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The Naming: A Chant for 9/11
With Thoughts on How Grief Needs Rhythm
Sep 11
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Annie Finch
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August 2023
Do Line Breaks Affect Meter?
A Meter Mystery
Aug 23
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Annie Finch
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#SPEAKITTHRICE! The Revolutionary Power of Saying Poems Aloud
If you subscribe to Annie’s Spellsletter, where I share magical snippets of my poems designed to move will, mind, body, heart, and spirit, then you know…
Aug 16
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How Gwendolyn Brooks Invented a New Metrical Foot for Abortion
Adventures in Scanning Brooks and Hardy
Aug 12
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Annie Finch
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Diversity, Constraint, and the Resurgence of Poetic Form
Occasionally I share on Poetry Witchery a previously published essay or post. This essay first appeared in American Poetry Review, January 2020 To begin…
Aug 3
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July 2023
A Place for Abstraction: No Ideas But in Metrical Things?
Occasionally, Poetry Witchery shares a relevant piece that has appeared elsewhere . This musing on abstraction is adapted from a passage in A Poet's…
Jul 25
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Annie Finch
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Special Announcement: Scanning Dactyls!
Starts July 24-Link Inside!
Jul 20
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Annie Finch
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Metrical Diversity in the Iambic Fog: How an Editor Healed My Poem After 43 Years
Annie Finch, 1975. Photo by Lou Dohme Just now I signed into the online version of that superb magazine of place-based literature, Ecotone. to make sure…
Jul 16
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June 2023
Poetry Witchery Q&A: The Proper Meter for a Villanelle
Welcome to a new feature of Poetry Witchery: occasional questions from readers, students, colleagues, and yes, followers of this Substack (if you have a…
Jun 20
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Annie Finch
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May 2023
Meter, Gender, Control: Yeats' Iambic Struggle in "When You Are Old and Gray" (conclusion)
(A Scansion Deep Dive)
May 27
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Annie Finch
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April 2023
Abortion as a Sacrament (Celebrating LIBER: A FEMINIST REVIEW)
In Celebration of my Abortion Ritual in the new issue of LIBER Magazine
Apr 25
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Annie Finch
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Midwifing Double Ghost Dactyls
Notes from the Frontlines of HOW TO SCAN A POEM: A POETRY WITCH WORKBOOK
Apr 15
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Annie Finch
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