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Click here to purchase Annie's chapbook,“The Voice Was the Sea.” Annie Finch traces her family’s roots in Maine to the 18th century. Born in New York, she has summered in Maine most of her life and lived there year-round for eight years. Finch’s books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Among the Goddesses, and Spells: New and Selected Poems. Her poetry appears in Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Yale Review, The Norton Anthology of World Poetry, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She has also published many influential poetry anthologies and poetry textbooks, most recently A Poet’s Craft. Her music, art, theater, and opera collaborations have shown at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Chicago Art Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Finch's book of poetry Calendars was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award, and she has received the Robert Fitzgerald Award and the Sarasvati Award. She holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Houston, and Stanford University, and currently directs the Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing at the University of Southern Maine.
“The poems of this chapbook are not simply interrelated.
They are one vision, one response to the mystery of fire and rock and water and wind/Sun and earth and ocean and air that bless us with the constancy of the moon-tide’s endless pull, the grey
anchor of rocks and the wind’s fickle symphonies.” Renny Golden’s book of poetry, The Hour of the Furnaces, was nominated for a National Book Award; her new book of poetry, Blood Desert: Witnesses 1820–1880 (Nuevo Mexico in the 1800s), was published in 2011 by the University of New Mexico Press. Poem by Annie Finch:
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