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Fareh Malik and Kate Marshall Flaherty will read their poetry before an open mic segment for anyone that would like to share their work.

Fareh Malik is a BIPOC man from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word artist and emerging written...

Fareh Malik and Kate Marshall Flaherty will read their poetry before an open mic segment for anyone that would like to share their work.

Fareh Malik is a BIPOC man from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word artist and emerging written poet. Fareh was named the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winner. He was also the winner of Hamilton Art’s Shirley Elford Prize, The 2022 October Project Poetry Award, and MH Canada's 2020 Poetry Contest.

Kate Marshall Flaherty recent books are Titch, Piquant Press 2023, and Digging” Aeolus House, 2022. She's been published in CV2, Vallum, Grain, Room, Trinity Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Event and Tamarack Review. She was shortlisted for the Mitchel Poetry Prize 2021, and Arc’s Poem of the Year 2022. She writes spontaneous Poems Of the Extraordinary Moment (P.O.E.M.s) for charity, in person and online, and guides StillPoint Writing and Poetry Editing Circles online and in person.

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