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This beauty, designed and delivered by “maker-of-things” JESSICA JOY HIEMSTRA, PAUL, and BRANDY RYAN. Just in time.  knife | fork | book  

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We’re BLASTED

  Our first package arrives THE BLASTED TREE Toronto  Exclusively at KFB

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POET-IN-STORE

Wonderful afternoon talking poetry with poet R. KOLEWE in store today. His recommendations included SONIA DI PLACIDO Flesh (Guernica) CONCETTA PRINCIPE This Real (Pedlar) STEPHEN COLLIS Once in Blockadia (Talon) DOMINIQUE RUSSELL Instruction for Dreamers CHRISTINE STEWART Treaty 6 Deixis (Talon) MARK TRUSCOTT Branches (Book*hug). We recommend R. KOLEWE silence, then (knife | fork | […]

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“I dream so much of body.”

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Khashayar Mohammadi (Kess) (@dearkestrel) UP NEXT: TUESDAY APRIL 30TH 4PM KFB CHAPBOOK CLUB w/KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI reads DOMINIK PARISIEN WE, OLD YOUNG ONES (Frog Hollow Press) with author in attendance. #KFBNPM

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“There is only one”

“There is only one, will only ever be one, whose loss can destroy you. When you search your soul, you know this is so.” – ANNE MICHAELS from “QUEEN STREET EAST” in UNITED MARBLE, a work-in-progress with photographs by GEOFFREY JAMES Last night held a touch of the divine. To be privy to a work-in-progress […]

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Julie, Kim, & Sam’s

It felt like home. JULIE MORRISSY, KIM FAHNER, SAMUEL GUEST, fellow poets, family, friends gather to launch, read, hear, share, celebrate. Last night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“My soul found some ease; the poor thing, it’s / always constrained by the weight of the years.”

CAVAFY, It Must Have Been the Spirits (February 1919) Translated by DANIEL MENDELSOHN

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MORRISSY FAHNER GUEST

THIS FRIDAY | KFB FRIDAYS       JULIE MORRISSY WHERE, THE MILE END (BOOK*HUG) LAUNCH KIM FAHNER THESE WINGS (PEDLAR PRESS) + SAMUEL GUEST THE RADICAL DREAMS FRIDAY MARCH 15TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors: 6:30  Poetry 7 Access: We are a […]

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“EARTHY ANECDOTES” CHATTERJEE CLARKE GRAHAM KIRBY MOCKLER APR 5TH

KFBFRIDAYS | FRIDAY APRIL 5th AYESHA CHATTERJEE | GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE | CATHERINE GRAHAM | KIRBY | KATHRYN MOCKLER EARTHY ANECDOTES FRIDAY APRIL 5TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 | Poetry 7 Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please […]

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CATHERINE GRAHAM “THE SHORT POEM” WORKSHOP MAY 25TH

  KFB POETRY LAB WELCOMES “Graham’s poems are sparely worded but full of evocative images that vividly convey a wide range of emotion, from passion to grief.” —CBC Books “Master of the short poem.” – Kirby CATHERINE GRAHAM THE SHORT POEM WORKSHOP Compression, image, metaphor, voice—there are many routes to the short poem. How does it […]