FEB 15TH | KFBFRIDAYS This book is risky, intelligent and generous. A new kind of narrative.—Ali Blythe Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s Trauma Head is a quicksilvered mirror—a startling and exquisite sequence of poems. The ‘unspeakable’ reflected is intensely fierce and sublimely sensual. Difficult, devastating, and meticulously crafted, this work is a rewarding chronicle of persistence through the […]
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Wednesday night, Cavafians, we return, "lost, to the same fatal pleasure," reading @EvanPJones @anstrutherpress "The Drawing, the Ship, the Afternoon" KIRBY @itsakirby READING CAVAFY: The Poet of Longinghttps://t.co/9hGhqgPDA1#KFBPoetryLab #cavafy pic.twitter.com/e7nbo8VaRb — knifeforkbook (@knifeforkbook) February 4, 2019
One delight after another, a magical evening conjuring l’espirit du Marcel Duchamp with POET CHRISTINE WALDE as she unboxes [unleashes] her magnificent BRIDE MACHINE (Flask), joined by AARON TUCKER, opening KFB’s FUCK WINTER WEEK, last night. Walde’s broadsides and chapbooks are currently on display/available at knife | fork | book #KFBFWW THIS AFTERNOON 3PM FROM MONTREAL CATHERINE LALONDE & OANA […]
KFB IN STORE SATURDAY SERIES returned yesterday arriving at a quite unexpected theme of the common appearance of birds in poetry. POETS STEVE MCORMAND, MATTHEW TIERNEY, and MARK TRUSCOTT led a flock of hardy, devoted readers who braved the wintry day. I count myself blessed. knife | fork | book (and dear Nasser, a speedy […]
KFB | THIS SATURDAY | 3PM KFB | IN STORE SATURDAY SERIES MATTHEW TIERNEY MARK TRUSCOTT NASSER HUSSAIN STEVE MCORMOND SATURDAY JANUARY 19TH 3PM knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two […]
BEGINS ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT KIRBY READING CAVAFY: THE POET OF LONGING #KFBPoetryLab #poetry #reading #group trans. Keeley/Sherrard pic.twitter.com/ma5FWVe1j7 — KIRBY (@itsakirby) January 9, 2019
“Tomorrow, the day after, or through the years he’ll write powerful lines, that here was their beginning.” KFB POETRY LAB | BEGINS JAN 16 I’m often asked what bought me to poetry. It opened the door of my closet. O’Hara. Ginsberg. Genet. Lorde. Ashbery. Schuyler. Baldwin. Tenn. Giorno. Cole. Rich. Jordan. Clifton. Gunn. Hemphill. Cooper. […]
KFB FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY Divided from, tucked into. / A part of the whole, / yet severed from the body // that gave her life. / The headless woman floats / in a Cartesian equation. — CAROL BARBOUR “Headless Woman” from Infrangible Di Placido’s plumb line reaches for impossible depths, a sign of extraordinary […]
POETS MICHAEL FLATT + TRAVIS SHARP read poetry by the hearth. Last night. knife | fork | book
As a publisher, each book should feel like, “If we do nothing else, we’ve done this.” ROXANNA BENNETT reads from UNSEEN GARDEN, AbleHamilton Poetry Collective at TYPE Junction, last night. Thank you, Roxanna. Photos: KIRBY
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