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Notley: “Why do anything?”

Why should poetry or anyone or anything do anything? But poetry is the art closest to existing itself. We are somewhat measureable, vibrate and tremble, and are beautiful.◦ — Alice Notley (@alice_notley) June 26, 2019

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KFB CHAPBOOK CLUB TUESDAY

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KFB SEASON FINALE WEEKEND JUNE 14 & 15

KFB | JUNE 14 & 15       FRIDAY JUNE 14TH PAOLA FERRANTE WHAT TO WEAR WHEN SURVIVING A LION ATTACK (MANSFIELD PRESS) KIRBY THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF (PERMANENT SLEEP PRESS) JASON PURCELL A PLACE MORE HOSPITABLE (ANSTRUTHER PRESS)       SATURDAY JUNE 15TH TORONTO LAUNCH BOLA OPALEKE  SKELETON OF A RUINED SONG (ICE FLOE PRESS) […]

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JES!

    “We adore you!” 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Winner JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI STINTZI’s KFB CHAPBOOK THE MACHETE TOURIST ON SALE NOW $5 ONLINE at SHOPKFB

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“They strike the ear as an otherworldly invocation.”

"the energy of [Lor's] lines derives from their lilting rhythm and the proximity of their dream-like, undefined images. They strike the ear as an otherworldly invocation." – Jeremy Luke Hill @thepuritan PRATHNA LOR 7, 2@knifeforkbook @TOWNthestore https://t.co/O5sg6LykHb pic.twitter.com/EgW7jxfcQS — wQr (@whatqueerreadn) May 24, 2019 "Caetano’s PLEASURE DOME POEMS is robust, full of energy and word […]

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Blessed

Wondrous. Ardent. Full. Poets ANTON POOLES MONSTER 36, ÁNGES CSERHÁTI UNREMEMBERED, and SHANE NEILSON NEW BRUNSWICK deliver at their Toronto launch last night. Thanks to the presses Biblioasis, Frog Hollow, Anstruther, host Jim Johnstone, our friends Joseph and Leo at Orbital Arts Gallery and all who held this space dear.  knife | fork | book

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CARTER ROSS EISENSTEIN JUNE 7TH

KFB FRIDAYS | JUNE 7TH   LAUREN CARTER  ELIZABETH ROSS  PAULA EISENSTEIN FRIDAY JUNE 7TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 No late entry once program begins Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender […]

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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

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KFB TRIPLE THREAT LAUNCH WEEKEND

KFB | FRIDAY MAY 3RD 7PM     “In Q&A Adrienne Gruber annotates the condition of the pre- and post-partum body, training her ruthless poetic eye on division: cell by cell, mother from daughter, fact from misguided historical tendency. Is this a love poem / or a poem of grief? / When we make something / we lose, she […]

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SHIRLEY CAMIA “MERCY” MAY 10TH

KFB | FRIDAY MAY 10TH   SHIRLEY CAMIA MERCY TORONTO LAUNCH w/ ADRIAN DE LEON + PATRIA RIVERA FRIDAY MAY 10TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 | Poetry 7 No late entry once program begins. Access: […]