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17 Dec 2025

Ten years of #poetrywellserved #KFB10 knifeforkbook.com knifeforkbook.shop asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book patreon.com/c/kfb instagram.com/knifeforkbook/

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Poet meets chapbook. #debut #KFB10 #fertileseries #poetrywellserved Congrats to Januel Noche & her stunning KFB debut, "Seven Year Shed." www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p216/J... See/hear Januel @meetthepresses.bsky.social Nov 21.

knifeforkbook.shopKFB 10 FALL[ING STILL] 2026 BUNDLESFertile Offerings this Fall Celebrating our 10th Anniversary of "Poetry. Well-served." BUNDLE 1 WORDSDavid Hadbawnik DamageJanuel Noche Seven Year ShedBarbara Tran Homing InstinctYoko's Dogs Dictionar...

"I want it all." #KFB10 #fertileseries #poetrywellserved KFB 10 FALL[ING STILL] BUNDLES #goodness #getyours www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p218/K...

"words that make up Understatement[s] that once caused unseen scars are now badges with honour. They have become labels that have been embraced by the LGBTQ+community & are worn proudly, defiantly." PHILIP HARE @philiphare.bsky.social Understatements #KFB10 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p208/P...

knifeforkbook.shopJANUEL NOCHE Seven Year ShedIf I were to run with something,I’d run with this bookI’d run with peonies;My new loverShe is my current secretYou will soon understandTheir KFB debut.JANUEL NOCHESeven Year ShedPoetry. Chapbook.ISBN:...

The debut. #KFB10 #poetrywellserved JANUEL NOCHE Seven Year Shed www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p216/J...

Part of KFB 10th Anniversary Season #fertileseries Selected by Dale Martin Smith for knife | fork | book DAVID HADBAWNIK Damage www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p217/D... US/Intl @asterismbooks.bsky.social

knifeforkbook.shopYOKO'S DOGS Dictionary of Wit & Wisdom"Immortality : hard butter"Celebrating the "dogs" 20th, and our 10th! YOKO'S DOGS Dictionary of Wit & WisdomISBN: 978-1-989355-94-7 Poetry. Pamphlet. 8 pages. Fertile series.Cover: KirbyLayout: Ralph ...

Celebrating the "dogs" 20th, and our 10th! #KFB10 #fertileseries YOKO'S DOGS Dictionary of Wit & Wisdom www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p219/Y...

The new Barbara Tran. @staranise99.bsky.social Homing Instinct #KFB10 #fertileseries www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p214/h...

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knifeforkbook.shopKIRBY FO[U]RPLAY"This way >>>" (or, "How to Winter.") The whole Kirby-kitten kaboodle! THIS IS WHERE I GET OFFPOETRY IS QUEERSHEFAIRYKirby Complete: Four full-length collections, from their sex-drenched OG debut to ...

The whole Kirby-kitten kaboodle! 💅 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p221/K...

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james-lindsay.bsky.social

@james-lindsay.bsky.social

Reading this Friday the Niagara Artists Centre St. Catherines with this dream team of poets to help @itsakirby.bsky.social launch the brilliant new Fairy.

robmclennan.blogspot.comOngoing notes: The Fisher Small + Fine Press Fair (part two, : R. Kolewe + Erin Conway-Smith,See part one here, of course. Toronto ON: Oh, how lovely to see this new title by Toronto poet R. Kolewe [ see my review of his latest ...

"Oh, how lovely to see this new title by R. Kolewe HOLONOMY, a cluster of fourteen delightfully-packed and short prose poems." - @robmclennan.bsky.social #blog robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/ongo... R. KOLEWE @rkolewe.bsky.social Holonomy #KFB10 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p209/R...

robmclennan.blogspot.comOngoing notes: The Fisher Small + Fine Press Fair (part one, : James Lindsay + Jenny Berkel,Another Fisher fair! I’ve already posted my report on the event , and, unfortunately, I’m unable to get into Toronto further this fall for t...

"Good to see new work from @james-lindsay.bsky.social, Choral Coral Carol, a single poem set as an extended accumulation of wayward, meditative lyrics set as long-lined couplets. There’s such a music to his responses..." - @robmclennan.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/ongo...

knifeforkbook.shopJAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carolfrom 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....

"Let us take a look at what you've done. Stop shoving It away like that. There is no cure for crumpled paper" from the author of "Only Insistence" and "The Lake" JAMES LINDSAY @james-lindsay.bsky.social Choral Coral Carol This is KFB. #KFB10 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...

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To choose is to erase. Michael Prior, from Shadows Under the Trees (2026) @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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itsakirby.bandcamp.comNever Assume Wrong, by Kirbytrack by Kirby

"You never know when you're going to enter a temple" NEW SINGLE #kirbyfairy "NEVER ASSUME WRONG" featured in the current BASTE MAGAZINE Issue 04 "NO SPACE IS SAFE" bastemagazine.com itsakirby.bandcamp.com/track/never-...

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Rabih Alameddine

@rabihalameddine.bsky.social

Paul Klee - Landscape with Child - 1923

Cavafy, Ian, and Kirby. #today #onthebalcony from Ian Indiano's forthcoming KFB Fertile Series project, "Sweet Marie" #intheworks Winter 2027 #KFB10 #poetrywellserved www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p215/I...

Ian Indiano. "Spirit" #billbissett #SweetMarie #KFB10

"...each depicting a stylized pair of men’s underwear, bearing text on the waistband. The words, lifted from old journals, tell a story of queer love and acceptance born of pain and perseverance. They are the inspiration for these visual poems." Philip HARE Understatements #KFB10 #fertileseries

PHILIP HARE UNDERSTATEMENTS OUT NOW #KFB10 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p208/P...

Save with a bundle! #KFB10 #fallbaby #fertileseries www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p218/K...

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Ange Mlinko

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Loch Baillie Tiana Reid Sue Sinclair Michael Trussler & kirby 23rd Annual Poetry Weekend icehouse poetry & friends 02 October 7pm UNB Memorial Hall @gooselane.bsky.social #icehousepoetry fairy kirby @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

20 Sept

A special day. #KFB10 #poetrywellserved @fisherlibrary.bsky.social #smallpressfair #today Thanks to all who came out... so sweet to see (& meet) you! knifeforkbook.shop knifeforkbook.com patreon.com/c/kfb instagram.com/knifeforkbook/

KIRBY@itsakirby.bsky.social

...and then, this. #kirbyfairy #joy #bliss #surprise! from the remarkable @bookgaga.bsky.social #squee! at @fisherlibrary.bsky.social #smallpressfair #today fairy kirby @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Thanks to all who came out and made this a special day. 🧚‍♂️

16 Sept

"Come hither, booklovers..." #ThisWay >>> SATURDAY. 10-5. @fisherlibrary.bsky.social #KFB10 #poetrywellserved #kirbyfairy +++

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Jacob Wren

@jacobwren.bsky.social

10 Sept

"How long can a person recover before it becomes another form of not being?" - Claudia La Rocco, The Best Most Useless Dress

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10 Sept

Oh, why did I let that boy go? Nancy Willard

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This glorious bird. Thank you Katya Nosko #greatescapebookstore kirby fairy @palimpsestpress.bsky.social palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-...

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D. A. Powell

@dapowell.bsky.social

I don't care if writing doesn't save me from anything else. It saves me from myself.

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@emdubbleu.bsky.social

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Vicki Ziegler

@bookgaga.bsky.social

houseofanansi.comThe SentinelMortality, Love, Ethics, Civilization, Divine Presence, Human Body, Modernity, The Natural World, and Constructed Spaces. The Sentinel watches and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and wo...

"Thou poem of lost attention and half try, do you fear more the inner world or outer? I do not love the self less than the others, my name is legion and my mouth one cry." #TodaysPoem Thou Poem by @afmoritz.bsky.social The Sentinel 2008 @houseofanansi.bsky.social houseofanansi.com/products/the...

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Hollay Ghadery

@hollay.bsky.social

10 Sept

In this episode, I speak with the iconic Kirby about their joyful and powerful new book, Fairy (Palimpsest Press, 2026). Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/fairy 🧚‍♂️: @itsakirby.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #queerlit #fairy #nonfiction

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12 Sept

Must you have a part in everything? William Carlos Williams, in Nancy Willard's Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey (1998)

1 Sept

$10/each ALL KFB TITLES CURRENTLY IN STOCK #KFB10 #poetrywellserved #flyrobinfly #tenspot #tenbucks #hitmeten

youtu.beSilver Convention - Fly Robin Fly (1975) • TopPopYouTube video by TopPop

1 Sept

"fly robin fly up up to the sky" #SALE #poetrywellserved youtu.be/wC_kCnm3GYQ?... KFB ON SALE knifeforkbook.shop

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Vicki Ziegler

@bookgaga.bsky.social

31 Aug

"Depression is a room full of cereal bowls." #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 31/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry Me and You and Awkward Silence by @jacobalvarado.bsky.social from I Can Make It All Up To You (2024 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p193/J...

patreon.comCan it be? | knife fork bookKFB BULLETIN SEPTEMBER 2026 I recall times when you simply needed to check, clean, or replace your spark plugs. And, of course it would take

29 Aug

KFB NEWS/UPDATES #KFB10 #PoetryWellServed SEPT 2026 www.patreon.com/kfb/posts/ca...

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Amanda Earl

@amandaearl.bsky.social

21 Aug

Chuffed to receive this glowing and thoughtful review of Slutflowers by Jamie Kitts in the Mirimichi Review! miramichireader.ca/2026/08/slut... @emdubbleu.bsky.social @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

miramichireader.caSlutflowers by Amanda Earl; Matthew Walsh | The Miramichi ReaderIt’s very difficult to be gender-expansive in 2026. I won’t belabor the point when it’s not hard to find bad news. But one thing that’s brought me comfort i ...

knifeforkbook.shopAMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH SlutflowersKFB FLASH SUMMER SALE Now thru 31 AUG $10 (Celebrating our 10th!)from the authors of Matthew, Beast Body Epic / Terrarium, These Are Not the Potatoes of My YouthAMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSHSlutflowers ...

20 Aug

"Work like Genet’s, or the classic Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, shows us that we can still find liberation in our pleasure during political moments such as these. And wow, does SLUTFLOWERS ever find pleasure." miramichireader.ca/2026/08/slut... > www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p205/A...

20 Aug

"Let SLUTFLOWERS envelop you slowly. Savour the kindness in every drop of shared water with this golden shower of a golden shovel. Read it at the pace you masturbate and take breaks if needed." - JAMIE KITTS miramichireader.ca/2026/08/slut... TEN BUCKS #KFB www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p205/A...

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jessi

@jessisays.bsky.social

16 Aug

Replying to @jessisays.bsky.social

Two more from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social this Sunday morning. 15. Amanda Earl and Matthew Walsh, Slutflowers (Knife Fork Book, 2026) 16. R. Kolewe, Holonomy (Knife Fork Book, 2026)

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knifeforkbook.shopHELEN ROBERTSON LesbiaKFB FLASH SUMMER SALE Now thru 31 AUG $10 (Celebrating our 10th!)"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 r...

14 Aug

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Portals. Thanks @jessisays.bsky.social Both On Sale Now $10/each #KFBFLASHSUMMERSALE Celebrating our 10th Anniversary #KFB10 #poetrywellserved JIM JOHNSTONE Eye For An Eye www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p206/J... HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p210/H...

13 Aug

"Sometimes my hands are full when I think they're holding nothing—" Maureen Scott Harris. Showing us the way. Always. New MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS "The Fullness" Out Now from #anstrutherpress www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...

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jessi

@jessisays.bsky.social

11 Aug

Replying to @jessisays.bsky.social

Waking up this morning with two @knifeforkbook.bsky.social miniatures… 7. Jim Johnstone, Eye for an Eye (Knife Fork Book, 2026) 8. Helen Robertson, Lesbia (Knife Fork Book, 2026)

9 Aug

Huge congrats to Jim & Erica #anstrutherpress and the release of their first full-length poetry collection, "Out of Office" by Nasser Hussain. In a word, stunning. www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products...

9 Aug

The OG bunny. Jacob Alvarado I Can Make It All Up To You On Sale #FlashSummerSale #KFB10 www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p193/J...

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6 Aug

Lighting up the Danforth skies celebrating with this one @peacehearty.bsky.social last night.