June 08 2026
Water Ceremony in Lower Manhattan
New York, NY
The Myth Lab Presents an Evening of Sound and Story: New Myths to Reimagine Our Urban Waters. Featuring Annie Finch, David Rothenberg, Haleh Liza Gafori, Ingrid Norton, Joy Elysse, and Laura Simms.
At Collect Pond Park (three blocks below the Canal Street 6/N/Q/R/W/J/Z subway station, bounded by Lafayette, Centre, Franklin, and Leonard Streets)
June 23 2026
Craft Class:"Dancing With VIllanelles"
Online, Through Poets House, NY
Trace the villanelle’s history, variations, and impact to discover its erotic structural secrets and transformational healing powers.
August 10 2026
Colloquium Speaker, Mythological Studies
Carpenteria, CA
A day of learning, journaling, discussion, and ritual where participants can absorb the full meanings of the Five Directions in will, mind, body, heart,and spirit
At Mythological Studies Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute
August 12 - 16 2026
Poetry Camp Faculty, Poetry Society of New York
Woodridge, NY
Joining Mahogany L. Browne and other faculty at this annual, age-inclusive, five-day, four-night summer camp for poets, dreamers, and wild creatives at the bucolic Outlier Inn.
At Poetry Society of New York Poetry Camp
Past Events
May 07 - 14 2026
Workshop: "Demystifying Meter" at Brooklyn Poets
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.
Online
May 01 2026
Bardwitch Performances at Druidfest
As Wandering Bardwitch, Annie will greet visitors with Invocations, bless the waters at boatside, and channel the Meters of the Elements throughout the Fest
Nyack, NY
April 30 2026
Medusa Poetry Witchual: Snakes and Muses
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
New York
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
Baltimore, MD
March 05 2026
Casa Poetica Workshop
Magical workshop on the rhythm of earthaa
At Matriarchal Writers Lounge
Baltimore
"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"
