Gary Fincke’s newest collection, The Infinity Room, won the Wheelbarrow Books Prize for Established Poets (Michigan State, 2019). Earlier collections have been published by Arkansas, Ohio State (2003, OSU/The Journal Prize), BkMk, Zoland, Stephen F. Austin (2011, SFA Prize), and Jacar (2015 Book Prize). Other book-length work has won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Robert C. Jones Prize, and the Elixir Press Fiction Prize.
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A day without news. Left behind,
last night’s lead story – a friend’s
untimely death, his son surviving
the head-on two miles from home.
This evening, my ne…