Leila Chatti Reading and Book Launch

Sun, September 14, 2025 4:00 PM - Sun, September 14, 2025 6:00 PM at University United Methodist Church, 1120 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing

Hosted and co-sponsored by the Lansing Poetry Club

Join us as we welcome Leila Chatti at the Lansing Poetry Club's Copper Chimney Lounge Poetry Series! The afternoon will open with a reading from her newest collection, "Wildness Before Something Sublime," (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Following a break and refreshments, the event will continue with an open mic. 

Free and open to the public; donations to the Lansing Poetry Club accepted.

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Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Wildness Before Something Sublime (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize, the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, as well as four chapbooks. Her honors include multiple Pushcart Prizes, grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Cleveland State University, where she was the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing. Her poems appear in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, POETRY, and elsewhere. She is a Provost Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and teaches in Pacific University’s M.F.A. program.