Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series
Featured poets: Sneha Subramanian Kanta & Ted Landrum
+ Open Mic for poetry in any language
Host: Bänoo Zan
Time: Tuesday, July 21, 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.
Born in Mumbai, Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an academician, writer, and editor. She is the author of six chapbooks, most recently Redapples falling still and Every Elegy Is a Love Poem. She is the sixth Poet Laureate of Mississauga. Her work has been widely anthologized internationally, including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. She was the 2025 Woodhaven Artist in Residence at The University of British Columbia. She leads the biodiversity niche in the international climate-focused project, Manufactured Ecosystems, and is a founding editor of Parentheses Journal.
Ted Landrum is a teacher, critic, artist and poet. Published widely, he is maker of Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems (2017), two collaborative poetry chapbooks – Room to Room: Poetry & Architecture in Conversation, with Ingrid Ruthig and Komi Olaf (2018), and Table for Four / Eccentric Crops (2020), with Steven Ross Smith, Jennifer Still and Colin Smith – and NYGist (1997). Thrilled to be teaching architecture at TMU, Ted has been bringing poetry into architecture and architecture into poetry for 30 years. Find a recent interview, “The City is 1,000 Poems”, in Poetics of Place, a free eBook (TU Delft Open, 2025).
Event Poster: Ghazaleh Zarrinzadeh
This event is partly supported by the League of Canadian Poets.
