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“A man I loved…”

Hewanted / just to keephis earthliness with him / In hellthis is the only prerequisite —@JaymeRingleb https://t.co/51hQ7HpMK8 — POETRY magazine (@poetrymagazine) February 9, 2019

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It’s in the details

    AN OPEN LOVE LETTER TO UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE It’s always, always, always, in the details. That’s what you have shown us, time and time again. The ‘little finds’ that bring such delight and pleasure to your publications, a ‘hidden’ numbered letterpress postcard, the way your subscription boxes are packed with such attention/intention (thank […]

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MyOther day

  Reading ROSA ALCALA MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017). Photos: KIRBY

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Welcome, reader

POET, TORBEN ROBERTSON, in the upcoming Winter Supplement of Hart House Review, selecting something new to inspire.  knife | fork | book

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What keeps me here

Feeling the love of the earth,he returned home to himself. pic.twitter.com/ZuxRFwxJwu — Henri Cole (@ColeHenri) July 31, 2017 Pretty much every day, this man touches my heart. Thanks, Henri.   knife | fork | book

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‘NDN’

  ‘What rhymes with fuck off and die?’ TOMMY PICO NATURE POEM TIN HOUSE, 2017. THIS TUESDAY FOOD 4 THOT: LIVE LAUNCH PARTY 

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Burning up

What you’re sayin’ is — we’re getting screwed. I’ll take mine dancing my tits off, thank you.” KIRBY We’re giving $5 off [yes to move some books, and also] in hopes you will donate to any #resist cause of your choice. knife | fork | book

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Rx

Prescriptions filled here. Daily.  knife | fork | book including some beautiful new chapbooks from Baseline , Anstruther, Desert Pets, Sunny Outside, metatron, words (on) pages, Invisible, Puddles of Sky, Pearl Pirie, Apt. 9, Nomados, and more! Photo: KIRBY

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Love letter

  I don’t know how or when I met poet Maureen Hynes. I believe she actually met me. Because that’s what Maureen Hynes does. She meets others, greets them, with a geniune decided interest, a curiosity and warmth that includes you, brings you into the fold. I may not remember how or when, but I […]

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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 […]