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W is for Writers

UPCOMING | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS KELLEY AITKEN | NANCY VIVA DAVIS HALIFAX | MAUREEN HYNES | DILYS LEMAN | SUE MACLEOD | SHEILA STEWART THE INCONVENIENTS APRIL 13TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish  

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Such good company

CANADIAN LAUNCH | PREMIERE A staged reading of MADELEINE BRAUN and PARKER MENZIMER‘s collaborative work TrueBlock at the storefront of knife | fork | book last night. A limited edition of TrueBlock now on sale at k|f|b Photos: KIRBY  

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“The book is the meal.”

Jeff Kirby (known as just “Kirby” to most) is seated at a small table in Rick’s Cafe. The long-running Kensington Market coffee shop is nestled on Augusta, close to Big Fat Burrito on one side and El Trompo Tacos on the other.  Kirby is gesturing to a beautifully-organized series of display shelves at the front […]

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Brimming

  EMMA HEALEY, DAMIAN ROGERS, and GWEN BENAWAY last night at knife | fork | book UP NEXT at KFB: TONIGHT WHAT QUEER READING with JEFF KIRBY. MAR 5TH MADELEINE BRAUN + PARKER MENZIMER. MAR 9TH WORDS (ON) PAGES. March 15th | JENNY HAYSOM | NEIL SURKAN  Anstruther Press Book Launch March 16th | HENRY ISRAELI | TIMOTHY LIU | DAVID BRADFORD March 20th […]

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wQr Poetry Reading Series @ KFB

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TrueBlock

FROM NYC | IN PERFORMANCE At a table, Braun and Menzimer trade Sapphic fragments over coffee. Whether the words the other’s or their own, they are logged with the conviction of devoted functionaries. As the libretto loops and the snake spits its tail back out, the lines come to sit like punch lines and jingles. […]

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3 locals

THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS GWEN BENAWAY + EMMA HEALEY + DAMIAN ROGERS MARCH 2ND knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish Photos: from their websites  

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Warmth

Congrats to CLAIRE MARIE STANCEK and the successful launch of her debut MOUTHS (Noemi Press) last night. knife | fork | book Thanks Norman.

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NEW! Poet’s Picks

  POET’S PICKS | LAURA K McRAE SUE CHENETTE* Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions) ROO BORSON Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (McClelland & Stewart) ROBIN ROBERTSON Swithering (Anansi) HOA NGUYEN Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books) Poet LAURA KATHRYN McRAE (Distributaries, Frog Hollow Press) visited the shop yesterday to drop off some beautiful books (including a fine edition […]

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Sundays

The beauty of the reader.  knife | fork | book