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“bearers of the urgent form”

KFB THIS SATURDAY 3PM View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michael Nardone (@mdnardone) “My hope has always been for poets…to be bearers of the urgent form. Nardone’s collections seems to carry that urgency, seems to know artifice for what it is—a holding pattern for thought’s flight, so that it can land in […]

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Friday Night QUEER

Get your QUEER on. FRIDAY JULY 27TH   THOM GILL | ALEXA WINSTANLEY-SMITH | BRANDY RYAN | KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI   wQr WHAT QUEER READING SERIES HOSTED BY FAN WU knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio | 244 Augusta Avenue | 2nd Floor | Kensington Market | Toronto Doors 6:30 Poetry 7 Access: We are a second floor walk-up with two all-gender washrooms. […]

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KFB SUBSCRIPTION SERIES JULY/AUG SELECTION

K | F | B  2018 SUBCRIPTION SERIES JULY/AUGUST SELECTION   Ardently edited by Anstruther Press’ JIM JOHNSTONE, I’d be hard-pressed to add to this essential list of the current, many who have graced us reading here at KFB. Highly recommended for every academic, school and public library worldwide. A new primer for poets and […]

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Queer space

touching is not actually touching (fans push the hot air around us) touching is the act of atoms resisting each other touching is resistance TANIS FRANCO, from QUARRY (University of Calgary Press, 2018) wQr [What Queer Reading], KFB new imprint Reading Series debuts last night with a special focus on QUEER SPACE/S featuring ZOE SHARP, BRIAN […]

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BENNETT x 2

k | f | b  2017-18 SUBCRIPTION SERIES APRIL SELECTION ROXANNA BENNETT UNSEEN GARDEN (knife | fork | book, 2018) w/ THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE (Tightrope Books) For the first time, we’ve chosen one of our own titles, ROXANNA BENNETT’ UNSEEN GARDEN as April’s Selection for KFB’s Subscription Series. We’re including Roxanna’s debut collection, THE UNCERTAINTY […]

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Subscribe | Support | Savour

k | f | b Subscription Series February|18 Selection: KAVEH AKBAR Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin UK Edition) We’ve opened up our k | f | b Subscription Series so you can now join any time of the year for a full year. Previous titles selected have been SAM SAX Madness (Penguin), CANISIA LUBRIN Voodoo Hypothesis […]

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A clearing

Love stills. MARTHA BAILLIE, JACK DAVIS, CONCETTA PRINCIPE astound. Last night.  knife | fork |book

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October’s selection

“Voodoo Hypothesis is an interior in motion: a gorgeous, searching intelligence. It is a womb/tomb of luminous inquiry. A semi-permeable ship where your mind is in concert with Lubrin’s forward propagating lineation, a participatory dreamscape that leads you back to your own culpability. This is a work that reads you, too.” – Liz Howard, author of Infinite Citizen […]

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Daytrippin’

A day (and, what a day. Thanks, Lynne). That’s all she needed.  knife | fork | book Pictured: Lynne DeSilva-Johnson. Ruby. Group Huddle 7 at TOPOS Bookstore & Cafe: CAConrad. James G. Southcott. Omari Douglin. Rachel James. Tommy Pico. Not pictured: Parker Menzimer. Photos: KIRBY p.s. I love how poets are there for one another.

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Why we’re here

ERIC SCHMALTZ, ELIANNA LEV, and MIKE LALA highlight our Thursday Night Poets Series last night. knife | fork | book UP NEXT at KFB: April 11th BIBLIOASIS SHOWCASE  MOLLY PEACOCK | PATRICIA YOUNG | NOAH WARENESS. April 13th THE INCONVENIENTS. April 20th WORDS (ON) PAGES. April 21st  ULRIKKA GERNES | CASSIDY McFADZEAN. April 27th CAConrad | Jeff KIRBY. April 28th & 29th | CAConradWorkshops: New Moon […]