AWP26 Offsite Event: Indie Press Happy Hour at Red Emma's with Two Lines Press, Dorothy, a publishing project, and Deep Vellum Decenter the Anglophone universe! Come together for drinks and readings from award-winning translators.

Hey, join us, @deepvellum.bsky.social, and @twolinespress.com at Red Emma's in Baltimore for Indie Press Happy Hour on Thursday 3/5 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

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KFB 10 SPRING 2026 BUNDLE OF BLISS "This, our celebratory 10th Anniversary Season, was simply too good not to do." - Kirby, Publisher knife | fork | bookYour KFB 2026 Spring Bundle awaits. And, it's fire. Poetry bliss. HELEN ROBERTSON ...

Spring awaits. #KFB10

HELEN ROBERTSON Lesbia
BEN ROBINSON [A] Sensitive Man
R. KOLEWE Holonomy
JIM JOHNSTONE Eye For An Eye
MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
AMANDA EARL + MATTHEW WALSH Slutflowers
JAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carol

Poetry bliss. #bundle
www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p211/K...

And yet the Ford government will take over multiple school boards on the premise that they have mismanaged their finances.

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...

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
www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p206/J...

{A] Sensitive Man Ben Robinson

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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I wanted to try and write something joyful that still thinks about death. All the gratitude to @itsakirby.bsky.social for keeping poetry alive.

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....

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

www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...

Thanks Paul!

I was very excited to write a poem for Paul Vermeersch’s new ekphrastic project! These always generate some really great stuff.

Alberta Treaty Territories. It's all of it. No part can separate.

NEW @thedonpyle.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social

DON PYLE
Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories From a Life in Music

SPRING 2026 Available for Preorder
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I can’t wait to ask for a bite of @bengymen.bsky.social’s sandwich!

Ten years of #poetrywellserved #KFB

BEN ROBINSON [A] Sensitive Man @bengymen.bsky.social

JAMES LINDSAY Choral Coral Carol @james-lindsay.bsky.social

Spring 2026
Available for Preorder
knifeforkbook.shop

That Jane Remover album is absolutely bananas.

How Anna Burns’ Milkman perfectly articulated the experience of life during the Troubles | The Booker Prizes Colin Crummy, who grew up in South Armagh, explains how Anna Burns’ Booker winner Milkman held up a mirror to a world of suspicion, surveillance and groupthink

In a personal essay, Colin Crummy reflects on the lasting power of Milkman by Anna Burns, our Monthly Spotlight pick for December, and considers how this Booker-winning novel captured the lived reality of the Troubles.

🔗 Read the full article below.

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/jehhn9nrrq

Pre-order my new chapbook from the spectacular @knifeforkbook.bsky.social! Kirby does the lords work in publishing amazing poetry in beautiful books.

A joy to work with James @james-lindsay.bsky.social again. This one sings/soars... a new stratosphere. #glory @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
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Tom Waits - "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis" (Live at Austin City Limits, 1978) YouTube video by Tom Waits

Its easy to say "the best Christmas song is the one where Springsteen yells numbers at the audience" but the true honour goes to Tom Waits doing "Silent Night" as a bit before launching into his own Christmas classic, where the audience laughs nervously at the "Charlie I'm pregnant" line

Kirby asked me if I had another chapbook in me so I wrote this, hopefully, joyful long poem about singing, dancing, and groups without leaders. With love to @itsakirby.bsky.social & @knifeforkbook.bsky.social.

Kirby asked me if I had another chapbook in me so I wrote this, hopefully, joyful long poem about singing, dancing, and groups without leaders. With love to @itsakirby.bsky.social & @knifeforkbook.bsky.social.

So pretty. @knifeforkbook.bsky.social #KFB10

Very much looking forward to this! Congratulations.

Trump talking to Zohran is giving huge my grandfather talking to me about my career energy

No, I just want it to stop spitting at me.

The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.

Makaya McCraven, On The Record The distinction between composition and improvisation has always been fraught territory in the discourse surrounding jazz; some artists have argued that all music begins as improvisation, and what mak...

My latest jazz column is up at @stereogum.bsky.social - I interviewed drummer/producer Makaya McCraven about his four new EPs (also available as a double LP/double CD), and reviewed 10 other excellent new releases:
www.stereogum.com/2327057/maka...

Toronto recognized a priest for her book on a church encampment. Then, it tore it down | CBC News Dozens of people gathered outside a church in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood on Thursday as city staff began clearing another homeless encampment, deemed to be a fire hazard.

Toronto recognized a priest, Rev. Maggie Helwig, for her book on a church encampment. Then, it tore it down.
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Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

Joni Mitchell, Jazz Artist? A look at the 'Joni’s Jazz' box set. Plus: the best jazz releases of the month.

My latest column for @stereogum.bsky.social is up; I wrote about the new jazz-oriented Joni Mitchell box with help from @annkpowers.bsky.social, @themountaingoats.bsky.social and Linda May Han Oh, and reviewed a bunch of great new releases as well:
www.stereogum.com/2324112/joni...