Poet, writer, and performer Annie Finch offers spellbinding readings of poetry infused with magic. Her works include Spells: New and Selected Poems and five other books of poetry; and books and essays on poetry, meter, feminism, and witchcraft. She is an award-winning poet whose writings embody and explore the links connecting poetry, magic, and matricultures (women-centered societies). Dr. Finch earned her Ph.D from Stanford University and has performed and lectured widely at universities including Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford and women's conferences and spiritual venues including Emerging Women and Deepak Chopra's homespace. Her poetry has appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in Poetry, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She travels to teach and perform her work, and she offers an inspirational newsletter and online classes in poetry, scansion, and feminist spirituality through her website, anniefinch.com.

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