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<div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span>Latitudes Poetry Night</span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span>Featuring Leila Chatti!<br></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span><br></span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span>Wednesday, March 20 @ 7pm</span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><span>Compass Coffee</span></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><font size="4"><b>647 E. Market St, Akron, 44304</b></font><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>
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<span>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.<br></span></a></div><div><br></div>
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