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As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Poet Annie Finch will talk about her poetry fieldwork with the Glacier Park wolves and read from her recent work Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. at the Poetry Corner of the Mansfield Library (NW corner of the fifth floor), University of Montana.  

 

More about Annie Finch . . .

 

Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism.  Her books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: A Narrative Libretto. Her music, art, and theater collaborations include two operas. Her poems appear in anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review, and her books on poetics include A Formal Feeling Comes, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and the forthcoming A Poet’s Craft. Her book of poetry Calendars was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in 2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and Spain.  Finch earned a BA from Yale University, a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and a PhD in English from Stanford University.  She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast, the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine.