The secret to success? Get behind your gifts— allow them to lead you.To allow your gifts to lead you, you need to inhabit them. To inhabit them, you need to understand them. That starts with claiming their tools! To claim the tools, learn them. To learn them, find them. Step 1: FIND your tools!!!!!

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 anniefinch.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

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/

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.

wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6C...

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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

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!