Slow Lightning Lit
Where Mindfulness Meets the Muse!
Slow Lightning Lit is somatic meditation, sensory activation, and membership writing practice, online … out of which publishing and fine literary events are imagined. Join us!
Welcome to Slow Lightning Lit—where somatic meditation and synaptic engagement merge with Dobreer’s passion for dynamic, embodied, poetry, performance and literary arts.
We invite you to join our daily writing practice online. Reach out to Peggy at slowlightninglit@gmail.com to drop in and visit. Memberships available for those who stay.
“Dobreer’s approach is magical.”
- Janet Fitch, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
We foster a mindful, whimsical, and dedicated community of poets and writers who engage actively, as their schedules allow. United by a passion for listening, expression, and connection through guided meditation, synaptic calisthenics, writing prompts, and gentle feedback.
“Peggy not only deepens our craft, but helps us deepen our understanding of why we write.”
- Arthur Kazakian, Book of Redacted Paintings
📅 Monday–Friday | One-hour daily online session
🕣 8:30am–9:30am PST | Join us from the comfort of your home via Zoom
Founder & Artistic Director
Peggy Dobreer
Dobreer is the founder and artistic director of Slow Lightning Lit, and editor-in-chief of Slow Lightning: Lit anthologies and a few “uncommon books of poetry,” including As Man Is To God: a Poem on the Making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo by Andrew Nicholls, Lamenting While Doing Laps In. the Lake by Bill Ratner, and Mammal One by Guy Zimmerman.
A former dancer, casting director, and talent wrangler, Dobreer is a Los Angeles based poet, performance and teaching artist, community activist, and somatic practitioner. A four-time pushcart nominee, she is author of three published collections: Forbidden Plums 2021, Glass Lyre Press, Drop and Dazzle 2018, Moon Tide Press and In the Lake of Your Bones 2012, also Moon Tide Press, with over a hundred poems in publication in the U.S. and Internationally,
photo by Dakota Raine Baynham
Slow Lightning Titles
Come in and Browse….
“WOR(L)D MATTERS: Slow Lightning Lit Anthology IV”
“Mammal One” by Guy Zimmerman
“Lamenting While Doing Laps in the Lake” by Bill Ratner
“Living Poetry” by Murray Mednick
“As Man Is to God: A Poem on the Making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo” by Andrew Nicholls
“Slow Lightning Lit Anthology III: SLANT, Folio Edition” with Contributors:
Jacinta Camacho Kaplan, Celia Chavez, Mandy Rae Hartz, Esther Cohen, Lorraine Despres, Peggy Dobreer, Darothy Durkac, Janet Fitch, Ruthie Marlenée, Roberta H. Martínez, Murray Mednick, Andrew Nicholls, Colleen O’Mara Diamond, Simon Petty, Amy Raasch, Bill Ratner, Georgia San Li, June Stoddard, Nancy Lynee Woo, and Guy Zimmerman.
Our Authors are Accomplished in many Fields including: Comedy, Film, Theatre, Playwriting, Voice-Over, Grief Counseling, Education, Creative and Analytic Writing. For readings, keynotes, and workshop options please reach out to review additional professional CV’s, and to consider bookings designed for your Poetry Community, Non-Profit Event or University Program.