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What delights

“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.” – Hugo von Hofmannsthal “When I laugh from my belly, it’s a good day.” – Kirby People often ask how I got into this poetry gig, or my own inquiry, “What keeps me here?” The simple answer. It delights me. […]

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TWO LAUREATES: GEOFFREY JAMES + ANNE MICHAELS MARCH 22ND

KFB | MARCH 22ND TO PHOTO LAUREATE GEOFFREY JAMES TO POET LAUREATE ANNE MICHAELS ONE UNFORGETTABLE EVENING FRIDAY MARCH 22ND knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Start 7 PLEASE NOTE: LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE. NO ENTRY ONCE PROGRAM […]

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The joy that is

Saturdays. Poets KLARA DU PLESSIS (EKKE Palimpsest Press) + JIM JOHNSTONE (ed. THE NEXT WAVE: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry Anstruther Press) spend some time pouring over the goods.  knife | fork | book 

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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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INKWELL POETRY SHOWCASE

KFB | TODAY 3PM Eight of our writers will take the stage at Toronto’s poetry-only bookstore to move, entertain, and inspire you. HONEY NOVICK  ASPI KOOTAR  EMILY WAKNINE  LORRAINE GARRAWAY  MARK HARVEY  PAMELA CHYNN  JOSEPH PIRRELLO  MICHÈLE BRETON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23RD 3PM Co-sponsored by knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | […]

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“kind of wanted to stay forever”

went to visit @knifeforkbook while hanging out in Toronto and kind of wanted to stay forever, what a dreamy little place 😍 — Cara Nelissen (@CaraNelissen) February 19, 2019 “dreamy”  knife | fork | book (thanks Cara, again soon)

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The warmth of good company

The poet’s came out last night and were rewarded in kind with readings by E MARTIN NOLAN and ELEE KRALJII GARDINER. Good company. Still warm.

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The significance of place

Poets. What keeps us here. Poetry. What we serve. Well. Please consider becoming a KFB Member. Thank you.   knife | fork | book Photos: Winter 2018/19 at KFB

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TONIGHT! ELEE KRALJII GARDINER w/E MARTIN NOLAN

FEB 15TH | KFBFRIDAYS This book is risky, intelligent and generous. A new kind of narrative.—Ali Blythe Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s Trauma Head is a quicksilvered mirror—a startling and exquisite sequence of poems. The ‘unspeakable’ reflected is intensely fierce and sublimely sensual. Difficult, devastating, and meticulously crafted, this work is a rewarding chronicle of persistence through the […]

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BEBENEK PARKER FELDMAN TONIGHT!

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