Professor Tom Fink--member of LaGuardia's English Department since 1981--regularly teaches ENG 101, 102, 270 (Introduction to Poetry), and Introduction to Literary Study, and sometimes teaches the Teaching Practicum for CUNY Grad students. He is the author of two books of criticism, including "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth Century U.S. Poetry (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickison University Press, 2001),and six books of poetry, most recently Clarity and Other Poems (Marsh HawkPress, 2008) and Autopsy Turvy, a book of poems coauthored with Maya Diablo Mason (Meritage Press, 2010), as well as an e-chapbook and two chapbooks that appeared in 2009. In 2011, Marsh Hawk Press will publish Peace Conference.  Fink is the co-editor of Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007) and Literature Around the Globe (Dubuque,IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994). His poem, "Yinglish Strophes IX," was chosen by Heather McHugh and David Lehman for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's).He has published over 180 reviews, interviews, and articles in numerous journals, including Contemporary Literature, Barrow Street, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Exchange Values,Jacket, Minnesota Review, Milk, Otoliths, Slope, Talisman, Twentieth Century Literature, Verse, and Word for/ Word.

Schools Attended: Princeton University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)

Area of Specialization: Contemporary U.S. Poetry

Books of Poetry: Clarity and Other Poems. East Rockaway, NY: Marsh Hawk Press, 2008.
No Appointment Necessary. Chicago: Moria Poetry, 2006.
After Taxes. East Rockaway, NY: Marsh Hawk Press, 2004.
Gossip: a Book of Poems. New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2001.
Surprise Visit. New York: Domestic Press, 1993.

Books of Criticism: "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. (Includes analysis of the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Melvin Dixon, Denise Duhamel, Martin Espada, Carolyn Forche, Joseph Lease, Stephen Paul Miller, Thylias Moss, and John Yau.)

The Poetry of David Shapiro. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. Co-Ed. with Joseph Lease. "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. Co-Ed. with Tuzyline Jita Allan. Literature around the Globe. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994.

Poetry Chapbooks: Generic Whistle-Stop. Brooklyn, NY: Portable Press at YoYo Labs, 2009.
Staccato Landmark. Chicago: Beard of Bees, 2006.

Articles: "David Shapiro." Contemporary Jewish American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 542-8.

"Ammons: Garbage." 11-2; "Mark Strand." 703-5. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Eric L. Haralson. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

"Between/After Language Poetry and the New York School." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. (2002): 23-26.

"Joseph Lease and Thomas Fink: Narrative and Critique." The Possum Pouch (Fall/Winter 2002-2003). 38.2 (Summer 2003): 89-92.

"David Shapiro's 'Possibilist' Poetry." Jacket 23 (November 2003).

"Poetry, Charm, and More: Billy Collins and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 27 (Winter 2003): 100-107.

"'No Other Sentence Could Have Followed This': Ron Silliman's Tjanting." Titanic Operas, Folio Two (2004).

Entries on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (42-43), Robert Creeley (107-109), Denise Duhamel (139), and John Yau (534-535). The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Checkmark Books, 2005.

"Interview with Sheila E. Murphy." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 73-87. Originally published on-line, Mar. 2005.
"Interview with Stephen Paul Miller." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 203-229. Originally published on-line, Oct. 2005.

"Interview with Michael Heller." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Second XV Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 27-36. Originally published on-line, Jan. 2006.
"Andrew Joron's Fathom." 26 E (2006): 221-230.

"Interview with Denise Duhamel and Nick Carbo." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Second XV Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 243-52. Originally published on-line, Sept. 2006.

"On Geoffrey O'Brien's Red Sky Café." Denver Quarterly 41.1 (2006): 19-22. With Crag Hill. "Interview" (of Tom Beckett). In Tom Beckett. Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978-2006. St. Helena, CA: Meritage Press, 2006. 162-179.

"Transgression, Confession, and Flagrant Multiplicity in the Poetry of Timothy Liu." Slope 24 (Winter 2007).

"Interview with Joseph Lease." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (August 2007).

"Uncanny Narrative in Shapiro's A Burning Interior." "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 123-137.

"Interview with Noah Eli Gordon.". E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (Oct. 2007).

"The Poetry of Questions." Jacket 34 (Oct. 2007).

"Poetry Interrogating Itself: Sheila E. Murphy's The Case of the Lost Objective (Case)." Critiphoria 1 (Feb. 2008).

"Interview with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs." Galatea Resurrects 10 (July 2008).

"The Poetry of Mark Young." In Mark Young, Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008. Ed. Thomas Fink. St. Helena, CA: Meritage, 2008. 17-36.

"Introduction." Jack Lynch, Manhattan Man and Other Poems. New York: Reed & Quill P, 2008. 1-5.

Interview: Tom Beckett. "Interview with Thomas Fink." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 29-47. Originally published online, Jan. 2005.

Poetry Anthology Inclusions: The First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Ed. Jean Vengua & Mark Young. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, 2005. 27-28.

Collaborative poems with Timothy Liu in Saints of Hysteria: A Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Ed. Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull P, 2007. 246-247.

Long Island Sounds Anthology. Ed. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan. Southampton, NY: North Sea Poetry Scene P, 2007. 119-120.

The Best American Poetry. Ed. Heather McHugh and David Lehman. New York: Scribner's, 2007. 35.

Collaborative poem with Tom Beckett in >2: An Anthology of New Collaborative Poetry. Ed. Sheila E. Murphy and M.L. Weber. Colorado Springs, CO: SugarMule.com P, 2007. 208-211.

The Second Hay(na)ku Anthology. Ed. Jean Vengua & Mark Young. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, forthcoming, 2008.