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Launch pad

SATURDAY 3PM DAVID ALEXANDER launches his Nightwood Editions debut, AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN with special guests, LILLIAN NECAKOV + JEFF LATOSIK. 7PM ZED PRESS storm Toronto with two new chapbooks/poets HANAN HAZIME AORTA + KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN Poetry. Here.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Egg fresh

In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars.  – Jeff Latosik DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood […]

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Hatched

k | f | b  THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP  | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU FRIDAY APRIL 20TH  7PM (SHARP) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM […]

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Days like these

A partial view. Where poets meet.  knife | fork | book Pictured: DAVID ALEXANDER SPECER GORDAO OWAIN NICHOLSON DAVID BRADFORD EMMA BROWN SANDERS CHARLOTTE VAN RYN DAVID FLEMING CLAY EVEREST AMANDA EARL KISSEYFURR MAT LAPORTE ALL THOSE IN ATTENDANCE OF LAST NIGHT’S READING (thank you). Not pictured: JAMES G SOUTHCOTT ALLY FLEMING ALVIN WONG CARLETON […]

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KFB FRIDAYS

k | f | b  THIS FRIDAY | NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS SHOWCASE DAVID ALEXANDER SPENCER GORDON OWAIN NICHOLSON FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish DAVID ALEXANDER is the author of the chapbooks Chicken Scratch from Puddles of Sky […]