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The Absence of Zero

LISTENING SERIES | NEW WORKS “Or waking in an empty house valuing solitude” Starting Tuesday February 4, 7:00pm at knife | fork | book and continuing for one evening each of the next three weeks, R. KOLEWE will be reading through The Absence of Zero, a long poem about time, memory, loss, and the continuing mess […]

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The proximity of sky

“THE BEST EVENTS at DesignTO 2020” – NOW MAGAZINE JESSICA HIEMSTRA The Sky is Falling – DesignTO 2020 Visual artist, designer and poet Jessica Hiemstra creates an abstracted paper sky on the ceiling of Canada’s only all-poetry bookstore, Knife Fork Book. Using watercolour paper, thread and washes of hand-made Genzah watercolour paint, Hiemstra’s sky is […]

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“Let there be light

and light appeared.” KFB Poetry Lab & DesignTO present JESSICA HIEMSTRA THE SKY IS FALLING 16-26 JANUARY k | f | b MEZZANINE ARTSCAPE YOUNGPLACE 180 SHAW STREET Opening Reception 16 JAN 6-8PM There are few people I laugh from my belly with more than Jessica Hiemstra. I’ve always said, “when my belly is here, […]

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Approaching Skies

KFB Poetry Lab & DesignTO presents JESSICA HIEMSTRA THE SKY IS FALLING 17-26 JANUARY k | f | b MEZZANINE Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw Street

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One must

One must read Henri Cole. KIRBY’s QUEER POETRY CLASS WEDNESDAYS BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 11 EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW

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KFB CHAPBOOK CLUB TUESDAY

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“I dream so much of body.”

View this post on Instagram Third meeting of @knifeforkbook 's #ChapbookClub went fantastic! Thanks to all those who came to read @travisharpie 's "Sinister Queer Agenda". Also, @___angelfish___ was exuding Daryll Hannah from Blade Runner!!! A post shared by Khashayar Mohammadi (Kramer) (@dearkestrel) on Mar 26, 2019 at 2:58pm PDT UP NEXT: TUESDAY APRIL 30TH […]

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CATHERINE GRAHAM “THE SHORT POEM” WORKSHOP MAY 25TH

  KFB POETRY LAB WELCOMES “Graham’s poems are sparely worded but full of evocative images that vividly convey a wide range of emotion, from passion to grief.” —CBC Books “Master of the short poem.” – Kirby CATHERINE GRAHAM THE SHORT POEM WORKSHOP Compression, image, metaphor, voice—there are many routes to the short poem. How does it […]

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Tremble

“On hearing of a powerful love tremble and be movedlike an aesthete.” – Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Hearing of Love”, 1910. Cavafy Archive. pic.twitter.com/OgmIHVbNpx — C.P. Cavafy (@CCavafy) February 26, 2019 READING CAVAFY w/KIRBY TOMORROW NIGHT #KFBPOETRYLAB

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“Remember, Body… Body, remember”

Wednesday night, Cavafians, we return, "lost, to the same fatal pleasure," reading @EvanPJones @anstrutherpress "The Drawing, the Ship, the Afternoon" KIRBY @itsakirby READING CAVAFY: The Poet of Longinghttps://t.co/9hGhqgPDA1#KFBPoetryLab #cavafy pic.twitter.com/e7nbo8VaRb — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) February 4, 2019