About the Workshop

Stuck on a poem that just isn’t… working? You’ve tried to revise it, but nothing seems to be doing the trick? Join me for Poetry Re-Play, the revision workshop that gives you permission to act your shoe size and invoke your inner child to use puzzles, games, and make-believe to look at your poem with new eyes. Participants will leave the workshop with new inspiration and new ideas for approaching the revision process. Bring a poem draft that you feel needs more work.

About Anne Marie

Anne Marie Wells is a Pushcart- and Best of the Net-nominated poet as well as a playwright, memoirist, and oral story-teller. She is the founder of The Joy of Poeting and Star Belt Press through which she published her book of writing prompts, Write Some Cool Sh!t, before publishing Happy Iceland. She also traditionally published two collections of poetry: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v) which won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Chapbook Contest and debuted in 2024. She also authored two children’s books: Mamã, porque sou uma ave? / Mommy, Why Am I a Bird? (Imprensa Universidade de Coimbra, 2015) and Underwater Explorers & Rescuers (Ethical Seafood Re-search Publishing, 2025).

She is a certified listener poet through The Good Listening Project and earned a certificate in social emotional arts through The Arts & Healing Initiative. She is the content and copy editor for Mama’s Kitchen Press and works as a freelance copy editor, ghostwriter, writing coach, and creative writing instructor.

When she’s not writing, she’s reading, enjoying long walks in the outdoors with her family, completing The New York Times crossword puzzle, or jazzercising at her local YMCA.

Learn more at AnneMarieWellsWriter.com or on many social media channels @AnneMarieWellsWriter.

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