“If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from the fact that not not enough rich, white, heterosexual men have gotten AIDS for anybody to give a shit.”*
*VITO RUSSO, This Is War: Insights Into A Fag & Drug User Uprising (Fierce n Fabulous, 1988)
“PTBR PRIDE… TAKE COVER!”
“Can you smell that… in the air? What is it?” “Pride, baby. Pride.”
KIRBY RETURNS for PETERBOROUGH PRIDE w/Special Guest STEVIE MANNING
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 7PM TAKE COVER BOOKS
KIRBY’s work includes she (KFB, 2024), Last Licks (Anstruther Press, 2024), Behold (2023), a stage adaption of Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021) What Do You Want to Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020) & This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019). Their column, “The First Time” is a regular feature at Send My Love To Anyone. They are the publisher at knife | fork | book.
Stevie Manning lives in Toronto, where they write poetry and work as a barber. Their debut chapbook, Joan Would Say, is out now from KFB.
“Have you ever fallen in love with a place?”
“And the joy of a good pop song.”
KIRBY 