Nov. 12: Good Thunder Reading Series Features Poet Leila Chatti
Thursday, November 12, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
First Event
Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato will host poet 
Leila Chatti (pictured) on Thursday, Nov. 12 as the fourth writer who will virtually attend this year’s Good Thunder Reading Series.
All Good Thunder Reading Series events are free and open to the public, and this year the events will be held virtually. A registration link for Chatti’s visit is available at https://gt.mnsu.edu/this-years-events/leila-chatti/.
The Nov. 12 event begins with a workshop from 10-11 a.m. on Zoom. Later that day, Chatti will hold a “Talk on Craft” from 3-4 p.m. on Zoom.
Events will conclude with Chatti holding a reading of her work from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on Zoom.
Chatti, a Tunisian-American dual citizen, is the author of “Deluge” (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master of fine arts degree from North Carolina State University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. She is the recipient of many fellowships and scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative writing, the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the inaugural Anisfeld-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University.
The Good Thunder Reading Series, in its 39th year, is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
The 2020-21 Good Thunder Reading Series receives support from the Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment and individual donors. Additional assistance comes from the Emy Frentz Arts Guild and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State Mankato.
For more information contact Candace Black at 507-389-2680 or visit gt.mnsu.edu.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,604 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.
