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Karima Bennoune @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Before the 5th anniversary of the #Taliban takeover of #Afghanistan & of #Afghan women's heroic resistance I'm honored to share a new International Declaration on #GenderApartheid produced by Afghan-int'l cooperation & signed by 55 global experts genderapartheiddeclaration.org 1/7 Please share

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Gender Apartheid Declaration

In August 2026, to mark the fifth anniversary of repressive Taliban rule and Afghan women’s resistance to it, a distinguished group of international human rights and legal experts - from Afghanistan, ...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 24/07/2026

How to Talk to a "War Goddess" (If there really is such a thing) open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

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How to Talk to a "War Goddess"

(is there REALLY such a thing as a war Goddess?)

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 23/07/2026

At the beautiful Poetry Camp this summer, for Poetry Society of New York, I'll be teaching the 5 Directions of poetry magic... poetrysocietyny.org/poetry-camp

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 17/06/2026

@anniefinch.bsky.social I'm offering a one-day craft class on one of the most magical poetry shapes, the villanelle! With roots in ancient matriarchal circle dances, this gorgeous form can transform rage into peace and trauma into power. . . June 23, 6:3-8:30 pm. poetshouse.org/event/craft-...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 24/04/2026

excited to offer this class!

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 17/04/2026

Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England, Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England, Lilac in me because I am New England. --Amy Lowell

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This intensive two-session, online workshop w/ @anniefinch.com will open the gates of five core poetic meters with clear, subtle techniques to make them your own. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 03/03/2026

“Listen to the Music in your soul. Now, while listening, do you not feel an inner self awakening deep within you—that it is by its strength that your head is lifted, that your arms are raised, that you are walking slowly toward the light?” —Isadora Duncan

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 11/02/2026

The Goddesses Hunt continues, now in Crete. Where water earth air light and spirit meet, I was gifted with the final form of a Divine Feminine fingersign. Have met amazing Goddess women here. Much for us to share, much to build, much to weave across this transforming, reawakening world…

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 13/01/2026

The poet feels, with his poetry, the same certainty yet excitement as a jockey feels with a racehorse. He has sensitive hands that feel the horse's mouth, that understand all the variations of speed…Alexander Pope #poetry #apoetsear #meterismagic #poeticmeter

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 05/01/2026

“Love consists in desiring what is good and wisdom consists in thinking what is true. “ — Emmanuel Swedenborg

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 05/12/2025

The secret to success? Get behind your gifts— allow them to lead you.To allow your gifts to lead you, you need to inhabit them. To inhabit them, you need to understand them. That starts with claiming their tools! To claim the tools, learn them. To learn them, find them. Step 1: FIND your tools!!!!!

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 20/11/2025

For we who were raised in sexually abusive, patriarchal—and often white!—environments during those years, take my word for it—what is happening about #Epstein right now is not just about the victims. #maxwell #nubile #sexualabuse #feminism #adolescence anniefinch.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

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Epstein and My Inner Nubile Child

An Explanation for My Younger Women Friends

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 05/11/2025

I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 08/10/2025

Poets....Are you ready to reclaim your lost birthright, the languages of rhythm & enchantment? My 9-month cycle of legendary meter-and-magic classes starts next week. For a full immersion, register for Póěmágǐc Yéar by October 15. Hope to see you there! anniefinch.com/poemagic-year/

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 01/10/2025

waking up to pictures of men in suits yelling at each other and destroying our government, I was filled with rage at a lifetime of “news” headlines about the slaughter, misery, cruelty caused by males fighting with each other. Duh: groups of males don’t govern for good. Next: storm goddesses

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 01/10/2025

well, the patriarchy is finally shredding the democracy they copied from the matriarchal Haudenosaunee people— leaving out the most important part which was the circle of elder women overseeing everything.

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 15/09/2025

Perloff, Pleasure, and Postmodernism open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 11/09/2025

"The Naming" : A Poem for 9/11 poems.anniefinch.com/occasions/th...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 11/09/2025

Haley Robson nails the perfect description of #patriarchy: ”,you’ve got the bad guys and the good guys, and the bad guys are silencing the good guys which makes it impossible for the good men to stand up in situations like these to defend the women." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPbf...

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 09/09/2025

Starting at 4:40 mark, this is the most eloquent and concise and moving summary of the importance of the Epstein case I have heard. Thank you @repstansbury.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liF...

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‘Massive global cover-up’: Oversight Cmte. member speaks out on Epstein fallout

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 06/09/2025

A poet asked me, for the issue of @Pshares.bsky.social i’m editing, whether I’m looking for poems on a certain theme. I answered, “I’m looking for poems that weave structure & meaning so they can’t be separated— Structure fully realized & expressed like the shape of a flower.”

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 30/08/2025

The Goddesses are alive and rising fast! open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14/07/2025

“Abortion stories that need to be told do not give up,” the poet @anniefinch.com writes in the introduction to the edited collection Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020). lux-magazine.com/article/abor...

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How to Write an Abortion Story

Ending a pregnancy can certainly birth a writer.

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 30/07/2025

Here is an important new interview in the #epstein saga. As a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, I have been watching the coverage like a hawk. @jessmichaelsspeaks.bsky.social is a passionate dedicated & eloquent voice leading the way out of silence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQm...

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Jeffrey Epstein survivor Jess Michaels on her story and the importance and impact of the recent news

YouTube video by Katie Couric

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 30/06/2025

"HAG is one of the magic words for which there is no male form, suggesting its original meaning was close to "diviner, soothsayer," which were always female in northern European paganism, and hægtesse meant "woman of prophetic and oracular powers" Later, the word was used of village wise women."

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 24/06/2025

The power of the #FiveDirections is beyond any way I could ever have imagined being happy before....

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 24/06/2025

@katebelew.bsky.social reports in today's "Weekly Magic" that "the sound of birds singing tells our nervous system that we’re in a safe environment and our able to relax." Anne Waldman says birds are the original poets. To complete the effect, though, poets need to SING, and that means #MeterMagic

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 23/06/2025

oh just stop. just stop.

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 18/06/2025

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ― Howard Zinn

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It sure seems like men are too emotional to run the most powerful country on earth!

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 31/05/2025

i just learned,"Elon was severely bullied, with incidents so violent that he was hospitalized for weeks after being beaten by a group of boys who shoved him down stairs and attacked him" I am grateful to feel compassion after all the hate I've borne him.. Wish everyone shared vulnerabilities more.

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 26/05/2025

I no longer think in terms of "better" and "worse" poems. instead, I think of poems as "finished" or "unfinished."

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 26/05/2025

the world needs more finished poems!

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