Ongoing Classes
Poetry Workshops
Thursdays from 6-9, and Tuesdays from 11-2. A safe and fun place to share work and receive feedback while learning more about how to read and craft a poem. Open to participants from beginning to advanced. Curiosity, dedication to learning, and a love of language are the only prerequisites.
I aim to connect students, not only to an understanding of craft, but also to their own particular strengths as writers.
I am also, as of fall 2020, offering four-person "Poetry Pods" for deeper study, and to make some one-on-one work available. Feel free to contact me for more information about these.
Testimonials:
"Danusha Laméris is welcoming and caring, the embodiment of supportive. Her line edits are spot-on, as is her skill in clarifying meaning. Possessed of an uncanny ability to apprehend her students’ vision and style—the atmosphere of the world each poet inhabits—she fosters each writer’s unique voice. Moreover, she is astute about where that voice fits in the larger landscape of current American poetry. On several occasions, she accurately predicted which poems of mine would be published and in which journals. It is inspiring to witness her help students craft powerful poems from tentative beginnings, all the more so because of the graceful way she enlists the group in the process. The pitfall of attending poetry workshops is that the soulful edges of poems can be smoothed away. Fear not! There is no such risk in Danusha’s workshops."
--Dion O'Reilly
"I appreciate Danusha's ability to get to the probable intent of poems, to understand that that grief can be passionless, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, that dream ships might be about unkillable hope, and more examples than I can recall right now. All good teachers must be able to do this, I think, and I enjoy how she does it, gently, aesthetically, and intuitively."
--Catherine Gonick
Contact me at: Lameris@yahoo.com
Poetry Workshops
Thursdays from 6-9, and Tuesdays from 11-2. A safe and fun place to share work and receive feedback while learning more about how to read and craft a poem. Open to participants from beginning to advanced. Curiosity, dedication to learning, and a love of language are the only prerequisites.
I aim to connect students, not only to an understanding of craft, but also to their own particular strengths as writers.
I am also, as of fall 2020, offering four-person "Poetry Pods" for deeper study, and to make some one-on-one work available. Feel free to contact me for more information about these.
Testimonials:
"Danusha Laméris is welcoming and caring, the embodiment of supportive. Her line edits are spot-on, as is her skill in clarifying meaning. Possessed of an uncanny ability to apprehend her students’ vision and style—the atmosphere of the world each poet inhabits—she fosters each writer’s unique voice. Moreover, she is astute about where that voice fits in the larger landscape of current American poetry. On several occasions, she accurately predicted which poems of mine would be published and in which journals. It is inspiring to witness her help students craft powerful poems from tentative beginnings, all the more so because of the graceful way she enlists the group in the process. The pitfall of attending poetry workshops is that the soulful edges of poems can be smoothed away. Fear not! There is no such risk in Danusha’s workshops."
--Dion O'Reilly
"I appreciate Danusha's ability to get to the probable intent of poems, to understand that that grief can be passionless, as Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, that dream ships might be about unkillable hope, and more examples than I can recall right now. All good teachers must be able to do this, I think, and I enjoy how she does it, gently, aesthetically, and intuitively."
--Catherine Gonick
Contact me at: Lameris@yahoo.com