Thanks for your interest in The Nine Lenses of Poetry!

This is no longer a live event but you are welcome to purchase it as a recording. 

You will have access to watch and re-watch classes for 12 months.

FOR QUESTIONS EMAIL ARMANDO AT [email protected]

with Danusha Laméris

Are you an Innovator? A Soul Keeper?

There are so many ways to write poems. And so many kinds of poems to read.
Sometimes, it’s easy to think there's a right way to write, or a wrong way. Or just that we don't–––and can’t–– relate to certain types of poems.

What if there were a way to hold all the different styles without judgment, to see what a poem has to offer and what it offers the same way we might study an animal in its own biome?

This is what coming up with the Nine Lenses of Poetry has done for me. It’s given me new ways to appreciate all kinds of poems, as well as a way to frame my own work.

My hope is that by spending time studying these Nine Lenses, you will be able to strengthen your own poems, and to deepen in your appreciation of poetry.

This will an online Zoom class. No prerequisites. You don’t even have to be a writer! Just a reader, and someone who is curious about poetry.

In five, one hour sessions, I offer craft talks on the Nine Lenses, contemplations and prompts.

5 Sessions:

1. Introduction to the Nine Lenses and Outline of the Class, Soul Keepers
2. Bards of the Everyday and Wry Observers
3. The Nimble Elegists/Sad Jesters and Dreamtime/Magical Realists
4. Uncomfortable Truth Tellers and Innovators
5. Poetry of Witness and Eco-Poets

Run of Class

• Go over 1-2 poetry lenses
• Read Sample Poems 

To purchase this class plus The Path of Poetry, Small Worlds, Infinite Universe, and Writing the Broken Poem, plus access to a community of writers with 4 live events per month and opportunities for receiving direct feedback and more, you can purchase a plan with Litfield Community

For any additional questions, contact Armando at [email protected]