Sealey Challenge Day 22 Tunsiya / Amrikiya by Leila Chatti "There is no world in which I am not haunted, no willing God to relinquish me."" just. yes. Leila Chatti Bull City Press 🐂 @thesealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge #theSealeyChallenge2023 #poetryreallymatters #readmorepoetry

"I saw you shadow of / a shadow / maybe I thought / I made you / up / a dream / I had a dream / all / but gone upon waking" opening lines from FIGMENT by Leila Chatti #OnSaleNow

SIR fall 2023 Twenty-six Contributors Salute, Day 21: Leila Chatti! Leila Chatti leilachatti.com

Read "Poems on the Divine," a folio of nine new poems by Tarfia Faizullah, Lisa Russ Spaar, Leila Chatti, Khadijah Queen, and more, edited by talin tahajian 👁: yalereview.org/poems-on-the-d…

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! ☺️🌸

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

grateful i got to publish this gorgeous short lyric by Leila Chatti—read it today in Poetry Daily! yalereview.org/poems-on-the-d…

Long time, no tweet! Creeping back on to share a little poem—sincere gratitude to The Common 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…

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

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…

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

So, Leila Chatti & 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 Leila Chatti’s FIGMENT, from Bull City Press 🐂:

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

Suzanne Frischkorn Craig Santos Perez Eugenia Leigh Book 6 of the #SealeyChallenge DELUGE from Leila Chatti Vivid, intelligent, evocative. This book is a tour de force at the intersection of faith, womanhood, and illness.

The wonderful Danusha Laméris curated an absolutely beautiful bonanza of favorite poet/humans in the newest issue of AlaskaQuarterlyReview, 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! 💕

As a Michigander, I’m particularly thrilled to have 2 poems in the newest Michigan Quarterly Review! 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…