The Soul Craves: Poetry and Conversation with Danusha Laméris
“We live in a culture that is a very hungry culture because so many of the things that our souls crave are not what we are feeding ourselves.”
Award-winning poet laureate Danusha Laméris discusses her stunning works and how she integrates the different facets of life to express the curiosities and wonders of the world around us, held in space by the memory of a moment in time.
She is no stranger to profound and deep loss, and speaks about writing not only from a place of grief, encouraging us not to push them away, but to excavate them carefully and push ourselves to the edge of discovering joy and pleasure once again.
Danusha also gifts us by reading two of her poems aloud, “The Watch” and “Stone.” Her poetry reads like watching a film, bringing us into the world of the storyteller on a sensory level, and reminding us why we need poetry in our lives.
Meet This Episode's Guest
danusha LamÉRIS
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 was the 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She teaches poetry independently, and is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County, California.
Check out Danusha’s website to learn more and immerse yourself in her gorgeous works!
