Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series: Cole Mash & Lauren Peat
Schedule
Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
515 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 0B2, Canada | Vancouver, BC
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Please join SFU’s Department of English and Poetry in Canada for a poetry reading featuring Cole Mash and Lauren Peat on Friday, November 28th (Doors: 6:30 PM; Event: 7 PM). This event takes place at SFU’s Belzberg Library at Harbour Centre campus.*This is a free event; no RSVP required
Bios
Cole Mash (he/him) is a writer, spoken word artist, and community arts organizer who lives on unceded Syilx-Okanagan territory in Kelowna, BC. He has performed poetry locally and nationally for over ten years, and his creative work has been published across Canada, including in CV2, Pinhole Poetry, and NōD magazine, and anthologized in The Quiet Minds Anthology. His lyric-memoir, What You Did is All it Ever Means, was published with Broke Press in 2021. His scholarly work has been published in Scholarly and Research Communication and he is the co-editor of Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound from McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of Kelowna-based non-profit arts organization Inspired Word Café. Currently, Cole is the 2025 City of Kelowna Artist in Residence and teaches English and Creative Writing at UBC Okanagan and Okanagan College. He has a wonderful partner, four kiddos, and two kitties whom he loves all the way to the bottom.
*Cole Mash is also an SFU English alumnus.
Lauren Peat is a writer and translator. Her debut poetry chapbook, “Future Tense”, was published by Baseline Press in 2024, and her poems, essays, and translations from French have appeared in journals such as Asymptote, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, The Seventh Wave, and World Literature Today. Translation Editor of the poetry magazine Volume, she regularly curates features and long-form interviews exploring the art of poetry in translation; her bilingual writing has also been performed by acclaimed vocal ensembles across the country. Selected by poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner as one of seven Citizen Poets working across Vancouver, she recently served as the Poet-in-Residence of Enabling Arts, a multidisciplinary creative space in the Downtown Eastside.
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