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Jessica Joy Hiemstra Shannon Bramer Ben Gallagher James Lindsay Noah Wareness Khashayar Mohammadi Ally Fleming Kate Sutherland Jacob McArthur Mooney Conor McDonnell Fan Wu David Seymour A. Light Zachary Torben Robertson Doyali Islam Ben Meyerson A. F. Moritz Host: Kirby   “The Sparrow is more than a selected poems; it is also a single vast poem, […]

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The Little Poetry Shop That Could*

You may have noticed we’ve taken a little breather these past two Fridays. That’s about to change… MAY 25  BIG AL’S LOVEFEST POETS READ A.F. MORITZ TO MORITZ CELEBRATING THE SPARROW (ANANSI) JUNE 1  JARED STANLEY  | BEN MEYERSON JUNE 8  DANI COUTURE | DAVID JAMES BROCK | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY  A. LIGHT ZACHARY CANISIA LUBRIN JUNE 15  JIMMY MCINNES | JAMES LINDSAY | JOHN NYMAN | JIM JOHNSTONE  […]

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POETRY IS REVOLUTION

“WORK TO LIBERATE THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IN ALL MEN” You Say You Want A Revolution: Remembering the 60s through Sep 1 The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building NYPL Photo: KIRBY (She’s still an old liberationist at heart.)

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On the boards

Just a sampling. Find it here. knife | fork | book No, we don’t have everything in store, (some titles sell out, quickly; there’s a lot of poetry being published) and we aim to be your source for poetry. We readily fufill special orders and offer the best prices we can on US/International titles (and […]

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Chirp

a ‘lil sparrow told me. Mark the date. knife | fork | book

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#poweredbypoets

  now known as an angelic upstart from coast to coast in Canada, [knife fork book] started out in 2016 and has blossomed into one of the top must-read venues for poets from all over North America. Nathaniel G. Moore, Verbicide Magazine 99+ randomly selected photographs, a flurry of the past sixteen weeks, including our KICKASS […]

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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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Joyboy

  beautiful @itsakirby of @knifeforkbook handles each and every poetry book with love. taken last night at the touching and endlessly inspiring Poetry in Voice (@PIV_LVP) Recitation Finals last night. I was there with my daughter, Sadie. Her eyes were lit the whole evening. pic.twitter.com/W43dbBcHHf — Shannon Bramer (@brokencloudco) April 20, 2018 Thank you to […]

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Launch pad

SATURDAY 3PM DAVID ALEXANDER launches his Nightwood Editions debut, AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN with special guests, LILLIAN NECAKOV + JEFF LATOSIK. 7PM ZED PRESS storm Toronto with two new chapbooks/poets HANAN HAZIME AORTA + KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI MOE’S SKIN Poetry. Here.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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“It’s Friday night.”

Grateful for voices in/against the dark last night @knifeforkbook, for their “social forces, like a woman using a staircase.” The energies of that space and those poets are food for the weekend… — brandy ryan (@bonthebrink) April 14, 2018 “I’m on my way to see Daphne Marlatt read at @knifeforkbook,” This opening line will remain […]