Orison Books' Annual Benefit

Join us for a special evening of poetry with Leila Chatti and Rebekah Denison Hewitt! Their books will be available for purchase. Attendees will also have their choice of any two complimentary Orison Books titles. Don't miss this opportunity to support independent publishing and to help Orison Books continue publishing spiritually engaged literature from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives! Additionally, Chatti and Hewitt will lead an intimate poetry workshop on Saturday, Oct. 24! Find details here. Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and the author of Wildness Before Something Sublime (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of The Levis Reading Prize, The Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and longlisted for The PEN Open Book Award. Her honors include multiple Pushcart Prizes, grants from The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Cleveland State University, where she was the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, POETRY, and elsewhere. She teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program and lives in Cincinnati. Rebekah Denison Hewitt is the author of the poetry collection Creature in Bloom, a finalist for The National Poetry Series and published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 2026. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals including Narrative, The Rumpus, Poetry Northwest, and The Pinch. She lives in Wisconsin, where she works as a school librarian.