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“Where poets meet”

knife | fork | book  is thrilled to host California poets LAUREN LEVIN and ERIC SNEATHEN  reading from their debut collections, (The Braid and Snail Poems, respectively) fresh off the press from Krupskaya Books. On The Braid: “is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, […]

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Hopper-esque

Nothing quite like a pretty afternoon Wave. Wave Poetry @ knife | fork | book Photo: KIRBY

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“Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…”

Thanks Dani.  knife | fork | book DANI COUTURE JANUARY 12th at kfb

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Slo-Po

“WHAT?!”* What if the work is just as closed as it looks? What if it just happens to be arranged in words? What if I feel dumb too? And it’s kinda fun? New KFB readers group, led by poet DAVID BRADFORD, tackles the ‘difficult stuff’ of poetry, slowly. “For all that work we’ve been unsure how to […]

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“A poet is plunderphonics.”

A poet is plunderphonics. Living in the surreal but grasping the environment by the neck to what exists. Then it’s translated to words and redefined universally. A poet is not just a stagnant identity itself, nor is it a made identity. Anyone can be a poet as long as one holds firm to expressing themselves. […]

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Powerhouses

KFB Poetry Posse These three rule. Photos: KIRBY

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Locals

But a glimpse of our first month. What it is to be welcomed. Thanks everybody. Thrilled to be here. knife | fork | book @ Rick’s Cafe 281 Augusta Avenue Kensington Market Toronto

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Pairing

  KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT last night at KFB Photos: KIRBY UP NEXT: 11/10 STANFORD CHEUNG. 11/17 LAUREN LEVIN + ERIC SNEATHEN. 11/24 MAUREEN HYNES

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November rain

and our beautiful new reading chair. O so pretty.   knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY  

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Pansies and Monogamy

JONATHAN GARFINKEL Copywright 2016. Jonathan Garfinkel. Printed here by permission of the author.