“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.

Mockler & me

My admiration for Kathryn Mockler is huge—as a writer, editor, community-builder, activist, teacher, human being—the privilege to know & trust her as a colleague and friend. An intimate. Such care. She’s one of those very few people in a life who has indelibly informed and changed me, so that I cannot imagine a life without her. Add lifesaver to the list. No one makes me laugh out loud like The Mockler.

This Tuesday, we bask in our friendship, reading our work to each other & you. Join us.