“Tomorrow, the day after, or through the years he’ll write powerful lines, that here was their beginning.” KFB POETRY LAB | BEGINS JAN 16 I’m often asked what bought me to poetry. It opened the door of my closet. O’Hara. Ginsberg. Genet. Lorde. Ashbery. Schuyler. Baldwin. Tenn. Giorno. Cole. Rich. Jordan. Clifton. Gunn. Hemphill. Cooper. […]
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In his tent, Achillesgrieved with his whole beingand the gods sawhe was a man already dead, a victimof the part that loved,the part that was mortal. ~ Louise Glück (Dying Achilles, Achilleion palace on Corfu) pic.twitter.com/en9SOtP6Mq — 𝒦𝓊𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝒸𝒽𝓉 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒽𝓉𝒷𝒶𝓇 (@desiderium0) December 28, 2018 see also: KIRBY/CAVAFY: The Poet of Longing BEGINS JAN 16TH
What pulls She’s Having A Doris Day together is the sense of honesty about it all, the openness of voice and experience that weaves itself through the eight poems. What Kirby does with their work is important. The poems speak of how a search for personal identity is often fraught with challenges, but is just […]
Contrary to what cannot be found in a country’s major newspaper, it was a great year for poetry, Canadian and elsewhere. What do I read/look for? Did the work accomplish what it set out to do? Does it surprise/delight? Stay with me? As a publisher/programmer the measure is “if this is the one thing we […]
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Spellbound
If we’ve done nothing else, we’ve done this. – KIRBY KFB POETRY LAB SERIES LAUNCHES, SOARS with DAMIAN ROGERS HOA NGUYEN CACONRAD last night. Uncommon. Unforgettable. Beauteous.
“I know that I am cowardly and am unable to act. Therefore I confine myself to words. But I do not think my words are needless. Someone else will act. But my many words—the words of a coward—will facilitate their deed. My words clear the ground.” – C.P. Cavafy, October 1902. pic.twitter.com/Owd8D7zfr7 — C.P. Cavafy […]
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The Poets [updated July 2018]
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