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Annie Finch
@anniefinch.com
Author Spells: New and Selected Poems, Eve, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, & 20 other books. Stanford Ph.D. Priestess of Meters. Poetry Witch. Activist. Speaker. Performer.
🌀 Point your flower—like a fire—
#SpeakItThrice! #MagicHappens #GoddessesRising
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
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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/
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The Naming" : A Poem for 9/11

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September 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Goddesses are alive and rising fast!
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August 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
portrait of a fembot
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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?
April 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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.
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@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!
February 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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!
January 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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?
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 PM
November 23, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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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November 23, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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!
November 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM