The Cracked Cup

Writing What’s Broken

with Poet, Danusha Laméris

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH

9:30 – 11AM PT

live online

WITH POET, DANUSHA LAMÉRIS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH

9:30 – 11AM PT

Wild Writing Family members, enter your discount code to save $10!

Not sure what your code is? Check your email invitation or the member site.

By now we know that life is a series of beautifully broken pieces – always heartbreaking – these moments of recognition, these acknowledgments of what is forever lost or changed. And though we may try to mend what’s been ripped and torn away, in the end, we must surrender to what remains, to what stands before us.

Join 27 Powers and beloved poet and teacher, Danusha Laméris, for an exploration into the depth, beauty, and truth found in life’s broken places.

Because the best writing honors the scuffed, imperfect world, Danusha will guide us in exploring how to write into brokenness in ways that bring greater depth and texture to our work-offering a gateway to something sacred.

Through this lens we’ll learn to capture life’s complexity and authenticity, stripping away the illusion of perfection to reveal raw, unvarnished truth. We’ll look beyond what’s polished and into what’s real.

Brokenness invites intimacy. When we write from places of fracture, we build bridges between ourselves and our readers, creating empathy and shared humanity. Writing what is broken helps us find the universal in the personal.

What You’ll Experience:

✨How to Craft Brokenness in Writing

We’ll explore techniques like fragmented syntax, disjointed imagery, and nonlinear thinking to create writing that feels raw, honest, and alive.

✨Finding the Cracks: Opening the Reader’s Door

Learn how to invite readers into your work by offering openings through vulnerability and imperfection.

✨The Sacred in the Scars

Uncover how to use brokenness as a portal to deeper meaning, healing, and transformation in your writing.

We hope you’ll join us for this online class with one of our most cherished teachers and poets, Danusha Laméris.

You don’t have to be a poet to join us – all writers of all levels and genres are welcome

Monday February 24th, 9:30 – 11am Pacific
Classes are recorded.

live online

WITH POET, DANUSHA LAMÉRIS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH

9:30 – 11AM PT

Wild Writing Family members, enter your discount code to save $10!

Not sure what your code is? Check your email invitation or the member site.

about danusha

Danusha Laméris is a poet and essayist. Her third book, Blade by Blade, is out with CopperCanyon Press. 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), was a finalist forthe 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and the winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. A Pushcart Prize recipient, some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, POETRY Magazine, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner.

As the 2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, Laméris co-founded The Hive Poetry Collective: a radio show, podcast, and event hub. She is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program.

I’M EXCITED TO BE PARTNERING WITH CHAPTER 510, A NONPROFIT GROUP IN OAKLAND SERVING BLACK, BROWN, AND QUEER KIDS, AGES 7-18.

Chapter 510 is a writing, bookmaking & publishing center that wants every young person in Oakland to write with confidence and joy. Chapter 510 believes that writing is an act of liberation, and that young people transform themselves and their communities when they write and get published, succeeding in work, school, and life.

A portion of the proceeds from this event will go to supporting their free creative writing programs for black, brown, and queer youth.

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