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Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10
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“Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade.” A poem by Lorine Niedecker.
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
“Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade.” A poem by Lorine Niedecker.
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Raoul Fernandes, from the new issue of @thewalrus.ca
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Raoul Fernandes, from the new issue of @thewalrus.ca
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"One must dare to be happy."
--Gertrude Stein
(born 3 February, 1874)
--Gertrude Stein
(born 3 February, 1874)
February 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
"One must dare to be happy."
--Gertrude Stein
(born 3 February, 1874)
--Gertrude Stein
(born 3 February, 1874)
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Some small beauty. Poppy edition.
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Some small beauty. Poppy edition.
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"I was looking for a new life. I wanted to be as stupid as kissing, as dirty as a servant, as ripe as a blown-open diary, and I was."
– Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal
– Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"I was looking for a new life. I wanted to be as stupid as kissing, as dirty as a servant, as ripe as a blown-open diary, and I was."
– Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal
– Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal
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"These sentences will be half of something loving and half of something gone." —Renee Gladman
February 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
"These sentences will be half of something loving and half of something gone." —Renee Gladman
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Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
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As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it.
- Frank O'Hara, "Personism"
- Frank O'Hara, "Personism"
February 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it.
- Frank O'Hara, "Personism"
- Frank O'Hara, "Personism"
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Gertrude Stein Home Movie: A Portrait of Picasso
YouTube video by Gary Barwin
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February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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"The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it."
- Amiri Baraka
- Amiri Baraka
February 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
"The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it."
- Amiri Baraka
- Amiri Baraka
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“A strong swimmer in these uneven flesh-drenched waters, mindfields of online desire, LoveGrove delivers the goods on every page, always noting the nearest exits, nodding to Angela at the bar, practicing the code, ‘Centuries of women warning women’… The power in these sonnets is a hard-won blazing
February 4, 2026 at 2:46 AM
“A strong swimmer in these uneven flesh-drenched waters, mindfields of online desire, LoveGrove delivers the goods on every page, always noting the nearest exits, nodding to Angela at the bar, practicing the code, ‘Centuries of women warning women’… The power in these sonnets is a hard-won blazing
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Rejoicing in the solitary pleasure of reading and the quiet magic of community ...
Read the first report of 2026 (including another delicious reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub (@silentbookclub.bsky.social) group: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/02/02/r...
Read the first report of 2026 (including another delicious reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub (@silentbookclub.bsky.social) group: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/02/02/r...
February 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Rejoicing in the solitary pleasure of reading and the quiet magic of community ...
Read the first report of 2026 (including another delicious reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub (@silentbookclub.bsky.social) group: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/02/02/r...
Read the first report of 2026 (including another delicious reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub (@silentbookclub.bsky.social) group: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/02/02/r...
A REMARKABLE BOOK that is anti-corporate, anti-national, pro-queer body,& pro-queer sex is called SHE. Kirby has also lost many friends in the early years of the AIDS crisis you can feel the “I’m not taking shit from anybody” vibe all over these pages. CACONRAD
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KIRBY she
"She is joy's pronoun!" —ERÍN MOURE"She is a capacious city of rich human habitation, where elation is every day’s caring infusion. Her cityscapes are painted deftly—in few words, in pauses, in juxta...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM
A REMARKABLE BOOK that is anti-corporate, anti-national, pro-queer body,& pro-queer sex is called SHE. Kirby has also lost many friends in the early years of the AIDS crisis you can feel the “I’m not taking shit from anybody” vibe all over these pages. CACONRAD
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2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social
There was a story. There was a time.
There was a distinct sense of measure.
There was a heat. But never calm. Messiness.
Wide oak. How plastic lids exhale carbon.
THE SIZE OF PARADISE #KFB
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There was a story. There was a time.
There was a distinct sense of measure.
There was a heat. But never calm. Messiness.
Wide oak. How plastic lids exhale carbon.
THE SIZE OF PARADISE #KFB
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DALE MARTIN SMITH The Size of Paradise
2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALISTThere is a wound the size of paradise."With a kind of clipped historical shorthand, the use of the fragment in The Size of Paradise becomes a supercharged lyrical for...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:50 AM
2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social
There was a story. There was a time.
There was a distinct sense of measure.
There was a heat. But never calm. Messiness.
Wide oak. How plastic lids exhale carbon.
THE SIZE OF PARADISE #KFB
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There was a story. There was a time.
There was a distinct sense of measure.
There was a heat. But never calm. Messiness.
Wide oak. How plastic lids exhale carbon.
THE SIZE OF PARADISE #KFB
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"My legs were oaks. My knees; a forest-fire."
"His hand... slicked with sweat
from the shame of being unashamed"
"11:59 PM: a kiss away."
JACOB ALVARADO #JacobAlvarado
I Can Make It All Up To You
Their poetry debut from KFB.
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"His hand... slicked with sweat
from the shame of being unashamed"
"11:59 PM: a kiss away."
JACOB ALVARADO #JacobAlvarado
I Can Make It All Up To You
Their poetry debut from KFB.
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JACOB ALVARADO I Can Make It All Up To You
"My legs were oaks. My knees; a forest-fire.""His hand... slicked with sweatfrom the shame of being unashamed""11:59 PM: a kiss away."JACOB ALVARADOI Can Make It All Up To YouTheir poetry debut from K...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:43 AM
"My legs were oaks. My knees; a forest-fire."
"His hand... slicked with sweat
from the shame of being unashamed"
"11:59 PM: a kiss away."
JACOB ALVARADO #JacobAlvarado
I Can Make It All Up To You
Their poetry debut from KFB.
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"His hand... slicked with sweat
from the shame of being unashamed"
"11:59 PM: a kiss away."
JACOB ALVARADO #JacobAlvarado
I Can Make It All Up To You
Their poetry debut from KFB.
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LIMITED EDITION HAND-SEWN FELT SLIPCOVERS BY PHILIP HARE @philiphare.bsky.social #KFB10
"Words that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community and are worn proudly, defiantly."
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"Words that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community and are worn proudly, defiantly."
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PHILIP HARE Understatements
LIMITED EDITION [13] HAND-SEWN FELT SLIPCOVERS BY PHILIP HARE"I've kept journals since the early 1980s. Each of the words that make up Understatement[s] has appeared somewhere in them. Many of them mu...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:39 AM
LIMITED EDITION HAND-SEWN FELT SLIPCOVERS BY PHILIP HARE @philiphare.bsky.social #KFB10
"Words that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community and are worn proudly, defiantly."
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"Words that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community and are worn proudly, defiantly."
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Her brilliant 2024 Page Lecture in this glorious limited edition KFB/Fieldnotes publication.
“Decades later, I stood at the edge of a field that was blank with snow, and I felt again that old urge to write on it."
SADIQA DE MEIJER
Fieldwork #KFB #fieldnotes
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“Decades later, I stood at the edge of a field that was blank with snow, and I felt again that old urge to write on it."
SADIQA DE MEIJER
Fieldwork #KFB #fieldnotes
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SADIQA DE MEIJER Fieldwork
starling burdock mullien clover dandelion“In the back seat of my parents' car, I liked to put my finger on the window and write long cursive words on the pastures. I wanted the seat on the right, beca...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Her brilliant 2024 Page Lecture in this glorious limited edition KFB/Fieldnotes publication.
“Decades later, I stood at the edge of a field that was blank with snow, and I felt again that old urge to write on it."
SADIQA DE MEIJER
Fieldwork #KFB #fieldnotes
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“Decades later, I stood at the edge of a field that was blank with snow, and I felt again that old urge to write on it."
SADIQA DE MEIJER
Fieldwork #KFB #fieldnotes
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from the author of "The King of Terrors," and "The Ouroboros"
"I take back what I said earlier. I do
remember, I do – "
JIM JOHNSTONE
Eye for an Eye #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"I take back what I said earlier. I do
remember, I do – "
JIM JOHNSTONE
Eye for an Eye #KFB10 #Spring2026
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JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye
from the author of The King of Terrors, and The Ouroboros I take back what I said earlier. I do remember, I do –JIM JOHNSTONEEye for an EyePoetry. Chapbook.ISBN 978-1-989355-82-4OUT SPRING 2026Part of...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
from the author of "The King of Terrors," and "The Ouroboros"
"I take back what I said earlier. I do
remember, I do – "
JIM JOHNSTONE
Eye for an Eye #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"I take back what I said earlier. I do
remember, I do – "
JIM JOHNSTONE
Eye for an Eye #KFB10 #Spring2026
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from the author of "As if," "The Book of Benjamin," and "Without Form"
"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."
BEN ROBINSON @bengymen.bsky.social
[A] Sensitive Man #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."
BEN ROBINSON @bengymen.bsky.social
[A] Sensitive Man #KFB10 #Spring2026
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{A] Sensitive Man
Ben Robinson
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February 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
from the author of "As if," "The Book of Benjamin," and "Without Form"
"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."
BEN ROBINSON @bengymen.bsky.social
[A] Sensitive Man #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."
BEN ROBINSON @bengymen.bsky.social
[A] Sensitive Man #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"Every book is lucky to have been written but they do not all have the fortune to hear the flutter of their own pages...always the same delicate sound with each turn, yours, yours, yours."
HELEN ROBERTSON @helendestroy.bsky.social
Lesbia #KFB10 #Spring2026
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HELEN ROBERTSON @helendestroy.bsky.social
Lesbia #KFB10 #Spring2026
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HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia
"Every book is lucky to have been written but they do not all have the fortune to hear the flutter of their own pages. No matter your reinterpretation, no matter what is found in me, always the same d...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
"Every book is lucky to have been written but they do not all have the fortune to hear the flutter of their own pages...always the same delicate sound with each turn, yours, yours, yours."
HELEN ROBERTSON @helendestroy.bsky.social
Lesbia #KFB10 #Spring2026
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HELEN ROBERTSON @helendestroy.bsky.social
Lesbia #KFB10 #Spring2026
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from the authors of "Matthew," "Beast Body Epic" / "Terrarium," "These Are Not the Potatoes of My Youth"
AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH
@amandaearl.bsky.social #MatthewWalsh
Slutflowers #KFB10 #Spring2026
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AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH
@amandaearl.bsky.social #MatthewWalsh
Slutflowers #KFB10 #Spring2026
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AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH Slutflowers
from the authors of Matthew, Beast Body Epic / Terrarium, These Are Not the Potatoes of My YouthAMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSHSlutflowers Poetry. Chapbook. ISBN: 978-1-989355-81-7 OUT SPRING 2026Part of ...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:14 AM
from the authors of "Matthew," "Beast Body Epic" / "Terrarium," "These Are Not the Potatoes of My Youth"
AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH
@amandaearl.bsky.social #MatthewWalsh
Slutflowers #KFB10 #Spring2026
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AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH
@amandaearl.bsky.social #MatthewWalsh
Slutflowers #KFB10 #Spring2026
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from the author of "A Net of Momentary Sapphire" "silence, then" "The Wild Fox" + "The Absence of Zero"
"...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."
R. KOLEWE @rkolewe.bsky.social
Holonomy #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."
R. KOLEWE @rkolewe.bsky.social
Holonomy #KFB10 #Spring2026
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R. KOLEWE Holonomy
from the author of A Net of Momentary Sapphire. silence, then. The Wild Fox. + The Absence of Zero."...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."R. KOLEW...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:07 AM
from the author of "A Net of Momentary Sapphire" "silence, then" "The Wild Fox" + "The Absence of Zero"
"...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."
R. KOLEWE @rkolewe.bsky.social
Holonomy #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"...if the future exists it's all because of this week, all this week. The past no argument."
R. KOLEWE @rkolewe.bsky.social
Holonomy #KFB10 #Spring2026
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from the author of "Only Insistence" and "The Lake"
"Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.
Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight"
JAMES LINDSAY @james-lindsay.bsky.social
Choral Coral Carol #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.
Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight"
JAMES LINDSAY @james-lindsay.bsky.social
Choral Coral Carol #KFB10 #Spring2026
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JAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carol
from the author of Only Insistence and The Lake Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight JAMES LINDSAYChoral Coral CarolPoetry....
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February 3, 2026 at 2:04 AM
from the author of "Only Insistence" and "The Lake"
"Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.
Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight"
JAMES LINDSAY @james-lindsay.bsky.social
Choral Coral Carol #KFB10 #Spring2026
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"Generations of migrating robins have authored on the sky.
Translucent desire lines. Lapsed Catholics. What a sight"
JAMES LINDSAY @james-lindsay.bsky.social
Choral Coral Carol #KFB10 #Spring2026
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from the award-winning author of "Burning Province"
"Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now."
MICHAEL PRIOR #KFB10 #Spring2026
Shadows Under the Trees
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"Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now."
MICHAEL PRIOR #KFB10 #Spring2026
Shadows Under the Trees
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MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
from the award-winning author of Burning ProvinceNight falls, and I open the album I’ve chosen not to open until now. MICHAEL PRIORShadows Under the TreesPoetry. Chapbook.ISBN 978-1-989355-80-0OUT SP...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
from the award-winning author of "Burning Province"
"Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now."
MICHAEL PRIOR #KFB10 #Spring2026
Shadows Under the Trees
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"Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now."
MICHAEL PRIOR #KFB10 #Spring2026
Shadows Under the Trees
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Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of new writing with @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA #SendMyLoveToAnyone
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February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of new writing with @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA #SendMyLoveToAnyone
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