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Best friends.

“You need a best friend in poetry to survive.” – Henri Cole

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“A salty gratitude for being on Earth”

KFB | SATURDAY 3PM Aglow with postcolonial loss, wryly defiant of what they reveal, Pirani’s poems describe a warm estrangement and salty gratitude for being on Earth. AYAZ PIRANI KABIR’S JACKET HAS A THOUSAND POCKETS (Mawenzi House) SATURDAY JULY 27TH 3PM knife | fork | bookat The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | […]

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KFB WHITBY

TONIGHT! ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY MONDAY JUNE 18TH WHITBY PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL BRANCH DOORS 7PM FREE ALL ACCESS ROXANNA BENNETT IS A DISABLED POET AND THE AUTHOR OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE  (TIGHTROPE BOOKS, 2014) AND UNSEEN GARDEN (KNIFE | FORK | BOOK, 2018). HER WORK HAS APPEARED IN BITCH MAGAZINE, SLICE MAGAZINE, THE DALHOUSIE REVIEW, […]

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That girl

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLQY6QFm0B/ Brings us hope, love & laughter. CONGRATS on your pop-up poetry reading at Sunset Beach!  knife | fork | book PICTURED: Poet ELIANNA LEV reads from SEX MADE ME (knife | fork | book, 2017) Sunset Beach, Vancouver, yesterday afternoon.

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Blue

  STEVE MEAGHER   THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS STUART ROSS + STEVE MEAGHER MARCH 23RD Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish Copywright 2017. Steve Meagher

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“between a protest and prayer”

The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” JAMES BALDWIN The Creative Process On Friday night, while the […]

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Threesome

Our first threesome.@cpmcaldwell @purlpoet @michaelprior06 JAN 19TH#ThursNightPoets@RicksKensington #poetry #bookshop #toronto pic.twitter.com/8ftPoeqNk8 — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) January 8, 2017

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A prestigious affair

Our friends at Tightrope Books launch their signature series with a select line-up of poets at Harbourfront this evening.

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]

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Simply the best

We’re salivating. See you there.  knife | fork | book And drop by our place after, we’re open until 9PM tonight @Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market.