Earth Days: Poems, Chants, & Spells in Five Directions

Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, and speaker known for her incantatory poetry, composed to be read aloud. She is the author of six books of poetry including Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), Eve (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010), and CALENDARS (Tupelo Press, 2003) (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2010) (awarded the Sarasvati Award). She has also published numerous books about poetry including A Poet's Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2012), The Ghost of Meter (University of Michigan Press, 2000), The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and nine anthologies on poetics including A Formal Feeling Comes (Wordtech Communications, 2007), Villanelles (Everyman's Library, 2012), An Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and Norton Anthology of World Literature and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. In 2012 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the Art and Craft of Versification. Finch's verse plays and Poetry Witch Theater rituals have been produced at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Deepak Chopra Homespace, and American Opera Projects. Educated at Yale University and Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D, she has performed her poems cross the U.S. and in India, Mexico, Africa, and throughout Europe.