Poetry At The Phoenix returns for round two on October 10! We’re so excited to tell you about this months featured poets: Sanna Wani and Dennis Lee! 



Sanna Wani is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry! She is the poetry editor at Fernwood Publishing and artist-in-residence with The Seventh Wave magazine. 


Dennis Lee published his first book Kingdom of Absence in 1967, the same year he co-founded House of Anansi Press. Civil Elegies and Other Poems won a Governor General’s Literary Award in 1972, and he has since published 15 books of poems, including The Gods, Riffs, Nightwatch, and Testament. He was Toronto’s first poet laureate and received the City of Toronto’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

We are blessed to be able to host poets of such immense talent at our lovely space at 3 Bartlett, we hope you’ll join us!

Show starts at 7:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM, tickets are Pay What You Can at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds!

All funds raised will be split between the poets and the house.

Please RSVP to reserve a seat as there is limited space available: hello@westendphoenix.com !