May 11, 2025

Anastasia K. Gates

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Anastasia K. Gates is a writer, editor, and artist from the Great Appalachian Valley of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the shortlist for the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize and her work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Oxford Poetry, Some Kind of Opening, Counterclock Journal and elsewhere. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Columbia University in the City of New York.

silence is more deadly than the devil

       and my most haunting song.

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POEMS 

With my poems, I look directly into death. It’s easy to turn away from certain things, but within my poems, I turn towards it. And as I examine it, my intention is to reconsider it and rebuild my relationship.

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