Categories
chapbooks events KFB SAL/ONline launch poet poetry pretty splendid summer thankyou very

KFB SAL/ONline DEBUTS

and we’re back. Darlin’s, in the grand tradition of Stein, Matisse, and Capote, we’ve officially entered our “Salon Phase.” We couldn’t be more chuffed. And to debut with these stunning new ANSTRUTHER PRESS chapbooks, this line-up of poets, made it all the more. Thanks to all who joined SAMUEL STRATHMAN, SÍLE ENGLERT, AYAZ PIRANI, SHANE […]

Categories
chapbooks events launch new news poet poetry reading splendid thankyou very winter wQr

wQr launches, soars

“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

Categories
events KFBFridays launch new poet poetry reading splendid spring

Queer space

touching is not actually touching (fans push the hot air around us) touching is the act of atoms resisting each other touching is resistance TANIS FRANCO, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018) wQr [What Queer Reading], KFB new imprint Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN […]

Categories
events KFBFridays launch new poet poetry reading splendid spring

Friday Night Poetry

  Night is relevant still / Answer my call A glorious outing celebrating poet JACLYN PIUDIK’s full-length debut, TO SUTURE WHAT FRAYS (Kelsay Books, 2017) w/ special guest poet MARK GOLDSTEIN, last night. Resplendent. This is how we launch. knife | fork | book

Categories
books poet poetry reading splendid

Hello from B.C.

POET’S PICKS | LEANNE DUNIC West coast poet, LEANNE DUNIC, checks out our current BookThug display, including her beauteous debut collection, To Love the Coming End. She also found/recommends fellow BT poets, Marianne Apostolides Deep Salt Water, Adrienne Gruber Buoyancy Control, and Fred Wah Scree (Talonbooks). Photos: KIRBY