Gary Fincke's fourteenth collection of poetry is The Mussolini Diaries. Earlier collections are from Arkansas, Ohio State (The Wheeler Prize), Michigan State (The Wheelbarrow Books Prize), BkMk, Lynx House, Jacar (Poetry Prize), and Stephen F. Austin (SFA Press Prize).

Other poems by Gary Fincke in Verse Daily:
October 3, 2020:   "Assessing the Dead" "When Gettysburg's dead, years buried..."
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

About The Mussolini Diaries:

"The spirit of Dr. Strangelove is alive and well in this funny trenchant, absurdist work of fiction from gifted satirist Jack Smith."
—Christine Sneed

"In reading Mark Cox's finely rendered Sorrow Bread, I was struck how often the poems live up, unambiguously, even relentlessly, to its title. They offer us sorrow and regret, and as in the title poem, pose a central question, 'What do you do when there's nothing you can do, but/you can't do nothing?"
—Stephen Dunn