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 As poets, sometimes it’s overwhelming to know where to begin. In this workshop, we’ll start with the lens of scale. Depending on how you look at it, the page itself can seem immense or small. Our subject matter can be a pebble, or an entire landscape. A story that unfolds in the world of an ant, or that crosses whole galaxies. We will practice using the lens of proportion and scale to write our poems, describing the most minute details, and then arcing out into immensity. My hope is that you––and all of us!––will write things that will change the way we see. Seeing deeply is one way we can love the world, even when that looking reveals what is unlovely or difficult. We will find beauty in the broken and the wholeness of the whole. 

Prepare to attune your senses to wonder!

There will be take-home writing prompts  All levels welcome.

Dates: 5 Sundays in March, from the 2nd to the 30th

4PM-5PM (Pacific Time)

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Take the class in community

You will have access to an online community where you will be able to connect with your fellow poetry lovers!

Poems and Prompts

You will receive a poem packet every week with poems that Danusha will be teaching from.  During class she will offer take home writing prompts.

Live Video Class

This is a live video class! This is a webinar style class where you will be able to ask questions of Danusha in real time. 

Your Instructor

Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. 

Danusha is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and was honored by the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She served as the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.

Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. Her poem Small Kindnesses has been translated to multiple languages, quoted in O Magazine, turned into a short film, and was recently read by actress Helena Bonham Carter.  

Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award.

Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and recipient of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. 

Her third and newest collection, Blade by Blade (2024)  is now available through Copper Canyon Press.

Danusha is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program.

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