Annie Finch
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Poet, Writer, Speaker |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | An award-winning poet, author, translator, playwright, critic, editor, teaching artist, and performer of poetry and ritual, Finch is the author of several poetry collections known for their earth-spiritual themes, musicality, and craft, including Calendars, Eve, Spells, and the feminist epic Among the Goddesses, as well as numerous books on the art of poetry that emphasize women’s voices and the spiritual aspects of the art. A graduate of Yale with a Ph.D. from Stanford, Finch has received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contributions to the art and craft of Versification. Her poetry has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and onstage at Carnegie Hall. She offers talks, rituals, and workshops on poetry, poetics, ritual writing, and female-centered spirituality at conferences and gatherings. |
| Interests | Poetry, meter, form, rhythm, feminism, psychology, Goddesses, earth spirituality, ritual and ceremony, herbs, matriarchal culture, witchcraft, paganism, bodywork and energy work, ecosexuality, mythology, artistic collaboration, multimedia poetic performance, ritual theater, ecotheater, |
| Favorite books | The Untouched Key by Alice Miller, Selected Poems by WB Yeats, Getting Our Bodies Back by Christine Caldwell, Book of Goddesses and Heroines by Patricia Monaghan, When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone, The Bridge by Hart Crane, The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde, Poems by Langston Hughes, Poems by Edna St Vincent Millay, Poems by Odysseus Elytis, Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva |