Event Archive

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

November 16 2025

Formal Feeling Workshop: Priority, Iambs

Online

October 25 2025

Poems, Spells, Curses: A Halloween Poetry Performance

Sleepy Hollow, NY

October 25 2025

Lifting the Veil: A Poetry Witchery Workshop

As Halloween approaches, together we will cast a circle between the worlds to welcome the spirits of our ancestors, and the ancient heartbeats of poetic craft will guide us to channel long-lost voices . . .

Sleepy Hollow, NY

September 25 2025

In the Year 2027

Performance & group ritual. Hosted by the Myth Lab

At Brooklyn Library for Arts & Culture, 10 Lafayette Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

July 28 2025

Glastonbury Goddess Conference

Offering rhythm healings and amulet consultations throughout the conference. To book, please contact me through this site.

Glastonbury, UK

July 12 2025

Poetry Reading

At Blackbird Stage, NYC Poetry Festival, Governors Island

New York, NY

May 19 2025

A Brief Introduction to Poetic Meter

Online

April 12 2025

Craft Discussion

with Randall Mann and Christopher Childers

At Sierra Poetry Festival

Grass Valley, CA

April 12 2025

Workshop: Joining Poetry's Dances

At Sierra Poetry Festival

Grass Valley, CA

April 09 2025

The Goddess Language - Poetry, Color, and Pattern

A magical talk and poetic performance focusing on Goddess Creativity in fashion, and premiering a new poem, "The Good Runes of Color"

At Gudrun Sjoden (Women's Clothing Store), 50A Greene Street, New York

New York, NY

March 27 - 30 2025

Poetry Witchery Performance at Women & Mythology Conference (ASWM)

Making Magic and Matriarchy

At Westward Look Wyndham

Tucson, Arizona

March 08 2025

Poetry Performance

Free, Fearless, Fantastical exhibit

At Pen + Brush Gallery, 29 East 22nd Street, New York

New York, NY

February 23 2025

Workshop: Falling in Love With Poetic Meter

Online

December 02 2024

Poetry Reading

At Almost Corner Bookstore, Trastevere

Rome, Italy

November 24 2024

Embodying Meters Workshop Immersion (Day 2 of Metrical Diversity, Metrical Witchcraft)

Brooklyn, NY

November 17 2024

Meters' Magic Immersion (Day 1 of Metrical Diversity, Metrical Witchcraft)

Brooklyn, NY

October 10 2024

One Day Mini-Retreat: Poetry Witchery

Immersive Poetry WItchery mini-retreat in North Beach. Annie will facilitate a ritual, discussion, and workshop of each participant's poems in light of the principles of Poetry Witchery.  Poets will receive emailed guidelines re your poetry portfolio in advance of the retreat. Workshop followed by reception and group reading. Limited to 5 poets. 

San Francisco, CA

September 20 - 22 2024

Equinox Poetry Harvest Retreat

Poetry and Ritual Weekend with Annie Finch and Joshua Davis

At The Poetry Barn

West Hurley, New York

June 16 2024

Rattlecast Interview with Tim Green

With prompts and open mic

Online

May 25 2024

Brooklyn Poetry Festival

Panel and Reading

New York, New York

May 10 - 12 2024

Poetry of the Goddesses of Love

Portuguese Goddess Conference

Sintra, Portugal

May 01 2024

Witches Flower, Witches Fire

Collaborative Performance with Annie Finch, Haleh LIza Gafori, Kassandra Khalil, and Ingrid Norton

Brooklyn, NY

April 27 2024

Structural Repetition Poetry Workshop

Writers and Books Festival

Online

April 26 2024

Choice Words and the Literature of Abortion

Interviewed by Katie Garner

At Seminary Bookstore

Chicago, IL

April 25 2024

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Chicago Abortion Fund Fundraiser with Annie Finch, Tara Betts, Debra Bruce, Cin Salach

At Haymarket House

Chicago, Ilinois

April 22 - 26 2024

Writer in Residence

At Lake Forest College

Chicago, IL

April 18 2024

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion Panel Discussion

Brooklyn, New York

November 19 2023

"How to Scan a Poem"

Online Workshop

November 04 2023

Metre, Magic, Mother: An Introduction to Goddess Poetry around the World

Performance and Lecture

At Godrej Dance Academy Theatre, National Center for the Performing Arts

Mumbai, India

October 07 2023

Poetry Reading and Discussion in Bangalore

At Bangalore International Centre

Bangalore, India

September 26 2023

Writing and Performing Poetic Meters

Uttarakhand, India

September 21 2023

"Meter and Magic in Contemporary Poetry"

A Reading, Lecture, and Discussion with American Feminist Poet Annie Finch

At Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia University

New Delhi, India

August 29 2023

Poet in Residence

At Space Gallery

Portland, Maine

June 23 2023

Poetry Reading

At Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave

Brooklyn, NY

May 20 - 21 2023

Poetry Reading

Workshop: Rooted Revision

Upstate NY

May 04 - 07 2023

Writing the Rhythms of Water

Workshop: Rooted Revision

Syracuse, New York

March 29 2023

Poetry Reading

At Casa del Encanto, Barra Da Potosi

Mexico

March 27 2023

Choice Words: The Literature of Abortion

At Politics & Prose Bookstore

Online

March 11 2023

AWP Writing Conference Panel

Seattle, Washington

February 18 2023

Giving and Receiving the Gifts of Love

Online

February 13 2023

Love Sonnets: A Celebration

Online

February 12 2023

"Center of Gravity" Reading

Online

December 01 2022

Meter and Magic Workshop Begins

Class

Online

October 31 2022

Samhain Interview

Magick and Alchemy Podcast by Tamed Wild with Kristen Lisenby and Kate Belew

online

October 03 2022

Poetry Residency

At West Chester University

West Chester, Pennsylvania

April 24 - 27 2022

Keynote Lecture: Redefining Poetry

At Poetry by the Sea Conference

Madison, Connecticut

January 29 2022

Panelist: The Misuse and Abuse of the Gifts of Language

Annie Finch with Miigam'agan, Susan Petrilli, Vandana Shiva, Genevieve Vaughan, Moderated by Letecia Layson

At Maternal Gift Economy Movement Salons

online