Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series: Joanne Leow, Garth Martens, Fenn Stewart

Please join Simon Fraser University’s Department of English and Poetry in Canada for a poetry reading featuring our own Professor Joanne Leow and Garth Martens and Fenn Stewart.

Details:
Date/Time: Friday, March 27th (Doors: 6:30 PM; Readings 7-9 PM)
Location: SFU Belzberg Library (SFU’s Harbour Centre campus – 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver)

*Free Event; No RSVP Required

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Joanne Leow is Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Decolonial Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her first academic monograph is “Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise” (Liverpool University Press, 2024). She is also a poet and writer with a debut collection of poetry, “Seas Move Away” (Turnstone Press, 2022) and a forthcoming creative-critical memoir, “Exhumations: In the Body of a Petrostate” (Alchemy Press, 2026). Her writing and research interests lie at the intersections of spatial theory, decolonial theory, postcolonial studies, transnational and diasporic texts, and the environmental humanities.

Garth Martens is the author of “Prologue for the Age of Consequence” and “Who Else in the Dark Headed There”. For his first book, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in “Dark Mountain Project”, “Poetry Ireland”, “Hazlitt”, “This Magazine”, “Vallum”, “Fiddlehead”, and “Best Canadian Poetry”. He is a co-founder and producer for Palabra Flamenco, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Fenn Stewart is the author of three chapbooks and two poetry collections – “Better Nature”, which was longlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize, and “women & roosters” (2025). A former editor of “The Capilano Review”, she continues to serve on the magazine’s editorial board. Stewart holds a PhD in social and political thought, and teaches literature and writing at Capilano University. She lives with her kids, and the world’s nicest dog, on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

Venue Accessibility

This in-person event takes place at the SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. It is easily accessible by transit and near SkyTrain. The campus is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible washrooms. Gender neutral washrooms are also available.