Poetry Lounge featuring Danusha Laméris!

Saturday, November 9th, 1:00 p.m. (PST)
via Zoom

POETRY LOUNGE featuring Danusha Laméris!

Saturday, November 9th, 1:00 p.m. (PST).

Hosted by Lesa Medley!

Contact Lesa Medley to receive your Zoom link: lcmedley016@gmail.com

Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. 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. 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 second book, Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and recipient of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, and is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program. Her third book, Blade by Blade, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com