With a passion for simple design and good work, knife | fork | book has been publishing poetry chapbooks since 2017. “Our aim,” says KFB’s publisher Kirby, “is to serve the book,” tending to the beauty of the book in hand. In 2019, KFB launched a second imprint, What Queer Reading [wQr], edited by Fan Wu, with a directive to publish queer/BIPOC poets. Also in 2019, KFB launched a NOT YOUR BEST series, the premiere issue edited by Eric Schmaltz. We have since branched out into broadsides, ephemera, and full-length collections.
KFB PUBLICATIONS
2021
BEN ROBINSON WITHOUT FORM Co-Published w/THE BLASTED TREE Forthcoming
KFB SERIES NOT YOUR BEST NO. 2 Edited by KIRBY Preorder
JENNIFER LOVEGROVE THE TINDER SONNETS Preorder
AMANDA EARL MATTHEW Purchase
TRAVIS SHARP YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER Purchase
JIM JOHNSTONE THE OUROBOROS Purchase
R. KOLEWE THE WILD FOX Purchase
SHANE NEILSON WALT Purchase
2020
CORY LAVENDER Ballad of Bernie “Bear” Roy KFB Pamphlet Series 001 Purchase
GARY BARWIN + KATHRYN MOCKLER ME THEN YOU THEN ME THEN Purchase
NEIL SURKAN THEIR QUEER TENDERNESS Purchase
PHILIP HARE | KIRBY “YOU’RE WELCOME” BANDANA Purchase
HAMISH BALLANTYNE IMITATION CRAB Purchase
MICHAEL CAVUTO COUNTRY POEMS Purchase
JOHN NYMAN THE DEVIL Purchase
ANDY VERBOOM DBL Purchase
2019
ROXANNA BENNETT “BLUE ROSE” BROADSIDE Sold Out
HOA NGUYEN ASK ABOUT LANGUAGE AS IF IT FORGETS Purchase
brandy ryan KERRY MANDERS AFTER PULSE Purchase
ERIC SCHMALTZ [editor] NOT YOUR BEST BEST VOL 1 Purchase
KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI DEAR KESTREL Sold Out [eBook]
R. KOLEWE SILENCE, THEN Sold Out [eBook]
CODY CAETANO PLEASURE DOME POEMS [wQr] Purchase
PRATHNA LOR 7,2 [wQr] Sold Out
2018
KATE SUTHERLAND BEASTS OF THE SEA Purchase
ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN Sold Out [eBook]
JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI THE MACHETE TOURIST Sold Out [eBook]
LAUREN TURNER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME Sold Out [eBook]
DALE SMITH SONS BROADSIDE Purchase
2017
DALE SMITH SONS Sold Out [eBook]
ELIANNA LEV SEX MADE ME Sold Out
DAVID BRADFORD CALL OUT Sold Out
JONATHAN GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) Sold Out [eBook]
