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NORMA COLE Rainy Day Norma Cole’s forms of expression are ambitious. Her poems often (though not always) take small forms; they are made of short lines, in small stanzas, so that the space of the page starts to play an ac...

A few copies of NORMA COLE's stunning KFB bestseller, RAINY DAY remain for your reading pleasure. #acquire @asterismbooks.bsky.social @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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This "Norma Cole Folio," lovingly tended by #DaleMartinSmith @poetryfoundation.bsky.social to accompany their extraordinary essays [editor] on Cole, "That Tongue Be Time" @unmpress.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Giov S.A. Blue (1993) - Derek Jarman

Blue. Derek Jarman.
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One can know the whole world Without stirring abroad Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven The further one goes The less one knows In the pandemonium of image I present you with the universal Blue Blue an open door to soul An infinite possibility Becoming tangible (from "Blue," Derek Jarman)

Reading the screenplay of Derek Jarman's final feature film, Blue. "Blue an open door to soul/An infinite possibility" 💙

"everyone wants cleans sheets" #current #read #whatyouwant

Glad you had fun love.

“White Gauze” - Robert Mapplethorpe

Como bellos cuerpos que la muerte impidió envejecer y yacen, encerrados con lágrimas, en magníficos sepulcros, coronados de rosas y a los pies jazmines, así son los deseos no satisfechos: aquellos que nunca se gozaron en una noche sensual o en una resplandeciente madrugada.

Kavafis

R. Mapplethorpe

MY FATHER, CUTTING AN APPLE Not in half, but wedge by wedge with a paring knife, cupping a crisp Gala in his palm, snagging the blade through skin, slicing pieces for us kids huddled around cable TV's laugh track. Giving it away, left only with the core, which he'd sliver into thin slices and mouth off the blade.

Bren Simmers

Next Sunday: me and Randall Mann present "Poetry and Sex in Public Places," a tribute to Mutsuo Takahashi in Jack Kerouac Alley.

Guest readers include Josh Tvrdy, Armen Davoudian, Dodie Bellamy and Sam Sax.

This is a free event, sponsored by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.

2pm Sunday, 10 August.

"Slobber all you want."

Kirby, "Liberation" from "Softie" #KFB
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Strictly limited edition in celebration of #SoftFest3 #KirbyFairy

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Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.

I wrote about the humane, profound and until now quite difficult to find poetry of Essex Hemphill for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"Launch me into the atmosphere and eventually
I'll want to return

to the field
where I was born

despite the fact that it’s burning."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Heaven by Jim Johnstone (2025 Poetry Magazine) tinyurl.com/3d2fn644

Gimp Much folksier than cripple. Used to classify disease. Cross-listed in the OED with gammy. A noun denoting illness or affliction. What we pray to god our kids won't be. Don't tell me that you know how much I've suffered. Or what it's like to struggle in a world that meets your every need. It's time for you to see what you've been missing - to choose your words more carefully.

For the last day of #DisabilityPrideMonth, a poem that first appeared in Couplet Poetry back in 2022.

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Thanks to you, we're halfway there!

This #KFB10 season. The poets. Their works. So good, we simply could not not do this. KFB-style. All of it!

Please join us in support of a GRAND 10TH! #PPTTM
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Pictured: @bengymen.bsky.social "A Sensitive Man" #mains

"he is fine, fast asleep, bathed in the bubbling
orange of his lava lamp."

Ben ROBINSON benrobinson.work
"A Sensitive Man"
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Thanks to you, we're halfway to our doable fundraising goal! Please support, join us, for a GRAND 10TH! #poetrywellserved
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Tennessee. Well-served.

The Bateman. #DavidBateman
The Stedmond. #StedmondPardy

Earlier tonight at #FoyHouse #thevillage

Order from paper view books: paperviewbooks.pt/books/ Europe's finest published of concrete and visual poetry, every book is a triumph of form and content

Suits.

Reminded of this Edwin Morgan poem today. #edwinmorgan @carcanet.bsky.social

Current. #bedside
New. @henricole.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Poet meets chapbook.

Celebrating the release of new translations by @evanpjones.bsky.social "Relations" #anstrutherpress with publisher Jim Johnstone at the fabulous fresh Cà Phê Rang on Spadina.

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She Who Has No Masters #SWHNM
Yellow Yellow
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Unmistakably KFB. #PoetryWellServed #joinus
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Philip HARE @philiphare.bsky.social
UNDERSTATEMENTS
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Edgy, defiant, unmistakably KFB. #joinus
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Get more from knife fork book on Patreon Poetry. Well-served.

Our July/August Fundraising Goal is doable. To raise our Patreon from 43 current paid members to 100 at $10/month.

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"It's all about the fries."

Our Delectable "Sides"
Edgy, defiant, unmistakably KFB. #KFB10
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@amandaearl.bsky.social #MatthewWalsh @philiphare.bsky.social #HelenRobertson #JosephDonato

As Joan would say, “Yow!”

Chapbook held between two vases containing dried lavender. Cover features a pink pocket with embroidery.

Chapbook opened to the poem “Tonight I swear.”

Rain continues; reading continues. Stevie Manning’s JOAN WOULD SAY from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social.

Tonight I swear / on Leaves of Grass, I am your girl. / I have learned the sex of your wrist with my mouth, I know / your tallest knuckle is always going to be fussy

#poetry #queer #beauty

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The chapbook held in front of a vase of flowers. Cover showing Kirby (beautiful, in repose).

Chapbook opened to the poem “Frociaggine.”

Reading @itsakirby.bsky.social’s SOFTIE from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social during a summer thundershower.

is it really so strange
to think you have
a right to sit in the
light of day without
violence?

#poetry #queer #beauty