The 2021 Writers Studio Pushcart Prize XLV Celebration
Mar
5
7:00 PM19:00

The 2021 Writers Studio Pushcart Prize XLV Celebration

Leila Chatti, Lydia Conklin, Meng Jin, Dustin Pearson, Luis Alberto Urrea, David Wojahn will read from their award-winning piece and current work. Pushcart Prize’s founder/editor Bill Henderson introduces. This reading is free and open to all, and will be live-streamed via zoom webinar.

Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e8jyLff1SrKKlods3jrW4g

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Wisconsin Book Festival
Sep
22
8:00 PM20:00

Wisconsin Book Festival

Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Program in Creative Writing, this edition of Wisconsin Wednesdays features UW Alumnae Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for her new novel, Starling Days, and Leila Chatti for her new poetry collection, Deluge.

Join the event at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/starling-days--deluge. Before the event begins, you will see a countdown and the event image.

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Apr
4
1:00 PM13:00

The 10th Annual Westchester Poetry Festival

  • 49 Clinton Avenue Dobbs Ferry, NY, 10522 United States (map)
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Reginald Dwayne Betts (Felon, Norton), keynote reader, will join Leila Chatti, (Deluge, Copper Canyon Press), Lynn Emanuel (The Nerve of It, Poems New and Selected, Pitt Poetry Series), Margo Taft Stever (Cracked Piano, CavanKerry Press) and two other poets as they read from their most recent collections.

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AWP OFFSITE: Big Beautiful Copper Canyon Book Release
Mar
7
7:00 PM19:00

AWP OFFSITE: Big Beautiful Copper Canyon Book Release

  • Holy Spirit Hall in the Healy Murphy Center (map)
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Join us for an AWP20 off-site poetry reading and celebration of new titles by these extraordinary Copper Canyon poets:

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AWP: Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press - Leila Chatti, Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, Monica Sok
Mar
5
12:10 PM12:10

AWP: Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press - Leila Chatti, Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, Monica Sok

  • Henry B. González Convention Center (map)
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R184. Fierce Lineage, Poetic Agency: Women of Copper Canyon Press. (Leila Chatti, Ellen Bass, Traci Brimhall, Victoria Chang, Monica Sok) Reading from their own new and recent poetry collections while paying homage to a powerful lineage of female-identified poets, a diverse lineup of Copper Canyon Press authors will share poems of survival and love, desire and illness, of bodies that move with agency and voices that speak with complexity. Each reader will present, in addition to her own work, one poem by an influential woman author from Copper Canyon's 45+ year catalog.

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Mar
5
9:00 AM09:00

AWP: Two Decades of Arab Lit: Making Space for Complexity

  • Henry B. González Convention Center (map)
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R120. (Lana Salah Barkawi, Elmaz Abinader, Joe Kadi, Mohja Kahf, Leila Chatti) Since 1999, the multidisciplinary Arab arts organization, Mizna, has published an eponymous literature and art journal dedicated to centering work from Arab American writers, which, twenty years later, remains the only such printed space. Mizna has long prioritized the authentic reflection of our community’s complexities while inviting a non-Arab readership to meet the writing on its own terms. An acclaimed literary cadre will read and reflect on the history and current state of Arab American literature

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Raleigh Review's 10th Anniversary Reading
Feb
21
7:00 PM19:00

Raleigh Review's 10th Anniversary Reading

RALEIGH REVIEW began as a blogzine called Rig Poetry on February 21, 2010. Over the past decade, Raleigh Review has evolved into a nonprofit organization that publishes an award-winning literary magazine that believes great literature inspires empathy in neighbors everywhere in the world. Readers include Bryce Emley, Landon Houle, Leila Chatti, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, and Tyree Daye.

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Coast to Coast: 60 Years of Poetry Northwest
Mar
29
5:30 PM17:30

Coast to Coast: 60 Years of Poetry Northwest

(AWP Offsite)

With Camille Dungy, Geffrey Davis, Erika Meitner, Keetje Kuipers, Alix Ohlin, Nancy Lee, David Hernandez, and Ed Skoog’s bluegrass band The Hill Williams. Along with musical and literary performances, your ticket includes wine, a selection of some of the most innovative food that Portland has to offer, a mini-broadside, and really good company. Beer and signature cocktails available to purchase.

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32 Poems, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Pleiades, and Quarterly West
Mar
28
7:00 PM19:00

32 Poems, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Pleiades, and Quarterly West

(AWP Offsite)

With Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Randall Mann, Marcus Wicker, Kaveh Akbar, Edgar Kunz, Natalie Shapero, Maggie Smith, Gabrielle Bates, Tiana Clark, Diane Seuss, William Archila, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Amorak Huey, Justin Wymer, Destiny Birdsong, F Douglas Brown, Tyler Mills, Susannah Nevison, Meghann Plunkett, David Welch, Dorothy Chan, Brandon Courtney, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, and Carlos Price-Sanchez.

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