Annie Finch

Annie Finch is a poet and a prosodist, critic, editor, translator, and performer of poetry. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Eve, finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; Calendars, finalist for the National Poetry Series; Spells: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Maine Women Writers Award, and The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, both from Wesleyan University Press; and the verse drama Among the Goddesses, winner of the Sarasvati Award. Her poetry has been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The NortonAnthology of World Literature, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, translated into nine languages, and installed in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Annie’s books about poetry include A Poet’s Craft, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and nine anthologies on poetry including Villanelles, A Formal Feeling Comes, and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. She is also the editor of the landmark collection Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Annie’s music and theater collaborations and ritual performances have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Deepak Chopra Homespace, and American Opera Projects, and her writing on spirituality appears in The Huffington Post, Psyche, The New York Times, and her own “Poetess Priestess” substack. She holds a BA from Yale, MA from the University of Houston, and Ph.D from Stanford University and has lectured at universities including Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, Delhi, and Oxford. In 2012 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the Art and Craft of Versification. Based in New York City, she travels to teach and perform.