NEWS ITEMS:
Annie has been invited to write this year's Phi Beta Kappa poem for Yale University.
Annie was invited to participate in the induction of Sylvia Plath into the Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Annie gave reading of her nature poetry and talks about nature poetry in the Midwest and South as part of the Language of Conservation project organized by Poets House.
Annie's poem "Samhain" is included in a gathering of Halloween poems at the Poetry Foundation.
Annie is featured on the Huffington Post with comments on the state of American Poetry, links, and a new poem.
Annie has two poems at Poets for Living Waters, curated by Amy King in response to the Golf Oil Spill.
Annie is interviewed about her article "The Poetry of Winter" for a new podcast by the Poetry Foundation. "The Poetry of Winter," and its companion piece "The Poetry of Autumn," can be found at the Poetry Foundation website.
Annie is interviewed at length about her poem "Coy Mistress" in the new textbook Literature & Composition (Bedford/St Martin's)
Annie's first book of poetry, Eve, has been chosen for inclusion in Carnegie Mellon University Press's "Classic Contemporaries" poetry series. "Classic Contemporaries" has gained widespread praise for reissuing significant out-of-print books by important American poets including Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, James Tate, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Eve will be published by Carnegie Mellon in January 2010.
Final edits are almost done for A Poet's Craft and A Poet's Ear, Annie's pair of poetry-writing textbooks for University of Michigan Press.
Annie Finch has been named the winner of the tenth annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Previous winners include Paul Fussell, Marina Tarlinskaja, and John Hollander.
Annie Finch's birthday was recently noted by Garrison Keillor during his daily Public Radio broadcast, "The Writer's Almanac." Keillor also noted the birthdays of Martin Luther and John Keats.
Annie's book Among the Goddesses: An Epic Poem Libretto has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press. The book consists of the epic poem "Marie Moving" and its opera libretto adaptation, "Lily Among the Goddesses." Among the Goddesses will be released in Fall 2009.
Annie is now a guest blogger at the Poetry Foundation blog, "Harriet."
Annie's online poetry workshop for the U.K. newspaper The Guardian is up. The topic: sincere and uncynical love poetry.
NEWS FROM THE REVIEWS:
Annie's poem "Longfellow," commissioned by the Maine Historical Society for Longfellow's 200th birthday, is reviewed in Lantern Review: "Longfellow is treated as a construction,...present but amorphous, "a momument" and then "more like a forest," and as a figure of the past he is dismantled, reassembled, reimagined until he is apprehensible."
Annie has been defined, in a review of Calendars, as "a happy poet." : “... Annie Finch has never hesitated to buck a trend. . . she is a happy poet in an age (like most ages) when poets are bleak and blear.”
