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Trio

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY SHANNON BRAMER PRECIOUS ENERGY CATHERINE GRAHAM THE CELERY FOREST JESSICA HIEMSTRA THE HOLY NOTHING FRIDAY JANUARY 19TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks (we’re shoeless). Poet and […]

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A whirlwind

“Kirby, would you come in January?”* Okay, she fell in love with this place. A warm, welcoming evening at TREE READING SERIES (Ottawa) with PEARL PIRIE hosting a full house at BLACK SQUIRREL BOOKS & ESPRESSO BAR (a haven) with featured poets MARGO LAPIERRE  (Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes, Guernica Editions, 2017) & KIRBY (She’s Having a […]

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Surrealist extravaganza

SHANNON MAGUIRE DAVID BATEMAN ROBERT PRIEST BEATRIZ HAUSNER SHERI-D WILSON hold court to a full house of hardy poets, “the coldest January 5th on record.” Where were the poets? Keeping the hearth.  knife | fork | book KFB UPCOMING: JAN 9 KFB | KIRBY ‘DORIS’ IN OTTAWA |TREE READING SERIES | MARGO LAPIERRE JAN 12  SLO-PO w/ DAVID BRADFORD (reading […]

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NEW KFB imprint announced

I’m thrilled to announce a new chapbook imprint at knife | fork |book: wQr, What Queer Reading, with myself acting as editor and Kirby as publisher. We’re devoted to publishing queer poets of colour, and we’re looking for work in which queerness is expressed alongside but also beyond identity: in the shifting of selfhood into cosmic matter; […]

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Realness

k | f | b FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY PEDLAR PRESS BOOK LAUNCH CONCETTA PRINCIPE THIS REAL JACK DAVIS FAUNICS w/ MARTHA BAILLIE FRIDAY DECEMBER 15TH knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks (we’re shoeless). CONCETTA PRINCIPE […]

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The night, she just got bigger

JUST IN SURPRISE GUEST POET JUDITH GOLDMAN (agon, 2017 @the_OS_) joins LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON @OnlyWhatICan + SARAH PINDER @compasspoints TONIGHT! k | f | b Doors 6:30 Poetry 7ish#poetrydarlings #KFBFridays #wearsocks #crazygood #nottobemissed pic.twitter.com/gwHH5UJpmC — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) November 24, 2017 JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of agon (The Operating System, 2017), Vocoder (Roof, 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O […]

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Typical Tuesdays

Tuesdays (and every day) are for poets.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Socks. Poets, Torben Robertson, Richard Keith , and Susan Alexander  (on Torben’s 25th). Poet Khashayar Mohammadi. The shop late afternoon. Bookselling at poet, Anne Michaels, reading from her latest, All We Saw (McClelland & Stewart) at the Heliconian Club Salon Series. Kirby and […]

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“this sweet special place!!!!”

everything about this makes me love living in toronto https://t.co/cLhAklSabj — Damian Rogers (@damianrogers) October 25, 2017 infinitely grateful for the existence of this sweet special place!!!! https://t.co/nPEOtOQotM — emma healey (@emmafromtoronto) October 25, 2017 Me and THE DOGS @marydimichele @GillisSusan @knifeforkbook pic.twitter.com/3ccm1ow3m9 — David Bradford (@BartleBeeps) October 29, 2017 POET @DBernierCormier (“Englishing” @froghollowpress) on […]

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This is how we move

FISHER SMALL & FINE PRESS FAIR JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL AARON TUCKER ANDREW MCEWAN ANAHITA JAMALI RAD DANIELLE LAFRANCE  THE FOLD BRAMPTON BOOK BASH MARK GOLDSTEIN PHIL HALL ERIN MOURE DAVID BRADFORD ELIANNA LEV DALE SMITH RYAN ECKES SUE LANDERS JIMMY MCINNES JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY GARY BARWIN HUGH THOMAS JAMES LINDSEY A.F. MORITZ JANE MUNRO SUSAN GILLIS […]

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Forever changed

There are certain evenings/readings that, when it happens, transform, enlarge, shape a space, a before and after, if you will. Last night was such an occasion. Mary, Susan, Jan, Jane, YOKO’S DOGS, thanks for making our new space, home.  knife | fork | book Pictured: MARY DI MICHELE. SUSAN GILLIS. JANE MUNRO. JAN CONN. YOKO’S […]