Annie Finch

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Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956 in New Rochelle / New York ) is an American poet, translator, librettist, editor and literary critic.

Finch graduated from Yale University , earned a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Houston, and a doctorate from Stanford University . She directs the Stonecast creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine .

In addition to essays and literary theoretical writings, Finch published several volumes of poetry and long poems . Dance and music events inspired by their works have been held at the Spoleto Festival , the Lawrence Conservatory , the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art . She also wrote the librettos for the operas Lily Among the Goddesses and Marina , which were composed by Deborah Drattell . She was u. a. was awarded scholarships from the Black Earth Institute and the Wesleyan Writers Conference and received the 2009 Robert Fitzgerald Award . The book of poetry Calendars was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2010 .

Works

  • Spells: New and Selected Poems
  • Among the Goddesses
  • Louise Labé , Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition
  • The Encyclopedia of Scotland
  • Calendars
  • Eve
  • The Voice Was the Sea
  • Shadow bird
  • Home Birth
  • Season poems
  • Catching the Mermother
  • The Encyclopedia of Scotland
  • The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
  • The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse
  • A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry
  • A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form
  • Villanelles (Ed.)
  • Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form (Ed.)
  • A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (Ed.)
  • Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Ed.)
  • An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Ed.)
  • Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work (Ed.)
  • After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition (Ed.)

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SURNAME Finch, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, editor, and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH New Rochelle