Selected Poems & Poetic Series

Poetry. Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and ‘tactful oomph.’–Denise Duhamel

If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe…But if you want plain speech that dances like fleas on a hot griddle, you’ve come to the right place…Everyone in our family, whatever that is, is a martian; now we need to listen to what they are saying. Tom Fink does that and more.–John Yau

PEACE CONFERENCE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) is a remarkable collection of poems which encourages one to read, reread, and finally participate in the construction of a poetic space that liberates as much as it channels emotional flow.–Susan Smith Nash

My admiration of Tom Fink’s poetry is enormous.. The ‘Dusk Bowl Intimacies’ represent a triumph in contemporary poetry.–Sheila E. Murphy