"Fairy" Book Launch + Reading with KIRBY, Dale Martin Smith, R. Kolewe, James Lindsay and Ben Robinson

The Niagara Artists Centre presents the launch of “Fairy” by Kirby

KIRBY is the author of She (KFB, 2024), Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021), This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019), featured columnist at Send My Love to Anyone, and publisher at knife | fork | book. kirbyfairy.ca

Dale Martin Smith was born in Garland, Texas, in 1967, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and lived in the Republic of Yemen as a Peace Corps volunteer before moving to San Francisco to study poetry at the New College of California (MA, 1996). 

R.Kolewe is the author of several chapbooks, and four collections of poetry, most recently A Net of Momentary Sapphire (Talonbooks, 2023). Echo Studies, is forthcoming from Talonbooks in 2027. He lives in Toronto. kolewe.net 

James Lindsay is the author of the poetry collections Only Insistence (icehouse poetry, 2023 Longlisted for the Nelson Ball Prize), Double Self-Portrait, Our Inland Sea (both Wolsak &Wynn), and the chapbooks The Lake (KFB, 2022 Finalist bpNichol Chapbook Award), Ekphrasis! Ekphrasis! (Anstruther Press), and Labour Day. He lives in Toronto where he works in publishing. 

Ben Robinson is a poet, musician and librarian. He lives in Hamilton, ON on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. His first book, The Book of Benjamin, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2023. His second, As Is, was published by ARP Books in 2024. 

Doors at 6:30 PM | Starts at 7:00 PM