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“Together we hatched a thing whose sweetness is matched only by its brilliance.” PRATHNA LOR CODY CAETANO BEN HJORTH on a queer carousel orchestrated by WHAT QUEER READING Series Editor FAN WU at a capacity house last night. Poetry well served. knife | fork | book
1ST ANNUAL KFB FUCK WINTER WEEK 25JAN – 2FEB SCHEDULE 25 JAN 7PM #KFBFWW OPENING NIGHT FROM VICTORIA BC CHRISTINE WALDE BRIDE MACHINE (FLASK) W/SPECIAL GUEST POET AARON TUCKER 26 JAN 3PM #KFBFWW FROM MONTREAL CATHERINE LALONDE & OANA AVASILICHIOAEI THE FAERIE DEVOURING (BOOK*HUG) TORONTO LAUNCH 29 JAN 4PM #KFBFWW KFB CHAPBOOK CLUB W/KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI READS ALLY FLEMING THE WORST SEASON (ANSTRUTHER) 30 […]
KFB | REVIEW SINISTER QUEER AGENDA TRAVIS SHARP ABOVE/GROUND, 2018. I dream so much f body I run out of small strips of paper In a way I feel like I’ve known Travis Sharp for years. I ingest his new chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda and I sense a deep connection to his words, […]
BEGINS ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT KIRBY READING CAVAFY: THE POET OF LONGING #KFBPoetryLab #poetry #reading #group trans. Keeley/Sherrard pic.twitter.com/ma5FWVe1j7 — KIRBY (@itsakirby) January 9, 2019
“Tomorrow, the day after, or through the years he’ll write powerful lines, that here was their beginning.” KFB POETRY LAB | BEGINS JAN 16 I’m often asked what bought me to poetry. It opened the door of my closet. O’Hara. Ginsberg. Genet. Lorde. Ashbery. Schuyler. Baldwin. Tenn. Giorno. Cole. Rich. Jordan. Clifton. Gunn. Hemphill. Cooper. […]
In his tent, Achillesgrieved with his whole beingand the gods sawhe was a man already dead, a victimof the part that loved,the part that was mortal. ~ Louise Glück (Dying Achilles, Achilleion palace on Corfu) pic.twitter.com/en9SOtP6Mq — 𝒦𝓊𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝒸𝒽𝓉 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒽𝓉𝒷𝒶𝓇 (@desiderium0) December 28, 2018 see also: KIRBY/CAVAFY: The Poet of Longing BEGINS JAN 16TH
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 […]
KFB | JANUARY 25 JAN – 2 FEB KFB FWW [FUCK WINTER WEEK] 25 JAN – 2 FEB KFB FWW [FUCK WINTER WEEK] TEN DAYS of dynamic programming including the LAUNCH of wQr WHAT QUEER READING’s DEBUT CHAPBOOKS by PRATHNA LOR & CODY CAETANO, from Victoria CHRISTINE WALDE, from Montreal CATHERINE LALONDE & OANA AVASILICHIOAEI, JESSICA […]
In the back door, the happy moments streaked with sadness, but perhaps they always were. Young lady, is the password. — John Ashbery (@AshberyEbooks) November 11, 2018
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