Annie has accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. The first residency will be held in July. More information about the St. Francis College MFA Program.
In the new Best American Poetry blog.Susan Elliott Brown talks about Annie’s use of poetry in advertising during her two-year experience founding the retail company American Witch
Annie’s poem “Moon for Our Daughters” was sent out by the Academy of American Poets to their Poem-a-Day subscribers on the day after Election Day. The poem was featured on BrainPickings later that day with the comment, “Take this breath of sanity and hope.” The poem may be found on the Academy’s website with a recording of Annie reading the poem.
MacTaggart Jewelry features Annie modelling a pair of earrings and a lanyard necklace designed by poet-jeweler Paige MacTaggart. Several poems from Calendars, including “Earth Goddess and Sky God,” accompany the jewelry. More about Calendars
Annie’s memories of studying with playwright and poet Ntozake Shange are collected in the anthology Thank You, Teacher: Grateful Students Tell the Stories of the Teachers Who Changed Their Lives, edited by Holly Holbert. Others who contributed their memories of teachers to the book include Maya Angelou, George Saunders, and Jerry Spinelli.
Larissa Shmailo’s article “Bob Holman and Metre,” in The Journal of Poetics Research, applies Annie’s theory of “the metrical code” to Holman’s free verse. The metrical code was first developed in Annie’s 1993 book The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse,
Annie talks about the experience of founding WOM-PO, the Discussion of Women’s Poetry listserv she started in 1997 which now has over 12,000 members worldwide, in an interview for Frances Donovan’s Garden of Words, The interview is accompanied by a review of Annie’s latest book of poetry, Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan U.P.) and a poem from the book, “Abortion Spell.” 
Two poems by Annie appear in the new Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Rita Dove, editor of the anthology, chose “Another Reluctance” and “Insect”from Eve (1997) for inclusion.
Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, edited by Annie with Alexandra Oliver, is now out in the Everymans Library series from Random House, coedited with Alexandra Oliver. A twenty-year project of Annie’s, “this comprehensive and joyous celebration of metered verse brings together some of the best rhythmic lines in literature.” More about Measure for Measure
A new anthology published by the Academy of American Poets gathers poems sent out in its Poem A Day email letter. Annie’s poem, “Love in the Morning,” a tribute to male sexuality, appears in the February section. The 365 poems include contemporary poems along with classic poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and others.
Composer Dale Trumbore’s setting of Annie’s poem “Winter Solstice Chant” won the Busan Choral Composition Competition and will premiere from the Ansan City Choir in Busan, South Korea.
Annie’s conversations on earth-centered spirituality with Scott Sehon, professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College, are now available on the Literary Ethnography Channel on Youtube.
Annie’s Spells: New and Selected Poems is now available from Wesleyan University Press. The book gathers poems from all of Annie’s previous books as well as new and previously unpublished poems. For launch events and readings, please see the Events page.
“Casting Spells,” a full-length interview with Annie about poetry, earth-centered spirituality, and her new book, Spells, was featured in American Poetry Review. The interview, conducted by writer Alexandria Giardino, used the groundbreaking technique of incorporating questions from numerous other poets and editors including Kazim Ali, Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, Maxine Kumin, Ethelbert Miller, Alicia Ostriker, Patricia Smith, and many more. The interview may be ordered from American Poetry Review.
Dale Trumbore’s choral setting of Annie’s poem “A Valentine for Hands” from Calendars won the Yale Glee Club’s Emerging Composer Award. The piece premiered at Woolsey Hall in New Haven, conducted by Jeffrey Douma.
Feminist theorist Charlene Spretnak devoted a special episode of her radio program “All Together Now” to a live performance of Ani’s epic libretto AMONG THE GODDESSES. The production was performed by four actors with music recorded at the Temple of Isis in Egypt by composer Lorah Yaccorino. Following the performance, Annie was interviewed by director Cait Johnson about the choreopoem, her career, and abortion, which is a central theme of the book. The show is available for streaming and for download at the Progressive Radio Network.
Andrew Sullivan’s blog, “The Dish,” featured a poem from Annie’s book Calendars, “A Wish for Eyes.” The poem describes the experience of climbing a misty hill in San Francisco.
Annie’s poem ”Coy Mistress,” from Eve, is included in the new literature textbook Literature & Composition (Bedford/St Martin’s). Accompanying the poem is a detailed interview with Annie about the role of a feminist poet and how and why the poem, composed in college about a boyfriend, was written.
Garrison Keillor has chosen Villanelles, edited by Annie and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, as one of 7 books that he recommends for holiday gifts.The Poetry Foundation’s
gathering of Halloween Poems includes Annie’s poem “Samhain.”
Annie’s entry on “formalism” appears in the new edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Annie has been appointed as the first Artist in Residence at the online divinity school Cherry Hill Seminary. During the one-year appointment, she will be posting original poems at the school’s website as well as working with students and faculty on collaborative projects.
Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams has been awarded the Sarasvati Award for the best book of poetry concerning women and mythology by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. The award was conveyed at the ASWM biennial national conference in San Francisco.
Annie is featured in a symposium in THE HUFFINGTON POST on “the state of American Poetry,” with an interview, links, and a new poem.
As part of the ceremonies marking Sylvia Plath’s induction into the Poets Corner of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, Annie presented a talk at the Cathedral on Plath’s use of language entitled “Plath’s Rough Magic.”Annie’s talk is cited in the New Yorker Magazine’s coverage of the event.
Annie toured the Midwest and South, reading and lecturing on the poetry of nature and also touring the poetry installations in several zoos, as part of the Language of Conservation project organized by the New York-based organization Poets House.
“Longfellow,” a poem commissioned from Annie by the Maine Historical Society for Longfellow’s 200th birthday, is reviewed in Lantern Review: “Longfellow is treated as a construction,…present but amorphous . . . he is dismantled, reassembled, reimagined until he is apprehensible.”
Annie is a guest blogger at the Poetry Foundation blog, “Harriet.” Her posts may be found here.
Annie’s first collection of poems, Eve, has been chosen for inclusion in Carnegie Mellon University Press’s “Classic Contemporaries” poetry series. “Classic Contemporaries” has gained widespread praise for reissuing significant out-of-print books by important American poets including Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, James Tate, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
“Wolf Song,”Annie’s multmedia collaborative verse play about the place of the Wolf in the physical and psychic landscape, premiered at Mayo Street Arts in Portland, Maine. Incorporating dance, masks, music, puppets, and verse theater, the play was directed by Assunta Kent with an original score by Cristina Alden-Kinne.
The Poetry Foundation interviewed Annie about her article “The Poetry of Winter” for a new podcast by called “Poetry Gone Cold.” “The Poetry of Winter,” as well as its companion pieces on autumn and spring, may be found at the Poetry Foundation website.
Annie has been named the winner of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award ”for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.” Previous winners of this lifetime achievement award include Marina Tarlinskaja, John Hollander, and Paul Fussell.
Annie’s birthday on October 31 was noted by Garrison Keillor during his daily Public Radio broadcast, “The Writer’s Almanac.” Keillor also noted the birthdays of Martin Luther and John Keats.