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The beauty of the reader

POETS MICHAEL FLATT + TRAVIS SHARP read poetry by the hearth. Last night. knife | fork | book

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“bearers of the urgent form”

KFB THIS SATURDAY 3PM View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michael Nardone (@mdnardone) “My hope has always been for poets…to be bearers of the urgent form. Nardone’s collections seems to carry that urgency, seems to know artifice for what it is—a holding pattern for thought’s flight, so that it can land in […]

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Big river

  RITA WONG & FRED WAH BEHOLDEN a poem as long as the river from Talonbooks

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KFB FEATURED POET | DEC 18

KFB FEATURED POET DECEMBER | NORMA COLE Born in Toronto, Canada, poet, painter & translator Norma Cole moved to France in the late 60s. Returning to Toronto in the early 70s, she migrated to San Francisco in 1977, where she has lived ever since. Her most recent books of poetry include Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 (City Lights), Collective […]

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k2tog Knitting Circle w/JESSICA BEBENEK

KFB POETRY LAB Presents k2tog Knitting Circle w/Jessica Bebenek@notyrmuse SATURDAY DECEMBER 15TH 3-5PMhttps://t.co/ACPDE2h3Va Only ten spots available, REGISTER TODAY (free with purchase of book)https://t.co/lp6KJFhoBE #poetry #knitting #circle #launch #k2tog pic.twitter.com/YRzrDKC0aT — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 5, 2018

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Fan’s 2018 Picks

    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 […]

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KFB 2018 PICKS

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 […]

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he looked up at me

  “I know you” JONATHAN PAPPO context, na // collapse LAUNCH. Last night. knife | fork | book

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BERNICKY PALIWAL SUURKOIVU

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 […]

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NARDONE KOTECHA LA MELIA

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 […]