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Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) CXV Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series
Featured poets: Katerina Vaughan Fretwell & Asante Haughton
+ Open Mic for poetry in any language
Host: Bänoo Zan
Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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.
Katerina Vaughan Fretwell's 10th and 11th books, Familiar and Forgiveness, Ace of Swords, and Holy in My Nature, Silver Bow Publishing, appeared in 2024. Her chapbook, What a World, 2025, won Third Prize in Golden Grassroots Chapbook Contest. Her eighth poetry book, Dancing on a Pin, Inanna 2015, was longlisted for the Lowther Prize and was part of The International Festival of Authors Battle of the Bards. Her eighth, Class Acts, Inanna 2013, was listed on Kerry Clare's Blog 49th Shelf as a notable book of 2013. Her poems have appeared in Woman Life Freedom and Poems in Response to Peril anthologies. Her art is on the cover of all but one of her poetry collections.
Asante Haughton (he/him) is a mental health professional, speaker, activist, and writer. His poems, essays, and fiction explore difficult and hidden truths of the human experience, seeking to encourage compassion for the complicatedness of human emotion and behaviour. He has previously published works in AfriCANthology (www.africanthology.ca/), a collection of writing from Black Canadian authors. Asante is currently working on an autobiography entitled, "I'm Not Supposed To Be Here". When he's not writing, Asante is curating lived experience narratives as the Manager of Storytelling at Unsinkable, an organization that amplifies stories to support folks on their recovery journeys.
Event poster: Ghazaleh Zarrinzadeh
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Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7, Canada
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