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Peep show

Best last minute pinhole viewer courtesy of the extra-ordinary @itsakirby @knifeforkbook!#eclipse #sliver #dorisdayfornight pic.twitter.com/smYJNYWl95 — David Seymour (@seymour_robot) August 21, 2017 Her ‘sliver’s’ showing. *kisses* Kb

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Blusty & Doris

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rasiqra Revulva (@rasiqra_revulva) SUBSCRIBE to KFB’s 2017/18 Chapbook Series and receive a FREE COPY of Blusty and Poodle’s Pick, KIRBY’s SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY.

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Poet Warrior Princess

I’m her Poet Warrior Princess (and my pony’s name is Lavender). https://twitter.com/damianrogers/status/888035273015259136 What can authors and publishers specifically do to support your bookstore, either locally or from a distance? It’s cheaper to order online. Cheaper. That’s all. It cheapens us all. Everyone knows I’m not getting monetarily rich selling poetry. But Toronto is much richer […]

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Poodle love

Kirby's chapbook was on my desk. Now it is on the living-room floor and has teeth-marks. Poodle likes it as much as I do @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/2ySBccjzYa — Mary Smith (@dduperreault) May 26, 2017

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Two presses

  * it IS possible. you have value. you have permission * | ** raging against the dying of the light ** LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON @OnlyWhatICan BROOKLYN. Home of two remarkable small presses we carry here at the shop, UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and Lynne Desilva-Johnson’s THE OPERATING SYSTEM. Visits to both proved not only ‘inspired,’ but […]

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Group Huddle at TOPOS

A sparkling occasion from start to finish, host PARKER MENZIMER‘s GROUP HUDDLE Reading Series at TOPOS BOOKSTORE & CAFE this past Wednesday included an exquisitely hand-folded chapbook of the evening’s readers gifted to all in attendence. Such a pleasure to share the stage with poets DAVID BRADFORD and ANDREW DURBIN (who treated us with an excerpt […]

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Full circle

Hoa and I met in the washroom at a CAConrad workshop four or five years ago. When we opened the shop, she asked if there was anything special I wanted to see happen, and I said for my 58th birthday, I’d like to launch a new chapbook and read with CA. Here we are. KIRBY CACONRAD […]

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A multitude of thanks

  A monumental evening. Still soaking in it (and will for some time). Thank you all.  knife | fork | book

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Kirby love shower

  THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY LAUNCH with CA CONRAD APRIL 27TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish

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KFB announces new imprint

  We’re proud to announce our new k|f|b imprint with the upcoming release of four poetry chapbooks: ELIANNA LEV Sex Made Me, DAVID BRADFORD Call Out,  JEFF KIRBY She’s Having a Doris Day (out Apr 27), and new work by JONATHAN GARFINKEL.  knife | fork | book  #poetsmakemewhet