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KFB FEATURED POET | DEC 18

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 […]

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Fan’s 2018 Picks

    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 […]

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he looked up at me

  “I know you” JONATHAN PAPPO context, na // collapse LAUNCH. Last night. knife | fork | book

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NARDONE KOTECHA LA MELIA

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 […]

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FLATT SHARP

KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY II. We get home referring to some shitty moldy apartment we take off our clothes referring to the clearance rack at Goodwill we lay down in our bed unsexed and sexless the ritual of getting ready took too long for both of us and after working our collective seven jobs […]

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DECEMBERFUL!

Dear KFB’rs I’m happy to say, this December is our biggest, most festive month ever at the shop! Offerings from our new KFB Poetry Lab continue with Montreal-based poet JESSICA BEBENEK launching her newest k2tog (knit together) with a Knitting Circle Sat Dec 15th, followed by HOA NGUYEN celebrating the 40th Anniversary of BERNADETTE MAYER’s Midwinter Day with a writing workshop on the very same day, Sat […]

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Purple

View this post on Instagram A post shared by KFB (@knifeforkbook) Thanks for making our KFB POETRY LAB inaugural weekend a SOLD OUT affair, with special thanks to HOA NGUYEN DAMIAN ROGERS and CACONRAD holding such an intimate space to invite us in. Also, thanks to AUDRA SIMMONS/THE DARK SIDE STUDIO we have the privilege […]

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1 DEC 18

KFB | THIS SATURDAY 3PM MATINEE   JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL | RYAN FITZPATRICK | CAROLINE SZPAK KFB | THIS SATURDAY 7PM (Doors 6:30)   JONATHAN PAPPO CONTEXT, NA COLLAPSE LAUNCH w/Special Guest APRIL ALIERMO knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Access: We are a second floor […]

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Takeaway

my biggest takeaway being something @CAConrad88 said, taken from their newest book While Standing in Line for Death, which went something like “by healing yourself you are healing the earth” which may be the most profound thing I have ever heard — steph sinclair (@stephiswriting) November 24, 2018 Thanks Steph – Kb