beautiful @itsakirby of @knifeforkbook handles each and every poetry book with love. taken last night at the touching and endlessly inspiring Poetry in Voice (@PIV_LVP) Recitation Finals last night. I was there with my daughter, Sadie. Her eyes were lit the whole evening. pic.twitter.com/W43dbBcHHf — Shannon Bramer (@brokencloudco) April 20, 2018 Thank you to […]
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SATURDAY 3PM DAVID ALEXANDER launches his Nightwood Editions debut, AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN with special guests, LILLIAN NECAKOV + JEFF LATOSIK. 7PM ZED PRESS storm Toronto with two new chapbooks/poets HANAN HAZIME AORTA + KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN Poetry. Here. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
touching is not actually touching (fans push the hot air around us) touching is the act of atoms resisting each other touching is resistance TANIS FRANCO, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018) wQr [What Queer Reading], KFB new imprint Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN […]
In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars. – Jeff Latosik DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood […]
Beauty is the evening slowness… KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN (Zed Press, 2018) Beauty is this Saturday Night. knife | fork | book KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI is an Iranian-born writer/translator based in Toronto, currently an editor at Inspiritus Press.
k | f | b THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU FRIDAY APRIL 20TH 7PM (SHARP) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM […]
This afternoon. Poets. Friends. Alice Burdick. Kirby. Laughter. Joy. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend… — brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018 “I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,” This opening line will remain […]
JOHN STINTZI “TO BE BESIDE ONESELF” from THE MACHETE TOURIST (knife | fork | book, 2018) Shop KFB
k | f | b 2017-18 SUBCRIPTION SERIES APRIL SELECTION ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN (knife | fork | book, 2018) w/ THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE (Tightrope Books) For the first time, we’ve chosen one of our own titles, ROXANNA BENNETT’ UNSEEN GARDEN as April’s Selection for KFB’s Subscription Series. We’re including Roxanna’s debut collection, THE UNCERTAINTY […]
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