Dear friends, You are formally invited to join us at Toronto’s Knife Fork Book (Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street) on March 6, 2020, for a reading by recent Not Your Best contributor Cam Scott––whom Jonathan Ball calls a “Poetry Punk“––alongside award-winning Hamilton writer Benjamin Robinson and Toronto-based writer and community organizer Vannessa Barnier. Readings will commence shortly after 7 pm. The night […]
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Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books of poetry, including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. As a public proponent and advocate of contemporary poetry, she has served as guest editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 and she has performed and lectured at numerous institutions, including Princeton […]
The new. Fully accessible. All-poetry. Destination. Please join us celebrating our 3rd Anniversary with three extraordinary new KFB publications at our new home. Readings/work from the PREMIERE ISSUE of our NEW series NOT YOUR BEST No. 1 Edited by ERIC SCHMALTZ w/RASIQRA REVULA SACHA ARCHER KERRY MANDERS + brandy ryan AFTER PULSE HOA NGUYEN ASK […]
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KFB | JANUARY 25 JAN – 2 FEB KFB FWW [FUCK WINTER WEEK] 25 JAN – 2 FEB KFB FWW [FUCK WINTER WEEK] TEN DAYS of dynamic programming including the LAUNCH of wQr WHAT QUEER READING’s DEBUT CHAPBOOKS by PRATHNA LOR & CODY CAETANO, from Victoria CHRISTINE WALDE, from Montreal CATHERINE LALONDE & OANA AVASILICHIOAEI, JESSICA […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: KFB SET TO LAUNCH NEW ANNUAL—NOT YOUR BEST —PREMIERE ISSUE GUEST EDITED BY ERIC SCHMALTZ I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected as Guest Editor for the first installation of Not Your Best, an annual magazine published by knife|fork|book (Toronto). Intended as a magazine that eschews the idea of “best,” I understand […]
ERIC SCHMALTZ, ELIANNA LEV, and MIKE LALA highlight our Thursday Night Poets Series last night. knife | fork | book UP NEXT at KFB: April 11th BIBLIOASIS SHOWCASE MOLLY PEACOCK | PATRICIA YOUNG | NOAH WARENESS. April 13th THE INCONVENIENTS. April 20th WORDS (ON) PAGES. April 21st ULRIKKA GERNES | CASSIDY McFADZEAN. April 27th CAConrad | Jeff KIRBY. April 28th & 29th | CAConradWorkshops: New Moon […]
THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS MIKE LALA + ELIANNA LEV + ERIC SCHMALTZ APRIL 6TH Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto MIKE LALA is a poet who works with text, recorded sound, and, occasionally, images. His work has appeared in […]
With every encounter, I seek to draw out an idea & place it among a constellation of thought within which I try to locate my work. Poet ERIC SCHMALTZ dropped by the shop to deliver these gems of utter delight, completely rocking my world. Find them here. knife | fork | book see also: Eric’s […]