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“I came to read.”

ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 …and read, she did. 14 March 2020. The evening before the “lockdown.” All of her other readings for the launch of For The Ride (Penguin, 2020) had been cancelled. Her appearance here sold out (about twenty, twenty-five came that night). Alice took the stage and. It was fire. This ended up being […]

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“In Praise of the Mayfly.”

“Let’s do it for the poets.” “There is no better way to describe the chapbook, broadside, and zine publishers scattered across Canada than transient. The stop/start nature of the micropress “industry” is a solid reality. Presses come and go partially due to the lack of financial incentive—mostly micropresses are self-funded labours of love—and, more impactfully, […]

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Best friends.

“You need a best friend in poetry to survive.” – Henri Cole

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Iconic

Alice.

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SUE GOYETTE

The True Names of Birds. Undone. Outskirts. Ocean. The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl. Penelope. So many readers, poets, students of award-winning poet, SUE GOYETTE endear her with the title “Master of the Metaphor.” I’ve been an admirer for years now, and it’s a grand delight to finally welcome her here at KFB Wednesday night. […]

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To all three

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The most beautiful thing imaginable happened today

Poet DANIEL COWPER came from BC and read to us from his glorious debut, GROTESQUE TENDERNESS (McGill-QueensUP, 2019). Such good fortune. knife | fork | book

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“more fluid, less (f)rigid”

Q: With two full-length collections (including your forthcoming Gordon Hill Press title) as well as a chapbook [UNSEEN GARDEN, knife fork book, 2018] under your belt, how do you feel your work has developed? Where do you see your work headed? BENNETT: I think it’s developed less concern with being ‘correct’: are all the commas […]

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Kramer

KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI by ALEX PROCHSHENKO

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So I go

'So I go, drunk and melancholy, lunatic, guitarist, poet poor man in a dream Hunting for God in the mists. —#AntonioMachado (Rexroth translation) #FridayMotivation #FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/DkmA2BllnK — Yahia Lababidi (@YahiaLababidi) May 10, 2019 More Machado