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It’s exactly one year ago that KFB’s first little chapbook launched, KIRBY’s SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY, cleverly disguised as a pink bon bon with legs that kick. Four printings later, nearly 400 copies sold, fellow KFB poet JONATHAN GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) and myself invite you to celebrate with us this TUESDAY MAY 1ST reading at […]
Here’s the real ‘deal.’ We’re a poetry-only bookshop with one of the most vibrant reading schedules on the face of the earth. In Toronto. You can’t get that online. We’re worth the actual retail cost of a book. And a little more. …now known as an angelic upstart from coast to coast in Canada…knife | […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aaron Tucker (@aaron_tucker___) A lovely thing to wake up to. Thanks Aaron. – Kirby DORIS is now in her 4th printing, preparing to hit the road starting TUESDAY MAY 1ST in Brooklyn at SPOONBILL with fellow k | f | b poet JONATHAN GARFINKEL and dates […]
“IN [KIRBY’S] SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY, THERE ARE JUXTAPOSITIONS BETWEEN WHITE MIDDLE CLASS POLITESSE AND WHAT’S HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE, SUCH AS COCKROACHES IN “WHITE SALE”, A PRISTINE BED THAT IS NEVER USED FOR SEX. I LIKE THE WAY GENDER IS HANDLED IN AN ALMOST CASUAL WAY IN THIS POEM. IN “ADAM’S FEET” WE […]
"The simplicity and grace of the design of this small title is quite striking … these are poems that proclaim a victory through perseverance, survival and a refusal to not exist loudly and joyously…" @robmclennanblog https://t.co/76WRTqUnVm KIRBYJAN 9TH@treeseries OTTAWA pic.twitter.com/PsdnwaAmTE — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 21, 2017 She's bringing it. #bonafide KIRBY@itsakirby OTTAWA @treeseries JAN 9TH8PM@BSBOttawaw/ […]
We love you. knife | fork | book PICTURED: k | f | b MONTREAL 2017 FALL CHAPBOOK LAUNCH featuring DAVID BRADFORD CALL OUT ELIANNA LEV SEX MADE ME DALE SMITH SONS LAUREN TURNER WE’RE NOT GONG TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME Hosted by KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY at MONASTIRAKI (Thanks BILLY […]
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I, @itsakirby, have never & will never use any social media platform to set-up, attack, judge, guilt, shame, wrong, put down, abuse, expect answers from, nor mistake as dialog/conversation. Here, I will only champion/celebrate #poets & #poetry. Yours, I remain. Kirby#kisses pic.twitter.com/u5PZ5pFpwX — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 8, 2017
Poetry is an event. Poetry read aloud is a vital, courageous, extraordinary act. It’s my refresh button. Sustenance. What keeps us here. Pockets of vibrant, responsive, living communities in support of one another. Challenging, raising the bar. Hearing what we haven’t, repeatedly the same, repeatedly new. To etch out identities and form. Find resonance and […]
We took a trip to poetry heaven @knifeforkbook, & talked w/ owner @itsakirby abt its (& his!) unstoppable momentum.https://t.co/MdWIJf6J1p pic.twitter.com/ekvppGPRS7 — All Lit Up (@alllitupcanada) October 4, 2017 Thank you Lauren Perruzza, and the terrific crew at All Lit Up.
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