#anniespells

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

A chant for a Goddess of poets on Her day..which has just been recognized as a national holiday in Ireland! #speakitthrice #anniespells BRIGID Ring, ring, ring, ring! Hammers fall. Your gold will all be beaten over sudden flaming fire moving from you, the pyre. Sweeten your cauldron, until the sun runs with one flame through the day and the healing water will sing, linger on tongues, burn away. from Spells: New and Selected Poems by Annie Finch (Wesleyan University Press, 2013) #speakitthrice #anniespells https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIumDYPXwe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

It’s quite a feeling for a poet, after a lifetime in the poetry corner, to see my little book right there on the shelf with the other books that regular people read... #PoetryWitchLittleBookofSpells #crossovers #everybodyneedsmagic #poetryofinstagram #poetrywitch #anniespells #anniefinch @busboysandpoets @weslpress https://www.instagram.com/p/B4cW017hZxG/?igshid=1lsje2vzn09iw

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

#anniespells #tarotpoems #feministpoetry #anniefinch #poetrypower #poetrywitch #witchwords #amphibrachic #poeticmeter #inspirationalquotes https://www.instagram.com/p/B5dJFzOBdo1/?igshid=1sv6i7tcssxsi

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

The more I read and learn about the ways of patriarchy the more clear it is that abortion bans are the advance guard of patriarchal fascism...from medieval Ireland (as described in the great book by Mary Condren, The Serpent and the Goddess) to contemporary Muslim and Catholic patriarchal hells. My anthology Choice Words Writers on Abortion shows the same kinds of oppressive patterns in the literature of 6 centuries & 5 continents. Posting this poem in solidarity with our sisters in Texas, and all over the US, and all over the world!

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

This video, The Coven, was filmed at the crossroads time when I was separating from academia. It’s been a magickal road to Witch before and since. Filmed by the talented @eliciasara for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Thank you to my beautiful coven sister @thepeacefulpagan for posting this record of our path #blessedbe. (Watch here vimeo.com/81904238 and link also in bio) #witchesofinstagram #anniespells #healingpath #poetryheals #poetrywitch

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

Will be teaching my magic—Annie’s Spells—as part of this amazing retreat at the @garrisoninstitute for Winter Solstice! link in bio #yule #writingretreat #goddesswriting #anniefinch #anniespells #magicalwriting #rhythmiclanguage #wintersolstice #womenwriters #womenwritersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B6KmOs4hQOr/?igshid=x7av77bgdjzl

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

It's the Witches' new year!—time to dive deep into our core powers. I will be celebrating my own birthday, and with it the lives and spirits of the Dead who have gone before. Today is a good time to share our messages with them, through fire (burning notes in a candle) or water or earth. Wishing you a very blessed and happy Samhain! #Samhain #halloween2019  #Samhain2019 #SamhainBlessings #anniespells #ancestors #poetrywitch #witches @weslpress @WitchWavePod https://www.instagram.com/p/B4SZlCOhGYm/?igshid=n9cz9b7by5cr

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

Happy Solstice, everyone! #anniespells #SummerSolstice #Litha #Pride2017 #wheeloftheyear #sun #magichappens #witch #poetry

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

Seems like the moment for this one. #believewomen #anniespells #quotestoinspire #inspiringquotes #couragequotes #womenempowerment #womenpower #womeninspiringwomen #writingwomen #womenpoetry #womenpoetsofinstagram #spells #castingspells #anniefinch #talisman #amulet #memorize (at Washington, District of Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7F3uBlSaS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4c0vnle9lna1

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

A Happy Solstice poem —here’s the video! #instantpoem #anniespells #wintersolstice #seagulls #wheeloftheyear #gratitude (at The Old Port)

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

Happy Solstice! #instantpoem #anniespells #wintersolstice #seagulls #portlandmaine #gratitude #wheeloftheyear (at The Old Port)

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

Warming to have my Winter Solstice poem woven into this beautiful essay on the season in today’s Sunday Times. #anniespells #poetrymatters #wheeloftheyear #happyyule #witchesofinstagram #poetrywitch

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

The Naming: A Spell for September 11 is installed at @stjohndivinenyc with @meredith.bergmann.sculpture. Link in bio. ..............Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. #anniespells #september11 #inmemoriam #september11poem #september112001 #september11memorial #september11th2001 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl6llfl1nv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xn21j2lphc6y

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

The Naming: My Spell for September 11 is installed at @stjohndivinenyc with @meredith.bergmann.sculpture (The whole poem with the catalog of names is at anniefinch.com under #anniespells.......................................................................................sending blessings to all who remember that day and the memories of the lost..............................................Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. #anniespells #september11 #inmemoriam #september11poem #september112001 #september11memorial #september11th2001 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl5Qrtlu_w/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gfpz5br3mtxo

[anniefinchpoetrywitch]

The Naming: My Spell for September 11 installed at @stjohndivinenyc with @meredith.bergmann.sculpture THE NAMING Lopez, Jurgens, Lozowsky, O'Connor, Lomax (Shoes, and spirals, dust and the falling flowers)
Diaz, Dingle, Galletti, DiPasquale, Katsimatides Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names: DiStefano, Eisenberg, Chung, Green, Dolan, (Women running suddenly in their high heels) Penny, York, Duarte, Elferis, Sliwak, Yamamadala, Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. Wounds widen the remembering earth: Weinstein, Villanueva, West, Sadaque, (Spirals, dust and spiralling dust and hours) Bowman, Burns, Kawauchi, Buchanan, Reilly, Reese, Ognibene, Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Kushitani, Ueltzhoffer, Wong, Ferrugio, Breathed in only in or beyond the naming), Inghilterra, Tzemis, Liangthanasam, Coladonato— Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Sanchez, Talbot, Afflito, Siskopoulos (Every question with a long sob of naming) Tarantino, Zempoaltecatl, Thorpe, Koo, Stergiopoulos, Zion, Zinzi, Song, Shahid, Santiago, Ortiz, Pabon, Ou, O’Neill, Newton-Carter, Miller, Mohammed, Zakhary, Campbell, Deming, DiFranco, Chowdhury, Blackwell, Zucker, McDowell, Goldstein, Basmajian . . . Wounds widen the remembering earth. Closed eyes see beyond the flames. Grief opens hands to feel the wind. Heart beats like ocean and hears the names. #anniespells #september11 #inmemoriam #september112001 #september11memorial #september11poem https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl4XP_Fhem/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eohg47o4jzci