[NEohioPAL] Latitudes Poetry feat. Leila Chatti March 20

[Theresa Gottl Brightman]

 *Latitudes Poetry Night*

*Featuring Leila Chatti!*

*Wednesday, March 20 @ 7pm*
*Compass Coffee*
*647 E. Market St, Akron, 44304*

Leila Chatti was born in 1990 in Oakland, California. A Tunisian-American
dual citizen, she has lived in the United States, Tunisia, and Southern
France. She is the author of the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African
Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya. Her poems have received prizes from
Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, and
the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, among others, and appear
in Best New Poets (2015 & 2017), Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry
Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review,
Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Rumpus, and other journals and
anthologies. In 2017, she was the first North African poet to be
shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She
currently serves as the Consulting Poetry Editor at the Raleigh Review and
lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow
in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University.

Don't forget to bring a piece to read during our open mic!

Latitudes Poetry Night takes place every 3rd Wednesday of the month at
Compass Coffee in Akron.
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