Temporary Kingdoms
A Craft Class with Danusha Lameris
5 Sundays
July 13th to August 10th
4PM-5PM PT
Cost: $250
All worlds come to an end. The worlds of childhood, the brand-new love affair, the world of once-was. Who we used to be. Where we used to live. The dream that never came to be. Poems are one of the ways we capture what is (or was/ or could be), press it to the page for safe-keeping. And a big part of what energizes written work is the sense of pointing toward home, toward something we hope to preserve, or arrive at, even if only in hope or memory. This is the everlasting allure of Eden, of Yeats’s home in “a bee-loud glade.”
Class 1: Kingdom of the Fleeting Moment
Class 2: Kingdom of Youth
Class 3: Kingdom of Home/Homeland
Class 4: Kingdom of the Love Affair
Class 5: Kingdom of the Idyllic Home
Register Now
Frequently Asked Questions
About Danusha
Litfield Writers Community
About Danusha Lameris
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
