Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night) CXXIV


"Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) CXXIV

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series

Featured poets: Sheila Stewart & Keith Garebian + Open Mic for poetry in any language

Host: Bänoo Zan

Time: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Place: Living Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7 This is an in-person event open to the public.

Open Mic Sign-up: 6:30 PM at the venue Open Mic Duration: 3 minutes Show: 7-10 PM EST Admission: $10-20 Sliding Scale Cash at the door There is an ATM machine at the venue.

Sheila Stewart publications include three poetry collections, If I Write About My Father (2024), The Shape of a Throat (2012), and A Hat to Stop a Train (2003), and a co-edited anthology of poetry and essays, The Art of Poetic Inquiry (2012). Awards include the Scarborough Arts Council Windows on Words and the Pottersfield Portfolio Short Poem Contest. Her poetry, essays, and book chapters have been widely published in Canada, and in the States and Ireland. Sheila lives in Ktaronto and can be found walking in High Park, along the shores of Lake Ontario, and at www.sheilastewart.ca Keith Garebian of Mississauga has won international acclaim for his theatre books and he has been widely praised for his poetry collections Frida: Paint Me as a Volcano; Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems; Children of Ararat; Poetry is Blood; Against Forgetting; in the bowl of my eye; Finger to Finger; and his chapbooks Scan, Areté, and Family Song Stitching. He has had some poems adapted to music and modern dance, and he has been honoured by an anthology (A Disciplined Passion: Essays on the works of Keith Garebian) and by inclusion in the third volume of Laurence Hutchman’s In the Writers’ Words.

Event Poster: Ghazaleh Zarrinzadeh & Ishaa Vinod Chopra

This event is partly supported by the League of Canadian Poets. "