Archive - Confessions of Poetry Witch: Matriarchy, Meters, & Magic

Dancing With YOUR Villanelles!

Share your villanelles created during my craft class at Poets House

Jun 23 • Annie Finch

How the Villanelle Form Rooted My Trauma

A Form Rooted in Ancient Communal Dance Works Its Magic on My Poem "A Root"

Jun 20 • Annie Finch

May 2026

ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, ROY FINCH

Under the ocean that stretches out wordlessly . . .

May 13

April 2026

How to Start a Goddess Raising Circle

or Coven or Witchcircle or Moonlodge or Hagiarchy . .Call it anything . . .Just start it!!!..

Apr 25 • Annie Finch

What I Learned About Scansion from Building Poetcraft with Annie Finch

A guest post by Sanya Khurana

Apr 14 • Annie Finch

March 2026

How That Best Actress Oscar Result Exposes Feminism, You Guys!

What Jessie Buckley and Rose Byrne's Fates Pinpoint About the State of Matriarchy Today

Mar 17 • Annie Finch

February 2026

Mistressing the Impossible Art of Translating Poetry

How I Fed the Ghost of Louise Labe

Feb 23 • Annie Finch

December 2025

In the Year 2027

Singing the New Future into Being

Dec 13, 2025

November 2025

Epstein and My Inner Nubile Child

An Explanation for My Younger Women Friends

Nov 20, 2025 • Annie Finch

September 2025

How Patriarchy Happened—And What it Was Like Before

Review of MATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES OF THE PAST AND THE RISE OF PATRIARCHY by Heide Goettner-Abendroth

Sep 15, 2025 • Annie Finch

August 2025

Notes & Pics from the World's Most Legendary Goddess Conference

The Divine Feminine is alive and well in Glastonbury!

Aug 30, 2025

On Mom Angst and WomenCircles

An Open Letter to Celeste Davis of 'Matriarchal Blessings'

Aug 17, 2025 • Annie Finch