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The courtship continues

  NEW. CARL PHILLIPS WILD IS THE WIND (Farrar, 2018).  In store now.  knife | fork | book

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True for me

too.  knife | fork | book (Thanks Wendy. Poets.)

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Meanwhile, just up the street

It’s a big week.  knife | fork | book

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Jamesian

  Their relationship consisted In discussing if it existed. THOM GUNN Jamesian from Collected Poems (Farrar, 1995). Photo: KIRBY

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Just up the street

  A robust 14th Annual Meeting of The Dead Poets Society @ Supermarket last night, presented by The Art Bar,  The Rowers Pub Reading Series, and Tightrope Books. Hosted by David Clink with Heather Wood. Wonderful to see the rich herstory of Kensington Market continue to thrive as a literary/poetry hub. Pictured: Heather Wood. Ilyana […]

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“a dreamy oasis”

Recent place settings. knife | fork | book

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]

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“Anew and over again.”

“I prefer to not memorize my texts. Instead, I like my poems to be improvisatory like how I often cut every line and stanza of my poems and rearrange them in a different order. It still remains a wonderful poem to me.” STANFORD CHEUNG’s reading copy of Any Seam or Needlework (The Operating System, 2016) […]

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Slo-Po

“WHAT?!”* What if the work is just as closed as it looks? What if it just happens to be arranged in words? What if I feel dumb too? And it’s kinda fun? New KFB readers group, led by poet DAVID BRADFORD, tackles the ‘difficult stuff’ of poetry, slowly. “For all that work we’ve been unsure how to […]

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Pansies and Monogamy

JONATHAN GARFINKEL Copywright 2016. Jonathan Garfinkel. Printed here by permission of the author.