We love chapbooks. Tasty morsels of ephemera that opportune small presses, those marginalized, established and emerging writers alike, let their creative juices run on the page to a readership keen on encountering the new. Through revisiting chapbooks by brilliant writers who lack the representation of more mainstream writers, we ruminate on the importance of their […]
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KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY Divided from, tucked into. / A part of the whole, / yet severed from the body // that gave her life. / The headless woman floats / in a Cartesian equation. — CAROL BARBOUR “Headless Woman” from Infrangible Di Placido’s plumb line reaches for impossible depths, a sign of extraordinary […]
O, what a lovely way to spend an afternoon. MICHAEL NARDONE’s THE RITUALITES (Book*hug) LAUNCH with TIZIANA LA MELIA and SHIV KOTECHA knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY
POETS MICHAEL FLATT + TRAVIS SHARP read poetry by the hearth. Last night. knife | fork | book
KFB THIS SATURDAY 3PM View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michael Nardone (@mdnardone) “My hope has always been for poets…to be bearers of the urgent form. Nardone’s collections seems to carry that urgency, seems to know artifice for what it is—a holding pattern for thought’s flight, so that it can land in […]
KFB FEATURED POET DECEMBER | NORMA COLE Born in Toronto, Canada, poet, painter & translator Norma Cole moved to France in the late 60s. Returning to Toronto in the early 70s, she migrated to San Francisco in 1977, where she has lived ever since. Her most recent books of poetry include Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 (City Lights), Collective […]
TOBY MARTINEZ DE RIVAS TERROR Rivas is a total scholar of the apocalypse whose erudition’s mode is its own self-immolation. There’s a clenching drama between the precision of the language and the malady of death that pressurizes it into that precision. LYNN CROSBIE THE CORPSES OF THE FUTURE She turns the banality of sickness and […]
“I know you” JONATHAN PAPPO context, na // collapse LAUNCH. Last night. knife | fork | book
KFB | THIS SATURDAY 3PM KFB IN STORE SATURDAY SERIES MICHAEL NARDONE SHIV KOTECHA TIZIANA LA MELIA SATURDAY DECEMBER 8TH 3PM knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. Please […]
KFB | SATURDAYS TODAY 3PM @juliawants @jukelip @ryanfitzpublic #instoreseries TONIGHT 7PM JONATHAN PAPPO #LAUNCH @apeyaliermo https://t.co/W3K8jZ1Yvv#allpoetry #bookshop #toronto #kensingtonmarket pic.twitter.com/gjTLG7Z4pX — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) December 1, 2018
