Meet Peggy
Photo and Art: Linda Cheryl Frye
Dobreer is a poet and master teacher,
an explorer of experiential pedagogy..
Peggy Dobreer has been calling up circles of dancers, musicians, actors, poets and thinkers for as long as she can remember. When you think of Peggy think editor, choreographer on the page; think Poetry Matters awardee and Moon Tide Press author; think coordinator of many parts and pieces, think Long Beach without parking, Somatics with a purpose; think of the thinking body, the feeling brain, the laws of physics that govern stellar bodies and human bodies in motion; think copper and iron and stardust; think Founder, Micro Publisher and Artistic Director of Slow Lightning Lit.
Photo: Elena Secota
Dobreer is a Los Angeles poet, parent, former dancer, five-time pushcart nominee, and author of three published collections: Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine, Glass Lyre Press, Drop and Dazzle and In the Lake of Your Bones, with Moon Tide Pres.
Dobreer’s poetry highlights include having a billboard on Hollywood Boulevard forNational Poetry Month, a winning poem on display at NASA headquarters after receiving a Poetry Matters Prize on a space related theme, and reading at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the New Story Stage. She has received fellowships from Community of Writers, Charles University in Prague and the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles at Occidental College.
Dobreer has been interviewed on KPFK radio and has been featured in Cultural Weekly, Yoga Magazine, Aeolian Harp Review Vol. I & V, and was most recently published in Pratik’s Special Noir Edition and Kyoto Journal: Reflections on Asia. She has work upcoming in Spillway Magazine and Aeolian Harp, Vol. XI.
Photo: Alexis Rhone Fancher
Peggy in the Media
