MCC Daily Tribune

Poet Danusha Lameris Conducts Poetry Writing Workshop

The Creartive Arts Committee of MCC is pleased to announce the first visiting writer for its 2023-2024 Creative Reading Series. On Wednesday, October 18, from 1 to 1:50pm, poet Danusha Laméris will conduct a poetry workshop via Zoom. The event, which is free and open to the public::  

Join the Zoom poetry presentation.

Members of the MCC community may also enjoy a pre-recorded reading of Danusha's original poetry (https://monroecc.video.yuja.com/v/DanushaLameris_BonfireOpera) which can be viewed at any time:

Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist. 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, POETRY, The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and Orion. She was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and her second book, Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the Paterson Award, and the winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. As the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, Laméris co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective: a radio show, podcast, and event hub. She is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program, and along with James Crews, co-leads the online Poetry of Resilience series and HearthFire Writing Community.

Anthony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy
10/18/2023