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About Anne M. Doe Overstreet

Anne M. Doe Overstreet is the author of Delicate Machinery Suspended. Founder and editor at Spine-Line editing, she is also the associate editor of DMQ Review.

Poetry Classroom: Sour Plums

By Anne M. Doe Overstreet 21 Comments

Plum Blossom by John Morgan

In this final week of Poetry Classroom with Anne M. Doe Overstreet, we invite you to consider signing up for Anne’s 2013 Poetry Workshop.

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Poetry Classroom: Immolation

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Icarus Poem photo by Sean McGrath

Welcome to the Poetry Classroom. You are invited to discuss the poem ‘Immolation’—its form, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.

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Poetry Classroom: Shade Half Drawn

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In the Poetry Classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.

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Poetry Classroom: Public Safety Film

By Anne M. Doe Overstreet 34 Comments

In the poetry classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.

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New Year’s Poem: Resolutions

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A resolutions poem from Anne M. Doe Overstreet for the New Year.

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On Writing Poetry: Crafting Bells from Twigs

By Anne M. Doe Overstreet 8 Comments

Face Overlaid with Branches

As winter diminishes, there is, always, a flourish of up notes in untended orchards, fierce and insistent as Mozart’s “Jagdsinfonie, ” though this is not a vigor that will result in the largest fruit, the highest productivity. Those trees are marvelous in their spindled wildness. A first draft, if you will, quilled and unruly. Wavering […]

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Journey into Poetry: Anne M. Doe Overstreet

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Curious Cat Poetry Journey Anne Doe Overstreet tweetspeakpoetry.com

I cannot remember a time when there was not a passion for cadence and knowing and naming. This is the stuff of poetry.

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