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Perloff, Pleasure, and Postmodernism open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

My Poem Commemorating 9-11 poems.anniefinch.com/occasions/th...

"The Naming" : A Poem for 9/11 poems.anniefinch.com/occasions/th...

"The Naming" : A Poem for 9/11 poems.anniefinch.com/occasions/th...

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...

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...

WOW. What a powerful conversation with @repstansbury.bsky.social Watch till the end. 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.”

The Goddesses are alive and rising fast! open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

“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). lux-magazine.com/article/abor...

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...

portrait of a fembot

"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 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

An important piece by Mariana! stansburyforum.com/2025/06/22/h...

oh just stop. just stop.

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ― Howard Zinn

I love having a clitoris 🫶

It sure seems like men are too emotional to run the most powerful country on earth!

i just learned,"Elon was severely bullied, with incidents so violent that he was hospitalized for weeks after being beaten by a group of boys who shoved him down stairs and attacked him" I am grateful to feel compassion after all the hate I've borne him.. Wish everyone shared vulnerabilities more.

I no longer think in terms of "better" and "worse" poems. instead, I think of poems as "finished" or "unfinished."

the world needs more finished poems!

Have just discovered that this book exists and cannot wait to get a copy and dive in. An incredibly important collection edited by @anniefinch.com. bookshop.org/p/books/choi... #abortion

Deep scansion of meter is like an x-ray into a poem’s depths. Here I use its techniques to understand the dynamics of daughter, mother, and Goddess in a poem by an extraordinary metrical poet. anniefinch.substack.com/p/formflash-...

Happy Ostara Eve! Here's Eostre, later Ostara-- the sun, dawn, spring goddess from whom we get the name Easter (and east, estrus, & estrogen!) This Victorian image may look airy--but the powerful original sun #Goddess sure feels like Fire. Time for some spring poems in passionate #Anapests maybe?

if we truly believe that poetry is as important as we say it is, then how could we not choose to avail ourselves fully of all of its tools, especially in a time as fraught and crucial as this one? Isn't that our job?https://anniefinch.substack.com/publish/post/161509998

Are you a poet or poetry-lover who is meter-curious? You can launch your own unique journey through meter’s magic with Poetcraft’s beautiful gift for National Poetry-Writing Month! open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

Magical Poets! Meter Magic Spiral Journey will start soon. This intensive mistress-class in reading, scanning, & writing meter focuses on deep scansion, metrical diversity, and a nurturing environment where minds open, inner powers shine, limitations dissolve. Full info at classes.anniefinch.com.

Poets!! I'm excited to announce that i am the guest editor for the Spring 2026 issue of @pshares.bsky.social. It is an honor and a joy! If you want to add to the vibrant, healing rhythmical chorus I'm creating, send them along!y I'd love this issue to sing, especially with a diversity of meters.

Self portrait, 1649 by Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier, recently recognized as an outstanding Baroque artist. Her paintings were previously attributed to male artists, including her brother, as happened to other past female artists #womensart

this month in Meter Magic Community, we are channelijg the meter of the Dark Goddess who carries life and death—and look who I find in an amazing home that I visit near the end of my sojourn in Mexico

so what do y'all think??!!!!

Women's Mysteries returning... ! #Matriarchynow #Goddesses www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

@randolphlundine.bsky.social set up a welcome discount link for my first class there! Now's your chance to fall in love with poetic meter!

The patriarchy has had all the time in the world to resolve our issues and failed. It’s time to put women at the forefront. Thus, I’ve decided to highlight the matriarchy of the past and present. By acknowledging our diversity we show that working together is a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Thought for the day: Once you discover metrical diversity, you are exactly as free in meter as you are in free verse!

I typically approach a poem by inviting myself to speak it three times aloud. If a poem can stand up to this, the odds are that it will transform itself through rich depths of nuance by the end of the third reading. The thrice is no coincidence; 'meter' and 'magic' grow from related root words.

I just realized that a huge reason for the loss of poetic meter has been our patriarchal culture’s problem discerning patterns from rules. #poeticmeter #meteredpoetry #matriarchalpoetics #apoetscraft

We are delighted to share that @anniefinch.bsky.social has joined us. Annie’s first poetry workshops are open for registration!

this was a happy day, celebrating publication of #apoetscraft from U Michigan Press with my wonderful meter student #PatriciaSmith. I’m happy this book has helped spread awareness of poetic craft including the joys of #poeticmeter, poetic form, and #metricaldiversity! Viva the heartbeats of poetry!

Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ order creates a federal mandate defining gender as the sex of an embryo at conception. Impacts: As all embryos have female sex characteristics at conception, all Americans are now defined as female under this order. (3/3)

YES! (and find more great Clit news on #ClitSky )

“is possible to compare circumcision rates by country to prevalence of male abuses toward women that include violence, repression, isolation, murder, rape, and forced marriage“ This article helps explain a lot!!! circumcision.org/how-male-cir...

I left Twitter and I want #TLC to join BlueSky so I can continue reminding viewers that the vagina is INSIDE the body. The VULVA is on the outside. If your vagina is showing, you need to get to a doctor ASAP. #SisterWives #90DayFiance (Is there even basic sex ed in USA anymore? 🤯)