Annie Finch

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Full Name	Annie Finch
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1956(1956-10-31)
Age	68
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Annie Finch Biography

Annie Finch is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 31, 1956 in New York, United States. Writer who wrote The Ghost of Meter, Among the Goddesses, and Eve as well as other works. She was named the 2009 recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Award.

Her work was heavily influenced through the poetic work that was written by Ann Sexton.

Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956) is an American feminist poet as well as an editor, critic, nonfiction writer, translator, verse playwright, and performer. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, meter, and poetic form. 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. Her edited anthologies include Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, the first major literary anthology about abortion.

Poet and critic Ron Silliman has situated Finch in the context of experimental poetry, writing, “Annie Finch can’t be a new formalist, precisely because she’s passionate both about the new and about form. She is also one of the great risk-takers in contemporary poetry, right up there with Lee Ann Brown & Bernadette Mayer in her willingness to completely shatter our expectations as readers.” The experimental aspect of Finch’s work became more evident with the publication of Spells, which includes 35 of the poems composed in the 1980s that she refers to as the “lost poems.” In the preface to Spells, she describes these as “metrical and experimental poems [that]. . . did not find their audience until the avant-garde’s rediscovery of formal poetic strategies just a few years ago.”

She was married to Glen Brand, with whom she had two children.

Annie Finch Net Worth

Annie Finch is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Annie Finch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at Yale University and Stanford University.

She worked together with the her composer Deborah Drattell on an opera called Marina.

Annie Finch was born in New Rochelle, New York, on October 31, 1956. She was one of five children of activist, artistic, and intellectual parents. In the essay “Desks,” she describes how the influence of her mother, poet and artist Margaret Rockwell Finch and great-aunt, poet, pacifist, and socialist writer Jessie Wallace Hughan, as well as the ideas of her father, philosophy scholar and pacifist Henry L. Finch, influence her work. Finch was educated in public schools, then at Oakwood Friends School and Simon’s Rock Early College. After graduating from Yale University in 1979, she traveled in Africa with painter Alix Bacon and lived in New York’s East Village, where she self-published and performed the rhythmical experimental longpoemThe Encyclopedia of Scotland. She earned an MA in creative writing at the University of Houston in 1985 with poet and playwright Ntozake Shange as her thesis advisor in verse drama, and a Ph.D from Stanford University in 1990.

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Finch’s first poetry collection, Eve (Story Line Press, 1997), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003), finalist for the National Poetry Series and shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year award, is structured around a series of poems written for performance to celebrate the Wheel of the Year. Her third book, Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2010), which received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry, is a hybrid work combining narrative and dramatic structure to tell a mythic story about abortion. The Encyclopedia of Scotland was published in 2010 by Salt Publishing in the U.K.; in the same year, Carnegie Mellon University Press reissued Eve in the Contemporary Classics Poetry Series. Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), collects poems from each of Finch’s previous books along with previously unpublished poems.

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Annie Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Annie Finch celebrates birthday on October 31 of every year.

Finch started a blog called American Witch in 2010 and has published several articles about earth-centered spirituality in The Huffington Post.