Poetry
Mission Statements and Trojan Panopticon contemporary
Five poems from the Mission Statement and Trojan Panopticon sequences break the sentence of management—hostages, algorithms, coverage, loyalty—until the line itself comes apart.
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Fink, Thomas
American poet and literary critic (b. 1954), professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. His books of poetry include Selected Poems & Poetic Series (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016), Zeugma (Marsh Hawk Press, 2022), and Or Current Resident (Marsh Hawk Press, 2025). “Yinglish Strophes 9” appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007. His criticism includes “A Different Sense of Power”, and he edits the interview zine Dichtung Yammer.