Gary Fincke's collection, The Infinity Room, won the 2018 Wheelbarrow Press Prize for Established Poets (Michigan State, 2019). His newest collection, The Mussolini Diaries, was just published by Serving House. Winner of the Wheeler Prize for Poetry from Ohio State and the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, he will have an essay, "After the Three-Moon Era," appear in Best American Essays 2020.

Other poems by Gary Fincke in Verse Daily:
October 16, 2008:   "The Possibilities for Wings" "How often have the customs of strangers..."
October 11, 2008:   "The Pause in the Plummet for Prayer" "They'd plunged thousands of feet, crash-certain, and now..."
March 29, 2005:  "Bird Elegy" ""In post-apocalypse stories, when more..."

Books by Gary Fincke:

Other poems on the web by Gary Fincke:
Fifteen poems
"The History of Silk"
"Isolation"
Four poems
"The Mussolini Diaries"
Two poems

About The Infinity Room:

"These beautifully wrought poems don't make me afraid. They don't make me bitter. They cheer me to know that such a voice exists, that such a life exists, that sees with honesty and wisdom. 'What matters, for serenity, / Is believing in your words,' he writes. I myself am a great believer in Fincke's words."
—Fleda Brown