BookWoman 2nd Thursday Poetry and Open Mic featuring Danusha Laméris

BookWoman is thrilled to welcome Danusha Laméris as our feature for the 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading and Open Mic. Laméris will be reading from her newly-released third collection, Blade by Blade, for this Zoom-only event. Cindy Huyser hosts; an open mic follows.

Danusha Laméris, a Pushcart Prize winning 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, will be released October 22, 2024 from Copper Canyon Press.

Be sure to register for this event via EventBrite, and to log into your Zoom account with email and password prior to accessing the meeting.

Contact BookWoman to order your copy of Blade by Blade and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com .

Host or Publisher Cindy Huyser