Congratulations to RCAH alum, Leila Chatti, on the publication of her debut collection, Deluge! For ordering details click here. Exegesis I bled. God didn’twant to hear about it. He said uncleanand so it was. He said it isharm, and so it was. Want to hear about it? He said unclean.Once a woman wanted, so heContinue reading “Poem of the Week: “Exegesis” by Leila Chatti”
Tag Archives: Leila Chatti
Poem of the Week: “Waking After the Surgery,” by Leila Chatti
We couldn’t have been more tickled to see this poem from RCAH alumna Leila Chatti’s new book “Deluge” in Friday’s New York Times (and selected by friend of the Center for Poetry Naomi Shihab Nye). Be sure to save the evening of Tuesday, April 21 for a reading here with Leila celebrating the release ofContinue reading “Poem of the Week: “Waking After the Surgery,” by Leila Chatti”
Poem of the Week: “The White Poet Wants to Know Why I Don’t Write More Arab Poems,” by Leila Chatti
The White Poet Wants to Know Why I Don’t Write More Arab Poems Because, while a war blooms at the margins of the other country that claims me, still I am here with my ordinary grief and its language. Because every time I open my mouth I am an Arab opening my mouthContinue reading “Poem of the Week: “The White Poet Wants to Know Why I Don’t Write More Arab Poems,” by Leila Chatti”
An interview with Leila Chatti, poet and former RCAH student
Poet and RCAH graduate Leila Chatti’s poem, “What Do Arabs Think of Ghosts” was recently selected by Tracy K. Smith to appear in the annual anthology, Best New Poets. RCAH Center for Poetry intern Kelsey Block interviewed Chatti, who now lives in France, via email about the upcoming anthology: KB: What first interested you inContinue reading “An interview with Leila Chatti, poet and former RCAH student”
The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU 