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“Wouldn’t that be great?”

To keep going, you need to feel you are making good work—or moving in the direction of making good work, or interesting work, or are interested in the work you are making—and see that as the thing you are aiming to do. Anything good that happens beyond is a bonus…” Cameron Anstee, Some Silences: Notes […]

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POETRY IS THE REASON

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“This is f-king brilliant.”

“We’ve got a pact,” Ziegler said. “You have permission to read for an hour, with no other interruptions.” “It’s about building community.” – VICKI ZIEGLER, “bookgaga” Ah! that oft-used word, “community.” I’ve heard rumours of a mythical “poetry community,” as though one in and of itself exists. My actual experience, there are highly valued small […]

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“Actually, I love this poem.”

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“almost spring”

“There was a story.” There is a story. Norma, Dale & I. Norma hails from Toronto, an artist/poet living in San Francisco making her mark, raising the bar for some time now. She met Dale there (originally from Texas, where Skanky Possum & Slow Poetry in America blossomed) who took a teaching job in Toronto […]

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KFB goes to the fair

+ assorted KFB rarities & goodness. w/Anstruther Press, noir-Z, Gap Riot, Coach House +++ This Saturday 11-5 TIFA Harbourfront TO

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Fence in cursive

starling burdock mullien clover dandelion “I’m writing in a fence,” my friend Sadiqa shares sending a photo of a cursive l and I knew then & there I must go stand beside her, see this wonder. Yesterday, we did. Sadiqa de Meijer, “The Ones That Made Landfall,” 2023, repurposed cotton + polyester fabric. 2023 Eco-Art […]

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Sublimely fertile

“what I’m trying to say is / these waves are another kind of animal” Created to celebrate the second instalment of Fertile. OANA AVASILICHIOAEI Improbable Theatres DEAN GARLICK Domestic Sublime WILL MANNING Joan Would Say SUBHANYA SIVAJOTHY Singing Fish Notation  KATE SUTHERLAND Nuptials à la carte or save with the bundle! and see them all at Fertile! > Schedule > […]

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ICFIIT LAUNCHES AT TPW

Launching poetry at the place for poetry. MICHAEL FLATT reads from his new KFB collection I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY supported by poet, R/B MERTZ reading from their upcoming CU T (Threadsuns, 2024) to a welcoming house at The Printed Word Bookshop, Dundas ON last night. Thanks James, and all who came out to […]

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FLATT x 4

from I Can Focus If I Try the new full-length KFB collection by Michael Flatt