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Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10 NEW KFB 10TH 2026/27 SEASON https://www.patreon.com/posts/mains-133165415 Find us: asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book + knifeforkbook.com

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 12d

Ten Years in the Making. Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 9h

"Fairy knows" #softie kirbyfairy.ca
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KIRBY Softie

“Fairy knows / Where when to take cover, fuck in the / Shadows. Dance in the night of day.”To celebrate their appearance at Soft Fest 3 (with the Angie Quick), Kirby put together a chapbook of new wri...

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K. Arrrgh! Wilson 🧟‍♂️ 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 13h

@itsakirby.bsky.social’s new chapbook Softie merges the concision of poetry with the rage of a political pamphlet, taking on the current autocratic anti-queer politico-religious climate with archness and elder-wisdom and hope.

Cover image of Kirby’s chapbook Softie, featuring the author in repose.

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN. #MONTREAL

Jessica HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Cory LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

05 NOV 7PM
ARGO BOOKSHOP
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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Come out, come out wherever you are
And meet the young lady who fell from a star."
#NationalComingOutDay2025

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KIRBY on Instagram: "Giving thanks on National Coming Out Day reading from Poetry is Queer @palimpsestpressbooks"

3 likes, 0 comments - poetryisqueer on October 11, 2025: "Giving thanks on National Coming Out Day reading from Poetry is Queer @palimpsestpressbooks".

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 3d

Anne Carson, from the Summer 2025 issue of Daedalus.

How Pants

all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by
all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by trousers, too
all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by all kinds of pants went by yet the birches linger

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

Fujita Fumio (b 1933)
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

“Again space is full of voices, the entire body has become heart.”

—Hélène Cixous

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 3d

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 3d

Two Kinds of Unrequited Pink Friendship
#paint, #unrequited, #friendship, #art

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 3d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 3d

Yay weekend

Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein biography, my kid’s hands, some cat matryoshkas, and a Portuguese chicken ornament

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

She is (finally) at #TPL #takemeout #KirbyShe
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 4d

Hello Aidan!

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 4d

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver).

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 5d

TONIGHT! 6:30 #TypeJunction

knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 6d

Nightmare Jones' Eve.
@shannyraindrop.bsky.social @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social

Launch. 09Oct. #typebooksjunction #torontolitup
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 6d

Nightmare Jones' Eve.
@shannyraindrop.bsky.social @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social

Launch. 09Oct. #typebooksjunction #torontolitup
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 7d

Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10 @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 7d

THURSDAY NIGHT 6:30
at TYPE JUNCTION

An extraordinary cast has been assembled to celebrate the arrival of NIGHTMARE JONES the newest collaboration by SHANNON BRAMER & CINDY DERBY from @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #torontolitup

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 9d

THIS WEEK

She's headed to The Junction!*

#TypeJunction to read from/celebrate #the launch of NIGHTMARE JONES @shannyraindrop.bsky.social #CindyDerby @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #torontolitup

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