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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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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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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

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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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Hatched

k | f | b  THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY wQr WHAT QUEER READING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA w/ BRIAN DEDORA | TANIS FRANCO | ZOE SHARP  | MAGDALENA SUKSI | HOSTED BY FAN WU FRIDAY APRIL 20TH  7PM (SHARP) Doors 6:30 Poetry 7-ish  Wear socks to be seen (we’re shoeless). DAVID ALEXANDER AFTER THE HATCHING OVEN LAUNCH (Nightwood Editions) w/surprise guest poets + cupcakes SATURDAY APRIL 21ST 3PM […]

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NEW KFB imprint announced

I’m thrilled to announce a new chapbook imprint at knife | fork |book: wQr, What Queer Reading, with myself acting as editor and Kirby as publisher. We’re devoted to publishing queer poets of colour, and we’re looking for work in which queerness is expressed alongside but also beyond identity: in the shifting of selfhood into cosmic matter; […]

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wQr Poetry Reading Series @ KFB

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“In Jim Nason‘s fifth collection of poetry, Touch Anywhere to Begin (Signature Editions, 2016), poems are set in a physical world where full-throttle desire commingles with love, loss and grief. Although death is ever present — death of a father, death of a friend — there is a life-affirming/mystical quality at the core of the […]