Little Book of Goddess Prayers
by Annie Finch
ABOUT THE BOOK
Little Book of Goddess Prayers
Renowned poet Annie Finch’s poems to Goddesses embody the joy and immanence of the Divine Feminine with exquisite poetic craft and will inspire your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Praise for Little Book of Goddess Poems
“In words that soar but are never obscure, Annie Finch tells of Goddesses who have returned offering threads of meaning with which to weave our lives anew. Sing to us, dear Muse.”
— Carol P. Christ, author of Rebirth of the Goddess
“Consider a drum within the earth. It sounds thunder that spreads throughout all life. The boom feeds the sound eaters. It is our staple. Starts our hearts, the small drum cousins. Annie Finch reminds us that poetry is born of this rhythmical architecture. From her poetry is a pure tone that calls us home to the first impulse of poetry. Finch’s poetry is songs to shift knowing in this place of things and ideas. We link to mystery. We lift off.”
— Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States
“I am convinced that Annie Finch is a Druid priest; her work summons in rhythm and rhyme something ancient in our lungs, something female and close to the earth we are born from.”
— Sean Thomas Dougherty
“An oracle, an ecstatic maenad: that is the kind of traditional poet Annie Finch is. Finch uses poetic structures to distract monkey mind so that wild mind sings through. . . she finds rhyme and meter rooted in the oral tradition with its pagan proletarian values. She takes back the master’s tools by remembering that they were, from the first, tools of the common folk.”
— Patricia Monaghan, author of The Goddess Path
“I can state, with absolutely no doubt whatsoever, that Annie Finch taught me to discover the music in my own body. I have never encountered again someone so unflinchingly passionate about the art of poetry and so dedicated to its potential.”
— Patricia Smith, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
“Finch is a major poet, one of very few who understand how lyric lives in part because it can speak for something larger than the ego.”
— Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Book Details
Publisher
Women’s Spirituality Studies Press
Publication Date
October 30, 2026
Pages
65
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Goddess Studies, Poetry, Women’s Spirituality
About the Author
Annie Finch
Award Winning Poet
Annie Finch is an award-winning poet who weaves language, magic, and matriarchy through her roles as writer, cultural commentator, and performance artist.
About the Author
Annie Finch
Annie Finch is a poet and a prosodist, critic, editor, translator, and performer of poetry. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Eve, finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; Calendars, finalist for the National Poetry Series; Spells: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Maine Women Writers Award, and The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, both from Wesleyan University Press; and the verse drama Among the Goddesses, winner of the Sarasvati Award.
Her poetry has been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, translated into nine languages, and installed in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Annie’s books about poetry include A Poet’s Craft, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and nine anthologies on poetry including Villanelles, A Formal Feeling Comes, and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. She is also the editor of the landmark collection Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020).
Annie’s music and theater collaborations and ritual performances have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Deepak Chopra Homespace, and American Opera Projects, and her writing on spirituality appears in The Huffington Post, Psyche, The New York Times, and her own “Poetess Priestess” substack. She holds a BA from Yale, MA from the University of Houston, and Ph.D. from Stanford University and has lectured at universities including Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, Delhi, and Oxford.
In 2012 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the Art and Craft of Versification. Based in New York City, she travels to teach and perform.