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  Still aglow. METATRON x LIGHT READING x KNIFE|FORK|BOOK this past Tuesday. Hosted by A.ZACHARY w/ SENNAH YEE RASIQRA REVULVA NATALIE WEE EM YA’AKOV LIBERMAN ZOE IMANI SHARPE RUBY BRUNTON (and guests). Photos: KIRBY

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SONS

DALE SMITH   DALE SMITH SONS  OCTOBER 2017 from k | f | b SUBSCRIBE NOW DALE SMITH is a poet, critic, and scholar of poetry and rhetorical theory on the faculty of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the editor with Robert J. Bertholf of An Open Map: The Robert Duncan / Charles […]

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TUESDAY

THIS TUESDAY NIGHT METATRON x LIGHT READING x KFB RUBY BRUNTON EM YA’AKOV LIBERMAN ZOE IMANI SHARPE NATALIE WEE SENNAH YEE TUESDAY AUGUST 15TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto DOORS 6:30 POETRY 7-ISH Access: Ramp entrance into shop. RUBY BRUNTON is a New Zealand-born […]

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HOT

  SIZZLING NEW ARRIVALS (Thanks Kate!)  knife | fork | book  

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Blusty & Doris

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rasiqra Revulva (@rasiqra_revulva) SUBSCRIBE to KFB’s 2017/18 Chapbook Series and receive a FREE COPY of Blusty and Poodle’s Pick, KIRBY’s SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY.

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On our radar

  A sampler of current books we love.  knife | fork | book ERIN ROBINSONG Rag Cosmology (BookThug) KATHRYN MOCKLER DAVID POOLMAN Some Theories (ST Press)  KIMBERLY ALIDIO After Projects the Resound (Black Radish Books) MARCUS MCCANN Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe (Invisible) LINDA BESNER Feel Happier in Nine Seconds (Coach House) IGOR […]

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canadian new poetry splendid summer

Superabundance

SUPERABUNDANT is the only way to describe the sizzling summer issue of ARC POETRY MAGAZINE  (that, and ‘MUST HAVE’) with it’s magnificent cover/portfolio of ANDREW MONCRIEF, new work by KFB familiars LISE GASTON, MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS, JIM JOHNSTONE, AARON KREUTER, BEN LADOUCEUR, CASSIDY MCFADZEAN, SHANE NEILSON, PHILLIP CRYMBLE, and a fucking brilliant turn by FAN […]

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“the why is not the how.”

  JAMES BALDWIN JIMMY’S BLUES A much-coveted ex-library copy from my personal collection, long out-of-print, newly expanded and re-issued by Beacon Press. (On order, I’ll let you know when they arrive.)

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What keeps me here

Feeling the love of the earth,he returned home to himself. pic.twitter.com/ZuxRFwxJwu — Henri Cole (@ColeHenri) July 31, 2017 Pretty much every day, this man touches my heart. Thanks, Henri.   knife | fork | book

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A pleasure to [be]hold

    KFB FEATURED TITLE TEJU COLE BLIND SPOT from PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE 15% OFF THIS WEEK ONLY $66  $55 Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award […]