Current Writer-in-Residence

Saturday, March 18, 10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Leduc Public Library 

Shab-e She’r Poetry Open Mic @UofA
Open to poets writing in any language from U of A/ Edmonton/Canada/International community
Time: 6:30-8:45 PM MT
Place: Student Lounge, Arts/Convocation Hall, University of Alberta Campus, Edmonton
Open mic sign-up: 6:45 PM
Open mic set: 5 minutes (please rehearse to make sure you stay within the time limit)
Show: 7 PM
Dates: March 21, 2023, April 25, 2023
Shab-e She'r Poetry Open Mic March Facebook event page

 

 

SAVE THE DATE: On Tuesday, April 4th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, the Writer-in-Residence Program celebrates the 26th annual WiR exchange by hosting Leah Horlick, 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary's Distinguished Writing Program. Join us for an evening of readings with Leah and Bänoo Zan, the 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. The free event will occur on North Campus, with location details are forthcoming. Visit the Facebook page and website for updates! Please direct any questions to twharton@ualberta.ca.

Please note: this event is in-person AND will be live recorded! Readers will use microphones, speakers, and lighting at this event.

For in-person attendees, this event is free, requires no registration, and offers snacks and refreshments. Face masks are strongly recommended on U of A campuses, especially in indooor high-traffic areas. Please visit this page for the U of A's measures about masks and where to get a free face mask on campus.

Access considerations: Please support us by refraining from wearing scented personal products. Printed documents of readings will be shared, so attendees may follow along. Readers will provide content notices before applicable readings. Further access information relevant to the venue will be provided at a later date.

About the Authors:

Leah Horlick is the author of three books of poetry. Her long-awaited, most recent collection Moldovan Hotel was released by Brick Books in spring 2021. Her debut, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for both a ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a Stonewall Honor Title by the American Library Association in 2016. That same year, she won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada’s only award for LGBT emerging writers.

Leah is also the author of wreckoning, a chapbook produced with artist Alison Roth Cooley and JackPine Press. In 2018, her piece “You Are My Hiding Place” was named Poem of the Year by ARC Poetry Magazine and shortlisted for inclusion in the 44th Pushcart Prize. For five years, Leah and her dear friend Estlin McPhee ran REVERB, a queer and anti-oppressive reading series. After many years away, she now lives where she grew up: as a settler on Treaty Six Territory and the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon.

Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor, and poetry curator with more than 250 published poems and poetry-related pieces as well as three books including Songs of Exile and Letters to My Father. She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Canada’s most diverse poetry reading and open mic series (inception: 2012), a brave space that bridges the gap between communities of poets from different ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions. Bänoo is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, Canada from September 2022 to May 2023. Find more on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.