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Poetry is the opposite of escape but makes this world endurable. —CAConrad @CAConrad88 — KC Trommer (@kctrommer) April 25, 2018

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Friday Night Poetry

  Night is relevant still / Answer my call A glorious outing celebrating poet JACLYN PIUDIK’s full-length debut, TO SUTURE WHAT FRAYS (Kelsay Books, 2017) w/ special guest poet MARK GOLDSTEIN, last night. Resplendent. This is how we launch. knife | fork | book

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Greetings

NEW Poet Warrior (Artist: LEO SCOPACASA Orbital Arts Gallery) graces our space, greets you.  knife | fork | book

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GTMF

Light of my life, remember / that warm February morning / that charming carcass / on the cracked ice k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY GARRY THOMAS MORSE SAFETY SAND (Talonbooks) TORONTO LAUNCH with special guest poet SONIA DI PLACIDO FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, […]

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Almost everything

To be queer (like being a poet) is to reinvent almost everything — Alex Dimitrov (@alexdimitrov) December 22, 2017 ALEX DIMITROV TOGETHER AND BY OURSELVES (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) KFB ‘Gems’ of 2017

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On dating

  RUTH ROACH PIERSON   My Late Night Date with an MRI Machine    I’m lying on my back in a space like the interior of a grounded submarine or the stomach of a giant metallic nematode, my ears, though plugged and muffed, unable to escape the steady blasts of sound like the gravelly throbbing […]

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Welcome, reader

POET, TORBEN ROBERTSON, in the upcoming Winter Supplement of Hart House Review, selecting something new to inspire.  knife | fork | book

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A day in the life

A delight to sell books in support of Toronto Poet Laureate, ANNE MICHAELS, and her new collection, ALL WE SAW (McClelland & Stewart, 2017) at Arts and Letters Club yesterday. Photos: KIRBY

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S I N A

  I am no lady. I will rise and rise again out of the burning air. You can eat my genius, rare. k | f | b  FRIDAYS | SPECIAL EVENT SINA QUEYRAS FRIDAY DECEMBER 29TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) […]

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‘there is only bliss’

k | f | b recommends ANDRE BAGOO PITCH LAKE Peepal Tree Press, 2017. ANDRE BAGOO is a Trinidadian poet and writer. He is the author of Trick Vessels (Shearsman Books, 2012) and BURN (Shearsman Books, 2015) which was longlisted for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His poetry has appeared at journals such as Almost Island, Boston Review, Caribbean […]