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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:16 AM

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

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:50 AM

Cavafy, Ian, and Kirby. #today #onthebalcony

from Ian Indiano's forthcoming KFB Fertile Series project, "Sweet Marie" #intheworks

Winter 2027 #KFB10 #poetrywellserved
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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 6:53 PM

Save with a bundle! #KFB10 #fallbaby #fertileseries
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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 6:53 PM

PHILIP HARE UNDERSTATEMENTS
OUT NOW #KFB10
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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 6:53 PM

"...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

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 11:27 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Ange Mlinko

AUBADE. You, my luculent one...
The sky, just restored to blue,
has in it a ghostly stone, blunted
to a pearl-like lumen I have hunted,
if not to possess, then construe
as my call to brighten . . .

@itsakirby.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:19 AMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 1:41 AM

A special day. #KFB10 #poetrywellserved @fisherlibrary.bsky.social #smallpressfair #today

Thanks to all who came out... so sweet to see (& meet) you!

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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 6:42 PM

"Come hither,
booklovers..." #ThisWay >>>

SATURDAY. 10-5. @fisherlibrary.bsky.social
#KFB10 #poetrywellserved #kirbyfairy +++

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:27 PM

She's already packed. Soon come baby!

@jacobwren.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 8:19 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 2:02 AM

why?

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 11:34 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

HINDSIGHT

The two of us running up Fifth Avenue,
Michael, a long leap of a lad
in his black church clothes
and his brother's brogues,
and his hair flying,

and me with my brimmed hat hooping
down the steps of St. Pat's
till it's cocked on the wind's head,
bent on blowing me clean
out of my senses.

Oh, why did I let that boy go?
God himself loved the sight of us.
I would be the blue light in his eye,
the left one, the farseeing one,
the one he's rubbing now, maybe.

-NANCY WILLARD

@itsakirby.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 12:39 AMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

This glorious bird.

Thank you Katya Nosko #greatescapebookstore

kirby fairy @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
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@dapowell.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 11:49 AMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

@emdubbleu.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 2:25 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

@bookgaga.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 2:35 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

"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...

@hollay.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 PMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 1:48 AMReposted by @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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

William Carlos Williams

SMELL!

Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed
nose of mine! what will you not be smelling?
What tactless asses we are, you and I boney nose
always indiscriminate, always unashamed,
and now it is the souring flowers of the bedraggled
poplars: a festering pulp on the wet earth
beneath them. With what deep thirst
we quicken our desires
to that rank odor of a passing springtime!
Can you not be decent? Can you not reserve your for ardors
for something less unlovely? What girl will care
for us, do you think, if we continue in these ways?
Must you taste everything? Must you know everything?
Must you have a part in everything?

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social Sep 1, 2026, 2:48 PM

"fly robin fly up up to the sky" #SALE #poetrywellserved
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