Finch, Annie 1998
A Formal Feeling Comes: A program celebrating multi-formalism
with Debra Bruce, Paulette Roeske, John Frederick Nims, and Cin Salach
is the sound of my loud carrying life a knell
far across your small ocean? Do you share
the secret that the months keep hidden there?
– Annie Finch, “Three Generations of Secrets”
Ours are the only mouths
to taste with this smothering slow
touch, and the only steps
to sink like bellsounds and cave
deep into the marble snow.
– Annie Finch, “Frozen In”
Read this interview with Annie Finch from The Harlequin:
Annie Finch – Interview – The Harlequin
An interview with poet Annie Finch in The Harlequin
When I was thirteen she found me,
spiralled into my blood like a hive.
I stood on a porch where she wound me
for the first time, tight and alive,
– Annie Finch, “Moon From the Porch”
Watch Annie Finch read “A Blessing on the Poets:”
Annie Finch reading A Blessing on the Poets
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