The ground is a disloyal friend Disaster is my shelter
I look for a corpse – report myself missing –
Ghosts haunt my ruins in a dream I don’t want to remember
Bänoo Zan
Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 200 published poems and three books. Song of Phoenix: Life and Works of Sylvia Plath (2008), Songs of Exile (2016; shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award by the League of Canadian Poets) and Letters to My Father (2017). She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Toronto’s most diverse and brave poetry and open mic series (inception: 2012) that bridges the gap between ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions. Photo credit: Rumman Rahman
