April 30 2026
Inspirational Poetry Performance: Snakes and Muses
New York
Poets Annie Finch and Jane LeCroy spellcast a spiral of snaking spells with harpist Anna Bikales. Giancarlo Luiggi opens with poetry of Rumi translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
At Blue Moon Hotel, 100 Orchard Street, NYC
May 07 - 14 2026
Workshop: "Demystifying Meter" at Brooklyn Poets
Online
This intensive two-session, online workshop will open the gates of five core poetic meters with clear, subtle techniques to make them your own. In the process, you will replace outworn hierarchical ideas of meter with a framework grounded in indigenous poetic contexts and matriarchal life ways.
Past Events
April 15 2026
Ploughshares Launch Party for Spring 2026 Issue Edited by Annie Finch
Annie Finch introduces readings by issue contributors Gabrielle Bates, Jane Huffman, Jenna Le, and Karen Winn
At Trident Bookstore, 338 Newbury St.
Boston, MA
April 13 2026
The Writer's Life — Speak It Thrice! Craft Talk
Annie Finch talks writing and editing through the body, including generative poetry writing exercise and Q & A
At Ploughshares Offices Conference Room, Emerson College
Boston, MA
March 13 2026
"Lost Heartbeats of the Goddesses: Metrical Diversity as Ritual Language" Presenter at Mythologium
Time TBA
Online
March 06 2026
Fierce Feminist Formalists Poetry Reading
Kim Addonizio, Tara Betts, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Moira Egan, Annie Finch, Julie Kane, Alexis Sears, Richelle Lee Slota, and Patricia Smith
At Ash Bar, Ulysses Hotel, 2 East Read St., Baltimore
March 05 2026
Casa Poetica Workshop
Magical workshop on the rhythm of earthaa
At Matriarchal Writers Lounge
Baltimore
December 22 2025
Solstice Premiere of "Winter Solstice Song"
Annie will perform and congregation sing Music Director Robert Buonaspina's new setting of "Winter Solstice Song” in the Solstice service
At Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, 160 Central Park West
New York, NY
October 25 2025
Poems, Spells, Curses: A Halloween Poetry Performance
Sleepy Hollow, NY
"Annie's performance was magical!"
"There is such a need for her wisdom"
"This woman is worth her weight in gold."
"I learned to hear the music in my body."
"Annie is a poem-whispererl!"
"The audience went wild over her reading"
