1 hr 13 min

ep. 40 - Danusha Laméris Rattle Poetry

    • Arts

Episode #40 features Danusha Laméris and her latest book, Bonfire Opera. Danusha has appeared in issues #31, 33, and 68.

Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which 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 poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The SUN Magazine, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. Her second book is Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press), and she is the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.

For more information, visit:
http://www.danushalameris.com/

As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week's Prompt:
A superhero comes home after a hard day at work.

Next Week's Prompt:
Run-on-sentence poem. Write a prose poem consisting of one long sentence (commas and other punctuation ok).

Episode #40 features Danusha Laméris and her latest book, Bonfire Opera. Danusha has appeared in issues #31, 33, and 68.

Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which 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 poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The SUN Magazine, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. Her second book is Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press), and she is the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.

For more information, visit:
http://www.danushalameris.com/

As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week's Prompt:
A superhero comes home after a hard day at work.

Next Week's Prompt:
Run-on-sentence poem. Write a prose poem consisting of one long sentence (commas and other punctuation ok).

1 hr 13 min

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