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Legendary nights are called into being. What reading elicits is, on neurological imaging, difficult to distinguish from experience itself. We read the word lilac or chai and the olfactory cortex flares. The phrase I pulled the cloth strip through the wire fence will spur the reader’s motor cortex as if it were the movement. Or, […]

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October 4, 2022 I went for a walk with Maureen Scott Harris … it is as if we spend our lives finding clues, fragments, shards, leading or misleading details, chipped tablets written over in a forgotten language. Perhaps they are a counting of cattle, a measuring out of grain. Perhaps they are a praising of […]

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The affair

The love in this room. Poets celebrate poet RUTH ROACH PIERSON this Friday past. A grand affair. knife | fork | book

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Another night

  like no other. The pleasure of good company. Poets LISA RICHTER. JENNIFER LOVEGROVE. MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY  

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Enter May

THIS WEEK | THURSDAY NIGHT POETS MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS + JENNIFER LOVEGROVE + LISA RICHTER MAY 4TH knife | fork | book at Rick’s Cafe | 281 Augusta Avenue | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30  Poetry 7-ish Toronto poet and essayist MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS has published three collections of poetry: A Possible Landscape (Brick Books, 1993), Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press, 2004), […]

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Friends

Colleagues/poets JIM NASON and MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS at knife | fork | book last night. Photos: KIRBY

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Iconic days

“How’s things going, Kirby?” “I’m pretty blissed-out most days.” Poets STUART ROSS and MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS visit knife | fork | book on the same day. (“What blizzard?”) Photos: KIRBY