Annie Finch
@anniefinch.com
Author Spells: New and Selected Poems, Eve, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, & 20 other books. Stanford Ph.D. Priestess of Meters. Poetry Witch. Activist. Speaker. Performer.
🌀 Point your flower—like a fire—
#SpeakItThrice! #MagicHappens #GoddessesRising
🌀 Point your flower—like a fire—
#SpeakItThrice! #MagicHappens #GoddessesRising
Swords into ploughshares! reasonstobecheerful.world/nationwide-m...
The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools
A process that heals trauma while taking guns out of circulation is producing beautiful tools that cultivate life rather than destroy it.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Swords into ploughshares! reasonstobecheerful.world/nationwide-m...
For we who were raised in sexually abusive, patriarchal—and often white!—environments during those years, take my word for it—what is happening about #Epstein right now is not just about the victims. #maxwell #nubile #sexualabuse #feminism #adolescence
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Epstein and My Inner Nubile Child
An Explanation for My Younger Women Friends
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November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
For we who were raised in sexually abusive, patriarchal—and often white!—environments during those years, take my word for it—what is happening about #Epstein right now is not just about the victims. #maxwell #nubile #sexualabuse #feminism #adolescence
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I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan
Poets....Are you ready to reclaim your lost birthright, the languages of rhythm & enchantment? My 9-month cycle of legendary meter-and-magic classes starts next week. For a full immersion, register for Póěmágǐc Yéar by October 15. Hope to see you there! anniefinch.com/poemagic-year/
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Poets....Are you ready to reclaim your lost birthright, the languages of rhythm & enchantment? My 9-month cycle of legendary meter-and-magic classes starts next week. For a full immersion, register for Póěmágǐc Yéar by October 15. Hope to see you there! anniefinch.com/poemagic-year/
waking up to pictures of men in suits yelling at each other and destroying our government, I was filled with rage at a lifetime of “news” headlines about the slaughter, misery, cruelty caused by males fighting with each other. Duh: groups of males don’t govern for good. Next: storm goddesses
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October 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
waking up to pictures of men in suits yelling at each other and destroying our government, I was filled with rage at a lifetime of “news” headlines about the slaughter, misery, cruelty caused by males fighting with each other. Duh: groups of males don’t govern for good. Next: storm goddesses
well, the patriarchy is finally shredding the democracy they copied from the matriarchal Haudenosaunee people— leaving out the most important part which was the circle of elder women overseeing everything.
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
well, the patriarchy is finally shredding the democracy they copied from the matriarchal Haudenosaunee people— leaving out the most important part which was the circle of elder women overseeing everything.
Perloff, Pleasure, and Postmodernism
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September 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Perloff, Pleasure, and Postmodernism
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“The Naming: A Chant”: Memorial Poem for 9-11
Inspired by Meredith Bergmann’s sculpture memorializing the victims of 9/11, and written to be read aloud, this poem was first performed by Annie at the sculpture’s installation in the Cathedral of St...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“The Naming: A Chant”: Memorial Poem for 9-11
Inspired by Meredith Bergmann’s sculpture memorializing the victims of 9/11, and written to be read aloud, this poem was first performed by Annie at the sculpture’s installation in the Cathedral of St...
poems.anniefinch.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Haley Robson nails the perfect description of #patriarchy: ”,you’ve got the bad guys and the good guys, and the bad guys are silencing the good guys which makes it impossible for the good men to stand up in situations like these to defend the women."
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September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Haley Robson nails the perfect description of #patriarchy: ”,you’ve got the bad guys and the good guys, and the bad guys are silencing the good guys which makes it impossible for the good men to stand up in situations like these to defend the women."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPbf...
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Starting at 4:40 mark, this is the most eloquent and concise and moving summary of the importance of the Epstein case I have heard. Thank you @repstansbury.bsky.social
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‘Massive global cover-up’: Oversight Cmte. member speaks out on Epstein fallout
YouTube video by MSNBC
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September 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Starting at 4:40 mark, this is the most eloquent and concise and moving summary of the importance of the Epstein case I have heard. Thank you @repstansbury.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...
WOW. What a powerful conversation with @repstansbury.bsky.social Watch till the end.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...
‘Massive global cover-up’: Oversight Cmte. member speaks out on Epstein fallout
YouTube video by MSNBC
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September 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
WOW. What a powerful conversation with @repstansbury.bsky.social Watch till the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...
A poet asked me, for the issue of @Pshares.bsky.social i’m editing, whether I’m looking for poems on a certain theme. I answered, “I’m looking for poems that weave structure & meaning so they can’t be separated— Structure fully realized & expressed like the shape of a flower.”
September 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A poet asked me, for the issue of @Pshares.bsky.social i’m editing, whether I’m looking for poems on a certain theme. I answered, “I’m looking for poems that weave structure & meaning so they can’t be separated— Structure fully realized & expressed like the shape of a flower.”
The Goddesses are alive and rising fast!
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August 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The Goddesses are alive and rising fast!
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Reposted by Annie Finch
“Abortion stories that need to be told do not give up,” the poet @anniefinch.com writes in the introduction to the edited collection Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020).
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How to Write an Abortion Story
Ending a pregnancy can certainly birth a writer.
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July 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Abortion stories that need to be told do not give up,” the poet @anniefinch.com writes in the introduction to the edited collection Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020).
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Here is an important new interview in the #epstein saga. As a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, I have been watching the coverage like a hawk. @jessmichaelsspeaks.bsky.social is a passionate dedicated & eloquent voice leading the way out of silence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQm...
Jeffrey Epstein survivor Jess Michaels on her story and the importance and impact of the recent news
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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July 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Here is an important new interview in the #epstein saga. As a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, I have been watching the coverage like a hawk. @jessmichaelsspeaks.bsky.social is a passionate dedicated & eloquent voice leading the way out of silence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQm...
"HAG is one of the magic words for which there is no male form, suggesting its original meaning was close to "diviner, soothsayer," which were always female in northern European paganism, and hægtesse meant "woman of prophetic and oracular powers" Later, the word was used of village wise women."
June 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"HAG is one of the magic words for which there is no male form, suggesting its original meaning was close to "diviner, soothsayer," which were always female in northern European paganism, and hægtesse meant "woman of prophetic and oracular powers" Later, the word was used of village wise women."
The Mythology of Work : Eight Myths that Keep Your Eyes on the Clock and Your Nose to the Grindstone sk.crimethinc.com/2018/09/03/t... — @crimethinc.com
The Mythology of Work
Most of the things we make and do for money are patently irrelevant to our survival—and to what gives life meaning, besides.
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June 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Mythology of Work : Eight Myths that Keep Your Eyes on the Clock and Your Nose to the Grindstone sk.crimethinc.com/2018/09/03/t... — @crimethinc.com
The power of the #FiveDirections is beyond any way I could ever have imagined being happy before....
June 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The power of the #FiveDirections is beyond any way I could ever have imagined being happy before....
@katebelew.bsky.social reports in today's "Weekly Magic" that "the sound of birds singing tells our nervous system that we’re in a safe environment and our able to relax." Anne Waldman says birds are the original poets. To complete the effect, though, poets need to SING, and that means #MeterMagic
June 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@katebelew.bsky.social reports in today's "Weekly Magic" that "the sound of birds singing tells our nervous system that we’re in a safe environment and our able to relax." Anne Waldman says birds are the original poets. To complete the effect, though, poets need to SING, and that means #MeterMagic
How can reproductive rights help save the planet? | The Stansbury Forum
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June 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM