RPO -- Selected Poetry of Annie Finch (1956-)

Selected Poetry of Annie Finch (1956-)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Notes on Life and Works

Barron, Jonathan. "Annie Finch." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 282: New Formalist Poets. Ed. Jonathan N. Barron and Bruce Meyer. Gale Group, 2003: 91-101.
Finch, Annie. Calendars. Dorset, Vt.: Tupelo Press, 2003.
--. Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work. Fort Lee, N.J.: CavanKerry Press, 2001.
--. Catching the Mermother. West Chester, Pa.: Aralia Press, 1996.
--. The Encyclopedia of Scotland. Amherst, Mass.: Caribou Press, 1982. [performance poem]
--. Eve. Brownsville, Ore.: Story Line Press, 1997.
--. The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
--. Marie Moving: An Epic Poem. Brownsville, Ore.: Story Line Press, 2002.
--. "Metrical Diversity: A Defense of Non-Iambic Meters." In David Baker, ed. Meter in English: A Critical Engagement. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996: 59-74.
--. "A Rock in the River: Maxine Kumin's Rhythmic Countercurrents" and "Zaraf's Star." In Emily Grosholz, ed. Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997: 22-31, 178-179.
--. Season Poems. Los Angeles: Calliope Press, 2002.
--, ed. After New Formalism. Brownsville, Ore.: Story Line Press, 1999.
--, Johanna Keller, and Candace McClelland, eds. A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women. Brownsville, Ore.: Story Line Press, 1994.
-- and Kathrine Varnes, eds. An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
--, ed. Sequoia. 1987-91.
--, ed. WOM-PO. 1997-. A national listserve devoted to the discussion of women's poetry.

Biographical information

Given name: Annie
Family name: Finch
Birth date: 31 October 1956
Nationality: American
Family relations
husband: Glen Brand
son: Julian Hughan
daughter: Althea Margaret Crane
Education
Simon's Rock Early College: 1973 to 1974
Yale University (B.A.): 1974 to 1979
University of Houston (M.F.A.) to 1986
Stanford University (Ph.D.) to 1991
Occupation: Professor
First RPO edition: 2004