Thank you a million times, @itsakirby for hosting so generously today. Thank you also for letting me take this piece of beauty with me: pic.twitter.com/78379bCZbA
Follow KIRBY on Instagram and Twitter@itsakirby to meet them at various locations/settings, buddy booths, park benches, stairwells, nooks and cranies throughout Montreal’s “boyville.” Both one-on-one and open public readings. Live. Copies of THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF will be available to purchase (signed, w/photograph).
for the faint of heart. “Cocksuckers know. It’s a calling.” – @HNamir
"I haven’t always been this pretty. I used to be a tough nut, dead fucking serious. I’d always go for my jugular. Now I choose a feather duster over a machete."
“think of a heart-racing first date at a 5 star restaurant the back door of which opens into a steamy alley, loaded with Allen Ginsberg’s “saintly motorcyclists” and Kirby’s “bevy of bears,” and this is the astonishing new poetry collection, THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF” @TheForce777pic.twitter.com/jVVUDisr3e
MONDAY JUNE 18TH WHITBY PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL BRANCH 7PM
“Remember that wonderful gay guy everybody loved who had way too much fun serving readers at Oakville Public Library (til that evil Janice got rid of her)?”
It’s exactly one year ago that KFB’s first little chapbook launched, KIRBY’sSHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY, cleverly disguised as a pink bon bon with legs that kick. Four printings later, nearly 400 copies sold, fellow KFB poet JONATHAN GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) and myself invite you to celebrate with us this TUESDAY MAY 1ST reading at SPOONBILL BOOKS in Brooklyn. She’ll be having one, reading from Doris and mostly new material from my forthcoming full-length, THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF. Starts at 7PM. See you there.
KIRBY SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY JONATHAN GARFINKEL BOCIANY (STORKS) TUESDAY MAY 1ST 7PM SPOONBILL BOOKS 99 MONTROSE AV BROOKLYN
02/04/18 DORIS is going into her 4th [and FINAL] PRINTING, Finishing touches for NEW FULL LENGTH THIS IS WHERE I GET OFFleaks, and she’s gone NATIONAL
KIRBY at PIVOT READING SERIES with MELANIE MAH + SAM SHELSTAD WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7TH in the TIKI ROOM at the TRANZAC CLUB 8PM HEAR AUDIO HERE
