"How do I look?"* Jacob Alvarado Jim Johnstone Kirby R.Kolewe Zane Koss James Lindsay Jennifer LoveGrove Amanda Merpaw Januel Noche Ben Robinson & Dale Martin Smith KFB10 SPRING POETRY EXTRAVAGANZA 11 April 2-5pm Arts Etobicoke Storefront Gallery 4983A Dundas St W www.patreon.com/posts/gift-o...

Great poem from Phillip Crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social

"No More Sacrificial Lambs." - #KirbyFairy Sportin' our colours. kirbyfairy.ca Kirby Fairy Fall 2026 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

The gift [of spring]. #KFB10 #poetrywellserved #ArtsEtobicoke #NationalPoetryMonth

NEW @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @themockler.bsky.social #SendMyLoveToAnyone sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/dont-worry...

"How does it feel to be back?" #KFB10 #poetrywellserved Last night's opener celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth at Arts Etobicoke... thanks to Ana Palacios, Zane Koss, Jessica Hiemstra, Daniel Ramalho, and, the poets who brought it all to life. Kirby smiles, "It's a blast, baby!"

congratulations to Sue Goyette and Natalie Rice, who are nominated for the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award! writers.ns.ca/programs/boo...

Can't wait to send my kids to Charlie Kirk Elementary, where the teachers will be prohibited from explaining who the school is named after. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

A reminder that this weekend is a government holiday, with school closures, to mark a Christian holiday. But apparently it's only ideologically based when it's everyone else.

The new @neilsurkan.bsky.social has arrived, and it's sublime.

I adore Jennifer LoveGrove. @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social In many ways, we are sister poets (she aspires). Publishing the KFB chapbook of her Tinder Sonnets @knifeforkbook.bsky.social was one of the great pleasures of my life. Now, the equally immense joy to celebrate the launch of her glorious...

"If we've done nothing else, we've done this." #ourmotto This is KFB. #KFB10 knifeforkbook.com/2022/07/26/f...

WEDNESDAY APRIL 1ST OPENING NIGHT 6-8PM #celebration #ArtsEtobicoke #NationalPoetryMonth #KFB10 ZANE KOSS ("Country Music" @invisibooks.bsky.social) will be hosting an open mic as we kick-off our April residency at ARTS ETOBICOKE STOREFRONT GALLERY 4893A Dundas Street West

See leather, post leather 🖤

Max Dupain, Sydney Opera House Under Construction, 1962

So rare (to rush to a book table to grab a copy before they're gone). #shebows This. Debut. Ablaze. #thewonder HAJER MIRWALI Revolutions @talonbooks.bsky.social talonbooks.com/books/revolu...

April #KFB10 #artsetobicoke #poetrywellserved www.patreon.com/posts/april-...

This is #KFB10 photos.app.goo.gl/4K7WrZ93X9Zp...

Setting the stage. #poetrydarlins KFB joins Arts Etobicoke in Celebration of National Poetry Month & our 10th. April 1-30. Opening Night April 1st 6-8pm KFB at Arts Etobicoke Storefront Gallery 4893A Dundas St W Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5 Sat 11-4 Kirby will be in house, Weds & Sat afternoons.

to be loved to the end / without ruth or recrimination C.D. Wright

Time to bust out your best Spring Bonnet! #KFB10 #Spring26 7 New Titles. This. Pretty. #poetrywellserved The things we do for love. Thanks to the poets & meticulous layout/design work by @rkolewe.bsky.social (such a pleasure to make pretty... www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p211/K...

The Day Lady Died by Frank O'Hara www.divasofverse.com/2016/03/the-...

Language did not give us stories; stories gave us language.

Leon Roulette Iceland Poppies, 2010 oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches

#TodaysPoem 🕊️ The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful – Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

For your #smallpoemsunday, an uncollected poem by James Tate as it appeared in the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review.

TUESDAY 8PM #DanuSocialHouse The background for these #MIXEDMETALS fliers remind me of early Cocteau Twins LP cover art, glorious "fluffy tufts..." chuffed to join the fine featured poets who've appeared before me. Grand good company. Reading new work from #FAIRY. Do come. Sign up. Read with me.

James Schuyler’s poems don’t propel you outward. They slow you down. Mae Losasso on why he’s the poet for our distracted moment.

"Joanne Kyger taught me how to live with poetry as an integrated part of everyday reality. She said, 'I don't care what you think or feel, I want to know what's happening.' And that sticks with me." Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social interviews Dale Martin Smith whitewallreview.com/may-i-have-a...

"Empties is out today." NEIL SURKAN @neilsurkan.bsky.social Empties @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Empt...

Happy pub day to @cphillipspoet.bsky.social! His debut collection, IN THE BLOOD, has been reissued by @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Read about how his first book outed him—and saved his life. yalereview.org/article/carl...

You can follow the poet Evan Jones, author of the last poems I posted, here @evanpjones.bsky.social The poems are from his first collection of poetry from 2003.

KFB #poetrywellserved #KFB10 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social APRIL 1-30 #poetry #chapbooks #GALORE at Arts Etobicoke Storefront Gallery 4893A Dundas Street West #ArtsEtobicoke #NationalPoetryMonth Open Gallery hours artsetobicoke.com/gallery/ Kirby at your service (Weds & Sat) knifeforkbook.com

Sadiqa de Meijer Maureen Scott Harris Jacob Alvarado Kirby Dale Martin Smith Norma Cole KFB Spring 2024/25 Back to back. #npm25 Poetry. Well-served. knifeforkbook.shop

JUST IN. KIRBY kirbyfairy.ca MARCH 24th Doors 7pm Reading 8pm Mixed Metals #mixedmetalsTO Danu Social House 1237 Queen St. W. #DanuSocialHouse www.instagram.com/mixedmetals.... So pretty. Soon loves. (Come. Read with me. #openmic)

Someone by Howard Moss www.divasofverse.com/2018/03/some...

"This way >>>" KIRBY Fairy Fall 2026 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social kirbyfairy.ca/fairy-knows/

DALE MARTIN SMITH #dalemartinsmith The Passenger #thepassenger Wave Books Fall 2026 dalemartinsmith.com

London. She's bringing it. #LittleLitFest Unleashing new work from my upcoming FAIRY @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #Fall2026 on a panel "Why I Write" w/Aurora Stewart de Peña, and Jules Lee, Host: Andrés Garzon SATURDAY MAR 14TH 4:30PM @thegrandlondon.bsky.social www.littlewrenbooks.com/events

Fun with Dale. #DaleMartinSmith #TheSizeofParadise #KFB www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p188/D... & @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

Pleased to find my Men of the Same Name being read at Heron Books in Bristol: ‘[R]eading these [poems], one wants to devote close attention and time to his writing, his characters and the poet, to spot patterns in how we have lived for thousands of years, be curious, do something.’

James Laughlin's entry on Allen Ginsberg in The Way it Wasn't (2006)

"Tejada renders the past’s persistence in the imagination of the present... Readers find not agitprop but lyric expressivity opening a sense of wonder." DALE MARTIN SMITH reviews ROBERTO TEJADA "Carbonate of Copper" #ChicagoReview @fordhampress.bsky.social www.chicagoreview.org/roberto-teja...

GO ALL OUT IN ROMANCE AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY

TORONTO LAUNCH JENNIFER LOVEGROVE @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social The Tinder Sonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social 07 APRIL 6PM BURDOCK MUSIC HALL 1184 Bloor St W w/Andrew Kaufman + @itsakirby.bsky.social RSVP: burdockbrewery.com/pages/music-hall

Robert Lowell was born on this day in 1917. According to Frank Bidart, this is "[t]he final stanza of an unfinished poem that Lowell was working on the week before he died."

(shoes optional) KFB APRIL 1-30 #NationalPoetryMonth at Arts Etobicoke Storefront Gallery 4893A Dundas Street West

Find/download TRAVIS SHARP @travissharp.bsky.social YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER #KFB Here: www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p111/T... & @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/yes-...

Helen Frankenthaler, Southern Exposure, 2005

There simply aren't enough superlatives for the work of award-winning Japanese-Canadian poet KEVIN IRIE, including his latest, EVACUATIONS @ualbertapress.bsky.social I'm shook. "Year of the Fire Horse?" "Yes. It's Kevin Irie." - @itsakirby.bsky.social ualbertapress.ca/978177212853...