I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan

Poets....Are you ready to reclaim your lost birthright, the languages of rhythm & enchantment? My 9-month cycle of legendary meter-and-magic classes starts next week. For a full immersion, register for Póěmágǐc Yéar by October 15. Hope to see you there! anniefinch.com/poemagic-year/

"The Naming" : A Poem for 9/11

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Haley Robson nails the perfect description of #patriarchy: ”,you’ve got the bad guys and the good guys, and the bad guys are silencing the good guys which makes it impossible for the good men to stand up in situations like these to defend the women."

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The Goddesses are alive and rising fast!
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portrait of a fembot

Happy Ostara Eve! Here's Eostre, later Ostara-- the sun, dawn, spring goddess from whom we get the name Easter (and east, estrus, & estrogen!) This Victorian image may look airy--but the powerful original sun #Goddess sure feels like Fire. Time for some spring poems in passionate #Anapests maybe?

Magical Poets! Meter Magic Spiral Journey will start soon. This intensive mistress-class in reading, scanning, & writing meter focuses on deep scansion, metrical diversity, and a nurturing environment where minds open, inner powers shine, limitations dissolve. Full info at classes.anniefinch.com.

this month in Meter Magic Community, we are channelijg the meter of the Dark Goddess who carries life and death—and look who I find in an amazing home that I visit near the end of my sojourn in Mexico

@randolphlundine.bsky.social set up a welcome discount link for my first class there! Now's your chance to fall in love with poetic meter!

this was a happy day, celebrating publication of #apoetscraft from U Michigan Press with my wonderful meter student #PatriciaSmith. I’m happy this book has helped spread awareness of poetic craft including the joys of #poeticmeter, poetic form, and #metricaldiversity! Viva the heartbeats of poetry!

Over the last few decades, I've been developing this system of associations between meters and other aspects of life, based on decades of writing in #meter, doing ritual, and teaching meter to thousands of students. Until my book on the 5 Directions is done, here's an overview! #metermagic

Someone left a #wirehanger in the stairwell. When I saw it, i thought #abortion; my uterus cramped up and hurt. Still hurts 20 minutes later. happens almost every time I see one. I haven’t had that kind of abortion. Is this generational? a kind of sympathetic magic? Does it happen to anyone else?

If y'all don't know about Hobart Festival of Women Writers, check it out! I loved the whole experience of being there, including this great conversation with the insightful #BreenaClarke...

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My sisters, we're burning—
but not in THAT fire—
the spiral's at hand
where we gather and flower!

—Annie Finch, from "The Spiral's at Hand"

#SpeakitThrice!