Annie Finch

"This brave, loving weaving
is singing our lives back,
and women are ready . . . "

 —  "Amulet for Brave Women"

"In the center of the new flowers,
a darker wing of fire
points you like a flower. "

 —  "Summer Solstice Chant"

Annie Finch is a poet, speaker, writer, teacher, and performer who offers spellbinding readings of poetry infused with magic. Her poetry has appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in the Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Dr. Finch earned her Ph.D from Stanford University and traces her descent from witches imprisoned in the Salem Witch Trials, Norse volurs and Celtic bards. She has lectured at Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford, spoken at Emerging Women, and performed Poetry Witch Ritual Theater at Deepak Chopra's Homespace. She now travels to speak about feminism, poetry, and spirituality and to perform her poetry and rituals.   

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