Leila Chatti

Mostly off the internet this summer, but popping on quickly to share that I’m teaching a 3 hour workshop with @Tin_House in June! If you’re looking to liven things up a bit with your poems, or just a fun way to spend a Sunday, come hang! 🥳⚡️ tinhouse.com/product/summer…

Long time, no tweet! Creeping back on to share a little poem—sincere gratitude to @commonmag for publishing it, a journal I greatly admire. It’s available to read online, and in incredibly good company—highly recommend checking this issue out! ☺️🌸 thecommononline.org/issues/issue-2…

Popping back on after a hiatus from this here app to say I’m going to be at AWP! If you’ll be there, say hello! ☺️🌸

Very excited to share the cover for WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME!!! ❄️🩵💫 In bookstores Sept. 2 & available for preorder now! Thank you so much, @CopperCanyonPrs! 🤍

Thank you for sharing in my excitement about my forthcoming second collection, WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME! 🥹🥰 I’m starting to plan my book-adventures Sept. onward & would love to come read with/near/for you! 👀 I have lots of flexibility & much enthusiasm! Let’s chat! 💌

This year’s bringing something exciting…! ❄️ WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME, my second full-length collection of poems, will be published Fall 2025 with @CopperCanyonPrs, and I am so excited to share it with you! 💫

— Jane Hirshfield

“What comes after the desperate vulnerability of hope? The radiant candor of loss—’one good thing / undone.’ ... FIGMENT is one of our best young poets at the height of her powers.” —Kaveh Akbar on Leila Chatti's powerful FIGMENT #BlackFridaySale

I’ll be teaching in the online workshops with @kenyonreview this winter! ❄️💫

I have been taking my sweet time with DELUGE by @laypay (@CopperCanyonPrs) because these poems are so incredible and intense and vivid and after I read one I have to sit still and remember how to breathe. #deluge #leilachatti #exegesis

As a Michigander, I’m particularly thrilled to have 2 poems in the newest @mqr_tweets! Thank you to the MQR team for being dreams to work with. 💙 “Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself” borrows its title from an Anne Sexton line, & you can listen here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2024/07/on…

The wonderful @DanushaLameris curated an absolutely beautiful bonanza of favorite poet/humans in the newest issue of @AQReview, and I’m very grateful to be among them! Here’s one of my little poems (from a bigger something 😉). Thank you, Team AQR, for your support of my work! 💕

Book 6 of the #SealeyChallenge DELUGE from @laypay Vivid, intelligent, evocative. This book is a tour de force at the intersection of faith, womanhood, and illness.

i am not at the center of anything/ when the real story starts. behold the calm beauty in @laypay's "once in a while i am reminded"

So, @laypay & I just finished the last installment in my zine series, Ether Nests! It’s got 6 new poems by each of us!! & you can download free digital or printable copies from the “Free Zines” page on my site!! + another huge announcement, re: the zine series, is comin soon 👀

Beginning the month with this gorgeous piece from @laypay’s FIGMENT, from @BullCityPress:

I am thrilled to have three new little poems in the recent gorgeous (and stacked!) issue of @poetrynw! Thank you so much to Keetje Kuipers and the team for their support and care with my work. Here’s one of them! 💛

Only temporary peril—another Thursday. Blood remains primarily inside my body. The scream of the animal is for attention. —Leila Chatti (@laypay) in the May issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4b3KKKJ

grateful i got to publish this gorgeous short lyric by @laypay—read it today in @poetry_daily! yalereview.org/poems-on-the-d…

Happy end of January! I have a teensy poem up at @poetrynw, one of my favorite journals. 🤍 Sincere gratitude to the editors! ❄️ poetrynw.org/leila-chatti-j…