Peggy Dobreer
Poet | Mentor | Facilitator
curator of slow lightning
"Dobreer's approach……..
is magical."
-Janet Fitch, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
HISTORY & COMMUNITY
"Dobreer offers a choreography of negations and reversals, where we may become "whole in our singularity," where the negative space around the dancer becomes another kind of dance. Forbidden
Plums is an elegy for the living by a poet at the height of her powers."
-Chad Sweeney, Little Million Doors
FORBIDDEN PLUMS:
Poems in quarantine
published by Glass Lyre Press
Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry Release Reading
Fond Poem Film by Janine Parkinson
"These poems are precise and personal; they are of cups and bowls and bones and winds. Of mortality and fallibility, of soaring and touching the ground…she builds them with deftly sensed lines, merciless insight and exquisite craft, weaves them with wit and passion and an infallible ear for the music of words." -Ricki Mandeville
IN THE LAKE Of YOUR BONES, 2012
and Drop and dazzle, 2018
PUBLISHED by MOON TIDE PRESS
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Peggy Dobreer
is a Los Angeles poet, mentor, curator and writing facilitator with three published books of poetry: Forbidden Plums, with Glass Lyre Press; Drop & Dazzle and In the Lake of Your Bones with Moon Tide Press.
She is a graduate of Whittier College, studied poetry at Charles University, School of Anglophile Studies in Prague and was awarded the 2017 "Poetry Matters Prize” from The Downey Symphony Orchestra in association with NASA.
Dobreer has work in a variety of publications, most recently: Kyoto Journal: Reflections from Asia, Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe, Micro Lit Journal from Birch Bark Editing. Her poems have been included in Voices From Leimert Park: Redux Anthology (Harriet Tubman Press for Tsehai Publishers); Aeolian Harp Folio Series Vols. I and V, (Glass Lyre Press). Everything About You Is Beautiful, Yoga Magazine, and Poetic Diversity online among others.
A former choreographer, designer, and lifelong experiential researcher of somatic practice and mystical traditions, Dobreer was a Program Director at AROHO2015, in Abiquiu, New Mexico where E=Mc2bodied Poetry Workshops were born . She is a Community of Writers Poetry Alum, has assisted novelist, Janet Fitch in online fiction workshops at Community of Writers, and is curator and facilitator at Slow Lightning Lit.
Dobreer Is editor of Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry, Anthology Volume I released in December 2021 and Volume II, Slow Lightning: Astonished Poetry, released September 2023.
Embodied Poetry Workshops:
A lifelong teaching artist and former dancer, Dobreer brings movement, contemplative practice, human development, peace studies, visual craft, and an enduring love of words to her workshops and mentees. She migrated to poetry through an early professional life in live theatre and a thirty year practice in Neo-Modern Dance and Contact Improvisation.
Dobreer taught ten years in the Mysteries Program for Human Development at Crossroads School. She co-authored 64 Ways To Practice Nonviolence, a peace studies curriculum aligned with Language Arts Standards; earned certificates in Prime of Life Yoga and Sanskrit Studies in India; and studied poetry with Sarah Maclay and Brendan Constantine at LMU and James Ragan at Charles University in Prague.
In 2015, Peggy served as a Program Director for A Room of Her Own Foundation, AROHO2015 Women's Writing Retreat, at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, where she introduced and explored Somatic Writing Practices which have become the foundation of E=Mc2bodied Poetry Workshops, Slumber Write Marathons and her daily Slow Lightning: Meditation and Writing Practice online. She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize.