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"

Award-winning feminist poet and writer Annie Finch is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Spells, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells and an epic poem on abortion, Among the Goddesses. Other works include verse drama, collaborations, anthologies including Villanelles and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, and the writing guide A Poet's Craft. Annie's poems have appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Annie earned her Ph.D from Stanford, has lectured at Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford, and received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry and the Robert Fitzgerald Award.  After several decades of teaching poetry in universities, she now teaches online on Youtube and in Poet & Priestess Community, offering classes in poetry, meter, and magical living and writing.

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