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“There is no meeting without body:”

  KFB WEEKEND FRIDAY JUNE 8 DAVID JAMES BROCK | DANI COUTURE | ANNICK MACASKILL NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY (GASPEREAU PRESS) TORONTO LAUNCH SAT JUNE 9 ADÈLE BARCLAY  | A. LIGHT ZACHARY  | CANISIA LUBRIN | MARCELA HUERTA 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 […]

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“It’s KFBFriday”

and NEXT FRIDAY 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. Please remove your shoes upon entrance.

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Because we’re here

  because the one who holds the pen, even if it’s too dark to / see the page and even if the ink is his own blood, is free* There’s a story here, an ongoing one (thanks to you). Here’s but an excerpt: Picture this, coldest winter on record, flu bug making the rounds, and we […]

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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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In the stars

“Aren’t we a pair?” Iconic LYNN CROSBIE and a mesmerising CANISIA LUBRIN. Pure poetry. Pure magic. This place.  knife | fork | book Photos: KIRBY

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Don’t miss this

I miss you he says, and I say it back, but this time we are both miserable because what we are saying is that who we were and what we were is gone. LYNN CROSBIE, The Corpses of the Future (Anansi, 2017). HEAR HER HERE W/ CANISIA LUBRIN VOODOO HYPOTHESIS (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) KFB […]

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‘such fire’

I’ll let you go, he says before hanging up, although he never has. LYNN CROSBIE The Corpses of the Future But why / should I unravel over all this remembering? / Great thing about landing / is that I’ve arrived CANISIA LUBRIN Voodoo Hypothesis k | f | b  FRIDAYS | THIS FRIDAY LYNN CROSBIE […]

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A la carte

Our menu. Poetry.  knife | fork | book

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We

First SLO-PO with DAVID BRADFORD (CALL OUT kfb, 2017) in our intimate, beautiful new reading room/salon space at The Dark Side Studio (created by artist/dancer AUDRA SIMMONS), reading CANISIA LUBRIN’s remarkable debut, VOODOO HYPOTHESIS (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) with the poet among poets in house. A gift of an evening. KFB UPCOMING: OCT 20 NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS SHOWCASE  SPENCER GORDON | OWAIN NICHOLSON | DAVID […]

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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 […]