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“They strike the ear as an otherworldly invocation.”

"the energy of [Lor's] lines derives from their lilting rhythm and the proximity of their dream-like, undefined images. They strike the ear as an otherworldly invocation." – Jeremy Luke Hill @thepuritan PRATHNA LOR 7, 2@knifeforkbook @TOWNthestore https://t.co/O5sg6LykHb pic.twitter.com/EgW7jxfcQS — wQr (@whatqueerreadn) May 24, 2019 "Caetano’s PLEASURE DOME POEMS is robust, full of energy and word […]

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wQr launches, soars

“Together we hatched a thing whose sweetness is matched only by its brilliance.” PRATHNA LOR CODY CAETANO BEN HJORTH on a queer carousel orchestrated by WHAT QUEER READING Series Editor FAN WU at a capacity house last night. Poetry well served.  knife | fork | book

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Fan’s 2018 Picks

    TOBY MARTINEZ DE RIVAS TERROR Rivas is a total scholar of the apocalypse whose erudition’s mode is its own self-immolation. There’s a clenching drama between the precision of the language and the malady of death that pressurizes it into that precision. LYNN CROSBIE THE CORPSES OF THE FUTURE She turns the banality of sickness and […]

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whatqueerreading.com

Our LGBTQ Imprint got some new digs >>>  & here [chirp]  

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Okay, she’s a bit biased, and these are quickly becoming her favourite nights at KFB (certainly, the most welcoming, radiant, colourful, playful, sexy, and unabashedly QUEER)! CASON SHARPE  YIWEI HU CODY CAETANO w/ her “wolverinology awesomeness” FAN WU worshipful master (and wQr Poetry Editor) who announced PRATHNA LOR and CODY CAETANO as the first two […]

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TONIGHT QUEERS

 

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#pinkasfuck

Annoucing the first two chapbook titles to be released on our wQr [What Queer Reading] imprint, edited by FAN WU. Friday. #pinkasfuck* *(or, her first [typo] entry, #pinkassfuck)

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“You’re an angel, baby.”

LAST NIGHT’s wQr WHAT QUEER READING event with BRANDY RYAN, THOM GILL, KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI, ALEXA WINSTANLEY-SMITH, hosted by FAN WU.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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COOL POETRY NIGHTS | #KFBFRIDAYS | JULY

FRIDAY JULY 6TH CATHERINE & KATHLEEN CATHERINE GRAHAM | KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN CATHERINE GRAHAM’s sixth poetry collection The Celery Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books) is a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. KATHLEEN McCRACKEN is a Canadian poet and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry […]

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Unabashedly QUEER

Toronto’s best source for #LGBTQ poetry.  knife | fork | book