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A Blessing on the Poets
Patient earth-diggers, impatient fire-makers,
Hungry word-takers and roving sound-lovers,
Sharers and savers, musers and achers,
You who are open to hide or uncover,
Time-keepers and –haters, wake-sleepers, sleep-wakers:
May language’s language, the silence that lies
Under each word, move you over and over,
Turning you, wondering, back to surprise.
—Annie Finch, from SPELLS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Wesleyan U. Press, 2013)
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Annie Finch
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Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, editor, and teacher. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Earth Days (due in 2023 from Nirala) and The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells (Wesleyan University Press).
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Are you really a witch?
Yes. I was born on Halloween and have always felt connected spiritually to the earth. I love to practice earth magic, alone or in a coven, using plants, stones, and other magical objects in addition to my poetic tools of words, movement, and ritual.
What is a poetry witch?
A poetry witch uses the rhythms of language as a magical tool. I shape words into spells through meter and form and perform them in
a ritual context for transformation and healing.
What are the best things I can do to learn to write poetry?
1. Learn all you can about poetic meter, the central skill of poetry. Women and gender-nonconforming people can join my Meter Magic Spiral where i teach at poetrywitch.org. And I share resources for people of all genders in my books, youtube, and substack.
2 Read poems from all times and places, aloud three times. This will help you know if they are good poems. If they are good poems, memorize them.