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Annie Finch is an award-winning poet who weaves language, magic, and matriarchy through her roles as writer, cultural commentator, and performance artist. She is the author of Spells: New and Selected Poems and six other volumes of poetry, as well as verse plays, poetry translation, and opera libretto. Her prose works include A Poet’s Craft and a dozen other influential books on poetry, along with writings on feminism and spirituality including the groundbreaking Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. Annie’s poetry appears onstage at Carnegie Hall and in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, New York Times, and Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She has lectured and performed widely across the United States and India, as well as in Europe and Africa. Passionately devoted to poetic pattern and rhythm as a path to connection with self, nature, and spirit, Annie embraces the poet’s ancient roles as creator, teacher, spellcaster, healer, and priestess.She is based in New York City and travels to celebrate the seasons of nature and life through reading, speaking, and ritual poetry theater