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 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 Poetry, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and 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.  She teaches online on Youtube and in Poetry Witch  Community, offering classes in poetry, meter and scansion along with ritual, women-centered spirituality, and spellcasting.

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