May 11, 2025

Anastasia K. Gates

Anastasia K. Gates

Anastasia K. Gates is a writer, editor, and artist from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and awarded the shortlist for the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize, her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Oxford Poetry, The Penn Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Only Poems, Plainsongs and elsewhere. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from Columbia University in the City of New York and she is currently at work on her debut and second collections of poems.

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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