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Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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

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Dan Chiasson, with a poem for William Blake, who was born on this day in 1757
Blake A satellite sees into your heart. It is blind to the rest of the planet. Its giant eye stares all day at the one bull's-eye on its one target. It sees that your heart is sick. You're sick. All that it sees is the fact your heart, that once held endless joy, now sick, soon will "thy life destroy."
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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"Kirby, what is the [KFB Patreon] money going to?" #thanks
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Printing [& shipping] | knife fork book
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November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
knifeforkbook.bsky.social
from the author of "Toothache"

"It's all in how he paints
on his eyebrows."

JOSEPH DONATO
No One Should Be Happy When I'm Not
#KFB10 #spring2026 #fore4playpack

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November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"Blame age, diet, stress.
Blame the faith something was bound to go bad."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Blame by Barry Dempster (2019 Dreamers Creative Writing) dreamerswriting.com/barry-dempst...
BLAME
Barry Dempster writes: "Blame the promiscuous breeze of Chernobyl, diesel fumes, warp-walled genes. Blame payback." Check it out.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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divinetailor.bsky.social
meanwhile, poetry
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
"I have held many jobs this lifetime. Most “volunteer,” as in either little to no monetary income (guaranteed, or otherwise), never a salary, or benefits ... The hope of something possibly “paying off” in the end.

Old school realness." #mylovelife

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November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Meanwhile by Richard Siken
www.divasofverse.com/2019/09/mean...
Meanwhile by Richard Siken
Meanwhile   Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make                                 the new streets y...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Jan Zwicky
SECURING THE HOUSE What is it we are trying to achieve? That we will learn before we die to make our leaving orderly? Imagine turning down the heat and walking out, not even locking up, imagine coming back weeks later. Ah, the list of failures: unpaid bills, the missing jewellery, plant leaves browning on the window sills. And the dust. What of the dust?
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Paradise in the wild.

Dale Martin Smith
The Size of Paradise
KFB

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Thank you @rbmertz.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Current. #reading #poetry #stack #fall2025
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Jim Harrison
LARSON'S HOLSTEIN BULL Death waits inside us for a door to open. Death is patient as a dead cat. Death is a doorknob made of flesh. Death is that angelic farm girl gored by the bull on her way home from school, crossing the pasture for a shortcut. In the seventh grade she couldn't read or write. She wasn't a virgin. She was "simpleminded," we all said. It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars. She's lived in my memory for sixty years. Death steals everything except our stories.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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TODAY 2-4PM #HalifaxCentralLibrary

20 Poets.
2 Hours.
1 hell of a celebration.

Free & open to all. #OpaatPress @thisisannick.bsky.social
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November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Top three reasons (there's more) to read this @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA interview w/poet MATTHEW WALSH:

1. "I have never told this story to anyone, but once..."
2. "I remember one of the times I was the happiest."
3. “Where is the television?”

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There are too many types of milks.
I've been meaning to ask Matthew Walsh
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November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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thisisannick.bsky.social
Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.
This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Angie.
Stevie.
Jordan.

Sunday. @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social #studiogarzon

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November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Best Advice EV-VAH:

"Another piece of advice to myself: If you reach a point of knowing exactly what you’re doing, you’re probably bored or boring. Forge ahead, little sister, you’ll learn on the way." -
@staranise99.bsky.social #SendMyLoveToAnyone

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Forge ahead, little sister, you’ll learn on the way.
I've been meaning to ask Barbara Tran
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November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
knifeforkbook.bsky.social
SATURDAY 2-4PM #halifaxcentrallibrary
writers.ns.ca/events/opaat...

Huge congrats to publisher @thisisannick.bsky.social & the poets of #OppatPress on this, their #SecondAnniversary celebration.

Read more about the micro-presses' herstory here:
annickmacaskill.com/2024/12/28/3...
367 Days Later: Reflecting on a Year of Opaat Press
I published a pamphlet of Nanci Lee’s poem “Palindrome” last Boxing Day, marking the beginning of Opaat Press. Opaat was an idea that had been lingering in the back of my mind for over a year. I wa…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
London's calling. #sunday @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social #studiogarzon #LondonON #launch #steviemanning #angiequick #jordanking #queer #bliss

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November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
Sometimes it helps to just make yourself a little crown ...
Me, smiling, wearing a burgundy turtleneck and a crocheted gold crown, thank you very much!
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Terrance Hayes, born on this day in 1971
WIND IN A BOX This ink. This name. This blood. This blunder. This blood. This loss. This lonesome. Wind. This canyon. This / twin /swiftly / paddling /shadow blooming an inch above the carpet―. This cry. This mud. This shudder. This is where I stood: by the bed, by the door, by the window, in the night / in the night. How deep, how often / must a woman be touched? How deep, how often have I been touched? On the bone, on the shoulder, on the brow, on the knuckle: Touch like a last name, touch like a wet match. Touch like an empty shoe and an empty shoe, sweet and incomprehensible. This ink. This name. This blood and wonder. This box. This body in a box. This blood in the body. This wind in the blood.
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
The Mockler @themockler.bsky.social at #SendMyLoveToAnyone 🙌 🙏 💐
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Incy Wincy Spider
One of these days we'll both be fine
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November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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jacobwren.bsky.social
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
- Audre Lorde
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Toronto @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #launch @anotherstoryto.bsky.social hosted by the hardest working man in poetryland #JimJohnstone. (Not pictured, @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social). #earliertonight
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Poetry collections I adore with the word "Men" in the title:

Men in the Off Hours #Carson

The Book of Men #Laux

Men of the Same Name #Jones

#shortlist #offthetopofmyhead
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM