Pouring over a stack of Strand, Schuyler, Carson, Hall, Gunn, Robertson, Barwin, Bidart. (Carson and Robertson, selected for purchase, this time round.)  knife | fork | book Congrats Torben on your first published work in the current Hart House Review. Photos: KIRBY

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Elianna at the beach

Poet ELIANNA LEV reads from SEX MADE ME (knife | fork | book, 2017) and new work in a live pop-up performance THIS SATURDAY 3PM at SUNSET BEACH, VANCOUVER

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MyOther day

  Reading ROSA ALCALA MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017). Photos: KIRBY

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Trio

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY SHANNON BRAMER PRECIOUS ENERGY CATHERINE GRAHAM THE CELERY FOREST JESSICA HIEMSTRA THE HOLY NOTHING FRIDAY JANUARY 19TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks (we’re shoeless). Poet and […]

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A whirlwind

“Kirby, would you come in January?”* Okay, she fell in love with this place. A warm, welcoming evening at TREE READING SERIES (Ottawa) with PEARL PIRIE hosting a full house at BLACK SQUIRREL BOOKS & ESPRESSO BAR (a haven) with featured poets MARGO LAPIERRE  (Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes, Guernica Editions, 2017) & KIRBY (She’s Having a […]

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OTTAWA TONIGHT

"The simplicity and grace of the design of this small title is quite striking … these are poems that proclaim a victory through perseverance, survival and a refusal to not exist loudly and joyously…" @robmclennanblog https://t.co/76WRTqUnVm KIRBYJAN 9TH@treeseries OTTAWA pic.twitter.com/PsdnwaAmTE — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 21, 2017 She's bringing it. #bonafide KIRBY@itsakirby OTTAWA @treeseries JAN 9TH8PM@BSBOttawaw/ […]

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Surrealist extravaganza

SHANNON MAGUIRE DAVID BATEMAN ROBERT PRIEST BEATRIZ HAUSNER SHERI-D WILSON hold court to a full house of hardy poets, “the coldest January 5th on record.” Where were the poets? Keeping the hearth.  knife | fork | book KFB UPCOMING: JAN 9 KFB | KIRBY ‘DORIS’ IN OTTAWA |TREE READING SERIES | MARGO LAPIERRE JAN 12  SLO-PO w/ DAVID BRADFORD (reading […]