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Annie Finch
Finch reading at Folger Theatre, Washington, DC, 2019
Finch reading at Folger Theatre, Washington, DC, 2019
BornAnnie Ridley Crane Finch
(1956-10-31) October 31, 1956 (age 67)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
OccupationPoet, writer, editor, critic, playwright, librettist, performance artist
LanguageEnglish
EducationB.A., M.A., Ph.D
Alma materYale University, University of Houston, Stanford University
GenrePoetry, verse drama, essay, memoir, poetics, poetry translation
SubjectFeminism, spirituality, abortion
Literary movementFeminist poetry, New Formalism, Speculative poetry
Notable worksCalendars(2003), Among the Goddesses(2010), Spells: New and Selected Poems(2013), Choice Words: Writers on Abortion(2020)
Notable awardsSarasvati Award, Robert Fitzgerald Award, Yale Younger Poets Finalist, National Poetry Series Finalist, Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Shortlist
Website
AnnieFinch.com

Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956) is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and performer and the editor of the first major anthology of literature about abortion. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, meter, and poetic form and for its themes of feminism, witchcraft, goddesses, and earth-based spirituality. Her books include The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self, A Poet's Craft, Calendars, and Among the Goddesses.

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Villanelle

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in innovative ways; in their anthology of villanelles (Villanelles), Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali devote a section entitled "Variations on the...

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Alliteration

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open their old cases ..." (Another Reluctance by Annie Finch) "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; / Landscape plotted & pieced -- fold, fallow...

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Poetry Foundation

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Stephanie Burt, Wanda Coleman, Kwame Dawes, Linh Dinh, Camille Dungy, Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Rigoberto González, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, Ange...

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New Formalism

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accusations of betraying their gender and the cause of feminism; as Annie Finch wrote in 1994 in the Introduction to A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in...

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Sapphic stanza

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Notable contemporary Sapphic poems include "Sapphics for Patience" by Annie Finch, "Dusk: July" by Marilyn Hacker, "Buzzing Affy" (a translation of "An...

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Marina Tsvetaeva

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means, by which it was transformed into the material of art." Critic Annie Finch describes the engaging, heart-felt nature of the work. "Tsvetaeva is...

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Paradelle

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Wallace "Paravaledellentine" by Annie Finch Poets Online: The Paradelle Collins, Billy (2002). "The Paradelle". In Finch, Annie; Varnes, Kathrine (eds.). An...

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Hendecasyllable

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Robert Frost ("For Once Then Something"). Contemporary American poets Annie Finch ("Lucid Waking") and Patricia Smith ("The Reemergence of the Noose")...

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Crown of sonnets

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collaborative crown of sonnets by contemporary poets Judith Barrington, Annie Finch, Julie Kane, Julia Lisella, D'Arcy Randall, Kathrine Varnes, and Lesley...

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Dactylic hexameter

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Druids of / eld, with / voices / sad and pro/phetic..." Contemporary poet Annie Finch wrote her epic libretto Among the Goddesses in dactylic tetrameter, which...

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Patricia Monaghan

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many scholars and writers including biologist Cristina Eisenberg, poet Annie Finch, theologian Charlene Spretnak, and anthropologist Dawn Work-MaKinne,...

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Marilyn Hacker

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Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-9659037-5-3. Finch, Annie; Hacker, Marilyn (1996). "Marilyn Hacker: An Interview on Form by Annie Finch". The American Poetry Review....

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Molly Peacock

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Verse." A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women. Ed. Annie Finch. Ashland, OR: Story Line P, 1994. "The Poet As Hybrid Memoirist." The...

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June Thunder

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Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes. University of Michigan Press, 2002. MacNeice, Louis...

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Ntozake Shange

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Word Paintings and served as thesis advisor for poet and playwright Annie Finch. She edited The Beacon Best of 1999: creative writing by women and men...

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Expansive Poetry

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Postmodernism (First U.S. ed.). Story Line Press. ISBN 978-1-885266-66-8. Finch, Annie (May 1994). Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women...

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Lydia Sigourney

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Sigourney, particularly among feminist literary scholars. Critics such as Annie Finch, Nina Baym, and Dorothy Z. Baker have studied Sigourney's successful...

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Leyla Josephine

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Hopeless. (Glasgow: Speculative Books, 2018) 'I Think she Was a She', Annie Finch (ed.) Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books...

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