Each October
A new session begins
with the primal dance of the Meters
Do you sense something missing from your poetic and/or spiritual path? Many of us are missing the heartbeats that are our birthright. Shamans and medicine workers, bards and griots, have always used poetic meters to heal, inspire, work magic, spread joy & pleasure, and connect with nature and the sacred,
So can you.
Our year’s adventure through the potent rhythms of nine remarkable meters is starting soon, led by revered poet and prosodist Annie Finch, known as the “queen of meter.”
Until our first class begins at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET on Wednesday October 15, you can register for Annie’s 5 core offerings as a group, attaining a level of interweaving learning that has the potential to change your life, and save over 50% on tuition.
Registration in Póěmágǐc Yéar Entitles You to . . .
Your potent exponential immersion in skills, impossible to find elsewhere, for immeasurably enriching words & life!
Already know this is just what you need? Click to claim your spot and join Annie in your year of Póěmágǐc!
Or, maybe, you just need to ask —
ANNIE, PLEASE REMIND ME — WHY METERS AGAIN?
Well, in the words of one student, “learning meters is like receiving the keys to the universe!”
Did you know that “Meter” and “Mother” come from the same ancient word-root?!
Like the footsteps of Goddesses marking paths home through the lonely desert of this patriarchal world, meters offer us a deliciously exact path to the Divine Feminine.
I believe this is why Meters are central to ceremony in ancient cultures around the world. And we need them too!
Meters’ primal connection with rhythmical meaning and joy, our birthright in 
body, heart, and spirit, is the best way I know to re-mother ourselves on every level.
And Póěmágc Yéar offers you the inspiration, knowledge, structure, practice, and guidance to nourish and support you on your journey.
Meters, like yoga, are best learned through direct transmission. I have devoted my life to teaching as well as writing and performing them, because I believe this knowledge is a sacred torch for us to pass on–one that can heal the language itself.
Click below to claim your spot or read on for the full details of Póěmágǐc Yéar.
If you still have questions or want to talk briefly on the phone, do feel free to reach out to me. I’d love to speak with you!
Yours in love, poetry, & meters,
Annie
Here are details on all that’s included . . ..
1. POEMCASTING CIRCLE (9 CIRCLES)
Póěmágǐc Yéar includes a full annual cycle of Poemcasting Circle (held 4pm PT/7 pm ET on the first Wednesday of each month October-June). Here’s a full description of this sacred poetic gathering:
Inspired by ancient traditions and Annie’s own personal practice, explore how the energies of the five sacred directions—South, East, North, West, and Center—can offer insight into your current life journey.
We’ll begin with journaling and sharing in a supportive environment. Then, using a poetic practice called Meter Magic, we’ll shape our intentions into a simple, powerful spell—a poetic “amulet” you can return to for strength and inspiration throughout the month. This beautiful gathering calls a new Meter into your life in a personal, practical way, setting the stage for your month’s intention.
No prior experience with poetry or magic is needed for Poemcasting. Come as you are—curious, tired, joyful, uncertain. There’s space for all in the circle.
More About Poemcasting
2. ForMal Feeling Workshop (9 CLASSES)
Póěmágǐc Yéar also includes a full annual cycle of my legendary Formal Feeling Workshop (held 11 am PT/2 pm ET on the third Sunday of each month October-June). Here’s a full description of this exciting deep-dive for passionate poets:
Are you ready to deepen your relationship with meter and verse?
Formal Feeling Workshop is a monthly deep-dive into the rhythms of poetry and their power to shape language, thought, and even personaforaml feelingl growth. Through workshopping your own poems in meter and form, you will learn to read, scan, write, and understand each meter on the deepest level from a poet who has devoted her life to this craft. These classes combine technical learning and literary understanding with creative exploration.
Whether you’re a seasoned metrical poet or have recently begun exploring magic of rhythm, this class offers tools to:
- Strengthen your poetic craft
- Appreciate metrical poetry more deeply
- Use poetic rhythm as a tool for personal insight and empowerment
3. SPIRAL OF METERS MEMBERSHIP
Póěmágǐc Yéar also includes a year’s membership to Spiral of Meters, the learning space Annie personally designed within Poetess Priestess Community.
Spiral of Meters is a space for women and gender non-conforming people to practice a diversity of meters within a fun, supportive community attuned to the spiritual energies of each meter. Each month offers poems, videos, a generative peer writing group, a collaborative writing experience, and more in the Meter of the Month.
4. DIRECTIONS SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION
Póěmágǐc Yéar also includes a year’s paid level membership in Annie’s Poetess Priestess Substack.
The subscription gives you full access to all posts on all 5 Directions topics including Poetry, Meters, Matriarchy, and Magic, including Annie’s classic essays and of-the-moment thoughts on meter in ancient, classic, and contemporary poetry, scansion, the Divine Feminine, matriarchy, sex, politics, ritual, art, life as a woman today–and how it all fits together. As a paid member, you have complete commenting access to every post and to Annie’s new podcast, “The Poem, The Meters, The Magic” Membership also includes unlimited access to the archives and “studio audience” attendance at any livestreamed events.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
Annie Finch is a poet, speaker, writer, and ritualist in devotion to the sacred rhythms of the Divine Feminine. Her seven books of poetry include Eve and Calendars (both finalists, National Poetry Series) and Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, awarded the Maine Writers Award), and her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and onstage at Carnegie Hall. Annie’s collaborations with artists in music, theater, and dance have been produced in venues including Chicago Art Institute, Spoleto Festival, American Opera Projects, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her verse drama Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams received the Sarasvati Award from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Annie earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University, has taught widely, and served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. Her book A Poet’s Craft has been described as “nothing less than an MFA program in 700 pages” and is used in graduate and undergraduate classrooms along with her books and anthologies A Formal Feeling Comes, Villanelles, Measure for Measure, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, Lofty Dogmas, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, and others. She received the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to prosody and has lectured at universities including Harvard, Berkeley, Toronto, Delhi, Kinshasa, and Oxford and performed at venues including Jaipur Literary Festival, Deepak Chopra Homespace, and Emerging Women. She is the founder of Poetess Priestess Community and travels widely from her home in New York City to speak, teach, and perform her poetry.
TESTIMONIALS
“Thank you so much for such a beautiful mind and spirit-expanding experience. I will carry the tools you have given me in my chest of magic moving forward.”
—Maria Garcia Teusch, author of The Swans of Berlin (Brooklyn Poets)
“These classes are so intense and rewarding . . .Your teaching is blowing my mind. . . . working this way allows me to grow inside.”
—Richelle Lee Slota, author of Letters to My Dead Name (The Formal Feeling Workshop)
“An amazing class! I felt like I came in off the side of the road and onto “the path.””
—Sapphire, author of Precious and The Kid
“Annie Finch taught me to discover the music in my own body. . . I have never encountered again anyone so unflinchingly passionate about the art of poetry and so dedicated to its potential. My confidence on the page and my
continuing joy in the possibilities of the written line can be traced to the moment I found Annie Finch and said “Teach me to listen.”
— Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner
“Annie embodies the poet-priestess lineage of Enheduenna. . .We experienced the rhythms of language in the body and allowed words to arise and flow into those rhythms. To do so is a radical act.”
Garuda (Meter Magic Gathering)
“Annie is the teacher that many of us yearn for, and some are lucky enough to work with. There is such a need for her earth and heart-based teachings.”
—Monique (Casting the Spells of Your Life Retreat)
FAQ & DETAILS
Your potent exponential immersion in skills, impossible to find elsewhere, for immeasurably enriching words & life!
Answers to a few frequently asked questions…
What is the Curriculum of Meters? Poemcasting Circle will spend one month apiece channeling anapests, iambs, trochees, dactyls, amphibrachs, cretics, heterometrics, dipodics, and cadences. For those who are inspired to continue with each meter for the rest of the month after Poemcasting Circle, resources, prompts, and support for writing the Meter of the Month will be available in the Spiral of Meters during the same month, along with possible additional classes in Poetess Priestess community on the same meters. Formal Feeling Workshop, while each month’s session is open to any metrical or formal poetry, will also be very welcoming of poems in the Meter of the Month, and we will discuss these together at the beginning of the workshop to maximize metrical understanding!
Am I ready? Will I need to Have Experience? While I promise that even the most seasoned, metrical poets will find much to learn, NO experience at all in meter is necessary to benefit fully from Póěmágǐc Year. Each circle and class will be fully self-contained, and because of the nature of the material and my teaching style, everyone learns equally from thoses at every level of experience. All you need is to show up with a notebook, an open mind, and an open heart!
What is the Time Commitment? The events require no preparation. If you’re in listening mode, your commitment will only be the 3 hours a month we spend together. On the other extreme, if you immerse yourself in mistressing meter, commit actively to writing and revising each Meter of the Month, watch the videos and do the reading in Spiral of Meters community, and bring your revised poems in the Meter of the Month to Formal Feeling Workshop for my feedback, then you might expect to spend 2-4 hours a week in addition to our 3 hours a month together. It’s all good!
What is the Cost? I am passionate to pass along this knowledge that I truly feel can help heal our words and our world–and I feel that the synergy of these 4 practices is the best way to do that. So, in thanks for your enthusiasm and commitment to the magic of meter, I have priced this overarching opportunity at a juicy discount!
Tuition: $1333/year
Refund Policy: A full refund, minus single-class-rate tuition for classes already taken, will be available throughout the first month of enrollment. After that time, no refunds will be possible.
Scholarships: Limited scholarship assistance may sometimes be available; check with Annie.
Here’s how the cost and value breaks down (click images for more information on individual components).
Total Value $2725
Póěmágǐc Yéar $1333
Savings $1392
ANNIE ON "WHAT GOOD IS METER FOR POETS?"
Invitation to reach out
As we move through the year, from month to month in our cycling dance of shared rhythms, you will experience the amazing powers of the meters to weave their healing patterns through your words, thoughts, and days!
Is this the immersion you’ve been needing to bring everything together?
Then you can reserve your place on the journey here!
Yours in love, meters, & magic,
Annie
I can’t wait to see you in our opening circle on October 15th!
love & meters,
Annie
