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KFB SEASON FINALE WEEKEND JUNE 14 & 15

KFB | JUNE 14 & 15       FRIDAY JUNE 14TH PAOLA FERRANTE WHAT TO WEAR WHEN SURVIVING A LION ATTACK (MANSFIELD PRESS) KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF (PERMANENT SLEEP PRESS) JASON PURCELL A PLACE MORE HOSPITABLE (ANSTRUTHER PRESS)       SATURDAY JUNE 15TH TORONTO LAUNCH BOLA OPALEKE  SKELETON OF A RUINED SONG (ICE FLOE PRESS) […]

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This. Moment.

  “These two. Totally why I’m a gayboy.” FAN WU. CODY CAETANO. KIRBY. THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF LAUNCH

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Friday

Poets visiting from Vancouver. Totoro. Poet in Store, Mark Truscott. His picks. Jim Johnstone. The Dark Side Studio. Audra’s presence everyday. (Brandy Ryan, not pictured, takes me out for a drink).  A young photographer in the market takes a picture of Joseph, Leo and I. Adrian De Leon. Patria Rivera. Shirley Camia. Brilliant readings at […]

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“There is no half-measure / to praise / or grief”

She’s launched. KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF Permanent Sleep Press last Saturday Night, with PAUL-DANIEL TORRES CODY CAETANO JIM JOHNSTONE (Host) DON PYLE (Sound) FAN WU & CODY (Dancers) BUY THE BOOK IN STORE at KFB and PERMENENT SLEEP PRESS BOOKSHOP (Parkdale) and ONLINE at shopKFB KIRBY UP NEXT MAY 16TH BIBLIOASIS (WINDSOR) w/ […]

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TONIGHT 8PM KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqD6ehaHKZG/ KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF SATURDAY MAY 4TH 8PM w/ Special Guest Poets CODY CAETANO + PAUL-DANIEL TORRES knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 1/2 hour before event. We start on time. No entry once […]

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KFB TRIPLE THREAT LAUNCH WEEKEND

KFB | FRIDAY MAY 3RD 7PM     “In Q&A Adrienne Gruber annotates the condition of the pre- and post-partum body, training her ruthless poetic eye on division: cell by cell, mother from daughter, fact from misguided historical tendency. Is this a love poem / or a poem of grief? / When we make something / we lose, she […]

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KIRBY TURNS 60

“What can we do for Kirby’s 60th?” #EarthDay2019 #22April19 “You can contribute five dollars monthly (or whatever amount) at KFB’s Patreon, cause she’s got work to do.” – @itskirby https://t.co/EJ58nUHVP0#thankyou p.s. and wish her a happy 60th pic.twitter.com/NZG7ZVEabF — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) April 1, 2019

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“My joys and my sorrowsand everything that I have down herewill pass quickly.” – C.P. Cavafy, “The Four Walls Of My Room”, translated by Rae Dalven. #poetry pic.twitter.com/MqTD7ICElp — C.P. Cavafy (@CCavafy) April 21, 2019

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KFB | NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019

KFB | NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019 FRIDAY APRIL 5TH 7PM AYESHA CHATTERJEE GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE CATHERING GRAHAM KIRBY KATHRYN MOCKLER EARTHY ANECDOTES SATURDAY APRIL 6TH 8PM LYNN CROSBIE 10TH ANNIVERSARY LIAR   FRIDAY APRIL 12TH 2-4PM POET-IN-STORE JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY FRIDAY APRIL 12TH 7PM MARCELLO DI CINTIO PALESTINE IN POETRY    Marcello Di Cintio’s book Pay […]