Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, two books of criticism, and a literature anthology, and he has co-edited two critical anthologies. He was featured in the 2007 edition of Scribner's The Best American Poetry. Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York—LaGuardia.
Works
Books of Poetry A Pageant for Every Addiction. Marsh Hawk Press. 2020 Hedge Fund Certainty Meritage Press and I. e. Press. 2019. Selected Poems & Poetic Series. Marsh Hawk Press. 2016. Joyride. Marsh Hawk Press. 2013.
No Appointment Necessary. Moria Poetry. 2006.
Or Current Resident. Marsh Hawk Press. 2025. Zeugma. Marsh Hawk Press. 2025.
Books of Criticism and Edited Books Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. University of Alabama Press. 2014.
Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement. Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.
Further reading
James Roderick Burns. Review of No Appointment Necessary. Book/Mark (Winter 2008): 5–6. Print. Patricia Carlin. “Patricia Carlin Presents a Poem by Thomas Fink.” Best American Poetry Blog. 15 Nov. 2009. Web. Barry Dordick. “After Taxes by Thomas Fink.” Galatea Resurrects 1 (Mar. 2006) Web. Freedman, Lewis. “This Collision of Multiplicity and Singularity: A Review of Thomas Fink’s ‘Yinglish Strophes 1-19.” Jacket 2 (2012). Web. Noah Eli Gordon. Review of After Taxes. Xantippe 3 (2005): 109–114. Print. Judith Halden-Sullivan. “(Im)possible Surprises: On Fink’s Surprise Visit.” Minnesota Review. 43-44 (1995): 276–80. Print. M.D.H. Johnson. “After Taxes.” Book/Mark (Winter 2005): 6–7. Print. Steven Karl. Review of Clarity and Other Poems. Galatea Resurrects 12 (May 2009) Web. Kimmelman, Burt. "Let 'em eat kitsch: A Review of Thomas Fink's 'Joyride.'" Jacket 2 (2014). Web. Louis McKee. “Number Forty-Eight.” American Book Review 26.6 (September/October 2005): 25, 31. Print. Stephen Paul Miller. “Periodizing Ashbery and His Influence.” The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Susan M. Schultz. *Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995: 146–7. Print. Daniel Morris. Review of Gossip. Confrontation. 82/83 (Spring/Summer 2003): 327–9. Print. Susan Smith Nash. “On Thomas Fink’s Peace Conference.” Press 1. 5.3 (Jan.-Apr. 2012). Web. Tim Peterson. Review of No Appointment Necessary. Galatea Resurrects 6 (May 2007) Web. Shivaji Sengupta. “Absence, Presence, and Meaning: Thomas Fink’s After Taxes.” Jacket 26 (Oct. 2004) Web. Carole Stone. “Review of Thomas Fink’s After Taxes.” Moria Poetry Journal. 7.3 & 4(Winter/Spring 2005) Web.
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