knife | fork | book is thrilled to host California poets LAUREN LEVIN and ERIC SNEATHEN reading from their debut collections, (The Braid and Snail Poems, respectively) fresh off the press from Krupskaya Books. On The Braid: “is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, […]
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“I prefer to not memorize my texts. Instead, I like my poems to be improvisatory like how I often cut every line and stanza of my poems and rearrange them in a different order. It still remains a wonderful poem to me.” STANFORD CHEUNG’s reading copy of Any Seam or Needlework (The Operating System, 2016) […]
Thanks Dani. knife | fork | book DANI COUTURE JANUARY 12th at kfb
“WHAT?!”* What if the work is just as closed as it looks? What if it just happens to be arranged in words? What if I feel dumb too? And it’s kinda fun? New KFB readers group, led by poet DAVID BRADFORD, tackles the ‘difficult stuff’ of poetry, slowly. “For all that work we’ve been unsure how to […]
A poet is plunderphonics. Living in the surreal but grasping the environment by the neck to what exists. Then it’s translated to words and redefined universally. A poet is not just a stagnant identity itself, nor is it a made identity. Anyone can be a poet as long as one holds firm to expressing themselves. […]
KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT last night at KFB Photos: KIRBY UP NEXT: 11/10 STANFORD CHEUNG. 11/17 LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN. 11/24 MAUREEN HYNES
Poet JONATHAN GARFINKEL reads new work last night at KFB Photos: KIRBY
KILBY SMITH-McGREGOR KIDS IN TRIAGE ROXANNA BENNETT THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3RD knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market Doors open 6:30PM | Reading 7PM Excerpt: Kilby Smith-McGregor IN CONVERSATION: ROXANNA BENNETT’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE The Town Crier, May 18, 2016. Photo: Kilby Smith-McGregor
Do You like spiral notebooks, pages without lines, premium, recycled paper? Even toilet paper for honest prayers? JONATHAN GARFINKEL from “Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur): A Diabetic’s Notebook, Kensington Market” Glass Psalms (Turnstone Press). Jonathan Garfinkel’s poems travel the world in search of spiritual truths, but find only human ones instead. This is no small […]
Poet, ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS, live and in colour, last night @ knife | fork | book Thanks to all who had the good fortune to attend. Photos: KIRBY UPCOMING: 11/02 JONATHAN GARFINKEL 11/03 KILBY SMITH MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT
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