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House party

A delight to welcome MAWENZI HOUSE and publisher NURJEHAN AZIZ to celebrate their latest, ARCHNA SAHNI ANOTHER NIRVANA, and AHILAN THEN THERE WERE NO WITNESSES read in Tamil with English translation by GEETHA SUKUMARAN, last night.  knife | fork | book

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J’s

JIM JOHNSTONE. JAMES LINDSAY. JOHN NYMAN. JIMMY MCINNES. New work and love poems. Last night.   knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Such times

MARCELA HUERTA | A. LIGHT ZACHARY  | CANISIA LUBRIN | ADÈLE BARCLAY All on a Saturday Night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Poet’s house

  “One of the coolest places in the city to read.” – DJB DANI COUTURE  DAVID JAMES BROCK  ANNICK MACASKILL on a Friday night.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY  

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The Listening

Relax. This specific emptiness (the desert’s) is not about you, it’s about nobody, but not about you specifically   JARED STANLEY, EARS (Nightboat Books)   Last night’s rendezvous with poetry, poets BEN MEYERSON HOLCOCENE and JARED STANLEY conjure, mesmerize.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Lovefest

The love of poets. The poetry of A. F. Moritz. A grand night. knife | fork | book The poets: Jessica Joy Hiemstra Shannon Bramer Ben Gallagher James Lindsay Noah Wareness Khashayar Mohammadi Kate Sutherland Jacob McArthur Mooney Conor McDonnell Fan Wu David Seymour A. Light Zachary Torben Robertson Doyali Islam Ben Meyerson Paul Vermeersch A. F. Moritz Kirby Recording: DAVID SEYMOUR reads On Distinction by A. F. MORITZ which opened the […]

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“It’s Friday night.”

Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend… — brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018 “I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,” This opening line will remain […]

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PoMo kickoff

Last night’s wondrous National PoMo kickoff with Book*hug poets LIZ WORTH and JULIE MORRISSY reading in the salon. knife | fork | book

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Marveling

But tonight, I’m marveling in this body a moment, * I don’t quite know how it happens when nights like last seem magically called into being. Actually, yes, I do know. You all came. Three extraordinary new works/chapbooks by ROXANNA BENNETT, LAUREN TURNER, JOHN STINTZI, and a breathtakingly beautiful broadside from DALE SMITH SONS (our […]

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Mesmerized

An idyllic setting. DAVID PETER CLARK and JONATHAN PAPPO in tandem fill the space to appreciative listeners, performing SPELL (Swimmer’s Group). Last night. knife | fork | book Find SPELL by DAVID PETER CLARK at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY