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View this post on Instagram It’s National Poetry Month! I know @itsakirby has big plans at @knifeforkbook which I am excited for. But, Kirby is also a great poet! Here is She’s Having a Doris Day (with poem when you swipe through) – can’t wait for the new full manuscript! * * * * * […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: KFB SET TO LAUNCH NEW ANNUAL—NOT YOUR BEST —PREMIERE ISSUE GUEST EDITED BY ERIC SCHMALTZ I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected as Guest Editor for the first installation of Not Your Best, an annual magazine published by knife|fork|book (Toronto). Intended as a magazine that eschews the idea of “best,” I understand […]
I’m thrilled to announce a new chapbook imprint at knife | fork |book: wQr, What Queer Reading, with myself acting as editor and Kirby as publisher. We’re devoted to publishing queer poets of colour, and we’re looking for work in which queerness is expressed alongside but also beyond identity: in the shifting of selfhood into cosmic matter; […]
It’s official, we’re moving. After a glorious, unforgettable first year of revelry at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington, the cafe itself has been sold, and Toronto’s Poetry-Only bookshop is now seeking a new home. Hundreds of you, both in person and abroad, have shared your unabashed love for KFB. This is our first ‘ask.’ We need […]
DALE SMITH DALE SMITH SONS OCTOBER 2017 from k | f | b SUBSCRIBE NOW DALE SMITH is a poet, critic, and scholar of poetry and rhetorical theory on the faculty of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the editor with Robert J. Bertholf of An Open Map: The Robert Duncan / Charles […]
KFB book designer (and all-around sweetheart) NORMAN NEHMETALLAH is successfully rebounding, up, and on the mend. Thanks for asking. knife | fork | book