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Aaron

  Poet AARON KREUTER on fire last night at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“We are for fervour.”

“The heart allows us because we bring the words to its door… The heart is wise.” from SHANE NEILSON THE MANIFESTO OF FERVOURISM.  A Ryga Chapbook, 2015. Okanagan College.

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Get some

“In Jim Nason‘s fifth collection of poetry, Touch Anywhere to Begin (Signature Editions, 2016), poems are set in a physical world where full-throttle desire commingles with love, loss and grief. Although death is ever present — death of a father, death of a friend — there is a life-affirming/mystical quality at the core of the […]

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Yes

“I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?” ~ Langston Hughes pic.twitter.com/CVU5DaNbjN — Paul Holdengraber (@holdengraber) December 9, 2016 Our new mission statement, “to become good / And beautiful and kind.” knife | fork | book

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Riveting

  A breathtaking reading by KATE SUTHERLAND last night. knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“Poets never die”

Parc du Portugal, Montreal  [click on image to enlarge] see also: “Then we were quiet” by Jonathan Garfinkel Photo: KIRBY

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Rosily

Rosily I squander myself*  LISA ROBERTSON 3 SUMMERS Our current bestseller from Coach House Books Find it here. knife | fork | book *(Is there any other way?)

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Poet

MAUREEN HYNES at knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“presences”

“What is left out of these images is the idea of contact, and contact, of the most intimate sort, is what poetry can accomplish. Poems do not endure as objects but as presences. When you read anything worth remembering, you liberate a human voice; you release into the world again a companion spirit. I read […]

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