Annie Finch

Chillin’ More With the Villies

Guess who wrote the following villanelle:

06.05.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (91)

Annie Finch

Where Are You, General Audience?

I woke up the morning after the college reunion reading not only slightly hungover on cucumber vodka, but also satisfied and addicted. These few hundred folks might well be the largest audience I’ve ever read to that didn’t consist primarily of poets, writers, and poetry and writing teachers. I had had the rare experience of reading for a general audience—and I admit I wanted more.

06.02.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (45)

Annie Finch

Bright College Fears

I’m posting this from a dorm room in Timothy Dwight College at Yale, where I am beng housed before giving a poetry reading tomorrow as part of the 30th reunion of the class

05.30.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (3)

Annie Finch

Discovering Dunbar

A life centered on poetry has allowed me many emotions that I never feel except in relation to poetry. There’s the thrill of gratitude when a poem is conceived, the anxiety of waiting for a word, the warm breakthrough of the right one at last, the dryness and frustration of the blind alley. There’s the glorious triumph of speaking the remembered words of a beloved poem to another person who really wants to hear them. There’s the savoring greed before opening the covers

05.27.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (16)

Annie Finch

S.O.S. for Salt

News flash: an important trans-Atlantic poetry publisher put out an S.O.S. this week.  Here’s yesterday’s update on the  Salt Publishing situation from the U.K. bookseller Catherine Neilan:

05.26.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (12)

Annie Finch

Facebook & the New Poetry Community

I should be packing right now. I’m just about to get on an early plane to NYC with my daughter who, thanks to a great Jetblue deal, I am bringing to the Museum of Natural History and then the Dusie kollektiv reading and performance tonight at ACA Gallery. So, yes, I should be packing. But someone sent me a link to a Facebook events page for the reading—

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05.19.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (13)

Annie Finch

Eileen and Me (1982)

Annie Finch and Alix Baer 1980 ( photo: J. Miller)

05.18.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (6)