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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 […]

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  Dear Kestrel, I keep writing my name on the cocktail napkin my real name that is the one that’s hard to pronounce the one that’s been mythologized the one being whispered behind my back   I’ve lost myself Kes please come identify me from the lineup   KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI DEAR KESTREL NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-SALE […]

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Good sign

This beauty, designed and delivered by “maker-of-things” JESSICA JOY HIEMSTRA, PAUL, and BRANDY RYAN. Just in time.  knife | fork | book  

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POET-IN-STORE

Wonderful afternoon talking poetry with poet R. KOLEWE in store today. His recommendations included SONIA DI PLACIDO Flesh (Guernica) CONCETTA PRINCIPE This Real (Pedlar) STEPHEN COLLIS Once in Blockadia (Talon) DOMINIQUE RUSSELL Instruction for Dreamers CHRISTINE STEWART Treaty 6 Deixis (Talon) MARK TRUSCOTT Branches (Book*hug). We recommend R. KOLEWE silence, then (knife | fork | […]

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“There is only one”

“There is only one, will only ever be one, whose loss can destroy you. When you search your soul, you know this is so.” – ANNE MICHAELS from “QUEEN STREET EAST” in UNITED MARBLE, a work-in-progress with photographs by GEOFFREY JAMES Last night held a touch of the divine. To be privy to a work-in-progress […]

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What delights

“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.” – Hugo von Hofmannsthal “When I laugh from my belly, it’s a good day.” – Kirby People often ask how I got into this poetry gig, or my own inquiry, “What keeps me here?” The simple answer. It delights me. […]

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Julie, Kim, & Sam’s

It felt like home. JULIE MORRISSY, KIM FAHNER, SAMUEL GUEST, fellow poets, family, friends gather to launch, read, hear, share, celebrate. Last night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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TWO LAUREATES: GEOFFREY JAMES + ANNE MICHAELS MARCH 22ND

KFB | MARCH 22ND TO PHOTO LAUREATE GEOFFREY JAMES TO POET LAUREATE ANNE MICHAELS ONE UNFORGETTABLE EVENING FRIDAY MARCH 22ND knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Start 7 PLEASE NOTE: LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE. NO ENTRY ONCE PROGRAM […]

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The joy that is

Saturdays. Poets KLARA DU PLESSIS (EKKE Palimpsest Press) + JIM JOHNSTONE (ed. THE NEXT WAVE: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry Anstruther Press) spend some time pouring over the goods.  knife | fork | book