ep. 249 - Annie Finch

Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, and performer. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Spells: New and Selected Poems. Her other works include influential essays, books, and anthologies on poetics, feminism, and women’s earth-based spirituality, including the influential book Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. Educated at Yale and Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D, she has lectured at universities including Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford and performed her poetry across the United States and in India, Mexico, Africa, and throughout Europe. She was the interviewee in issue 82 of Rattle. For more on Annie, visit her website: https://anniefinch.com/ Annie also shared some links and notes on meter: How to Scan a Poem video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZh1NNP6WsQ Substack scansion intro https://anniefinch.substack.com/p/useful-background-on-scansion How to Scan a Poem (print) https://bookshop.org/a/1041/9781737307563 Poetry Witch Community/Meter Magic Spiral www.poetrywitch.org As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem set in a place you’ve always dreamed of going to but never have. Allude to all the basic senses. Next Week’s Prompt: Write an extended metaphor poem that features a celestial body. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.