Annie Finch Archive

"This brave, loving weaving
is singing our lives back,
and women are ready . . . "

 —  "Amulet for Brave Women"

"In the center of the new flowers,
a darker wing of fire
points you like a flower. "

 —  "Summer Solstice Chant"

Annie Finch is an award-winning poet, translator, cultural critic, and performance artist. Known for her incantatory poems and mesmerizing performances, Finch is the author of seven volumes of poetry. She has written and edited thirteen books on poetic craft, most recently How to Scan a Poem.  Her work has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of World Literature and been translated into nine languages. Awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the Art and Craft of Versification, she has performed her poetry across the U.S. and in India, Mexico, Africa, and throughout Europe. She lives in New York City.

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